Senior Platform Engineer

Job Purpose

As a Sr. Cloud Engineer on the Platform Engineering team you operate at the next level of scope depth and influence. Youre a hands-on engineer who also leads multi-product initiatives mentors Cloud Engineers partners with AppDev engineering managers on architectural choices and helps drive Platform Engineerings patching security remediation and reliability discipline across the Cendyn portfolio.

This is the senior-IC track on Platform Engineering. You bring multi-cloud depth lead cross-product programs (large-scale patching campaigns multi-cloud migrations product modernization) and help shape how Platform Engineering consumes golden paths and feeds requirements back to the producer team.

Job responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end execution of multi-product cloud initiatives; partner with Platform Systems EngineeringAppDev and Project Management as needed
• Mentor and unblock Cloud Engineers; conduct paired sessions review their work and grow their cross-cloud breadth
• Own the senior-escalation tier of thePlatform Engineering24x7 rotation; drive incident review RCA and SLO articulation post-incident
• Drive thePlatform Engineeringpatching security remediation program includingcadence scope dashboarding escalation paths
• Partner withAppDevmanagers on architectural design reviews cloud cost reviews and module-adoption roadmaps
• Contribute back to Platform Engineering on module feature requests with concrete use casesparticipatein module-spec reviews
• Apply network/edge configurations per product (Cloudflare Route53 ACM WAF) at portfolio scale; lead any rule-library or domain-strategy work
• Maintain and evolve thePlatform Engineeringknowledge base; ensure runbooks reflect current production reality
• Lead deployment of AI / agentic tooling forPlatform Engineeringoperations pilot and roll out tooling that accelerates infra ops CVE triage and incident response

Required qualifications

• 7 years of hands-on cloud engineering experience
• Production depth in at least two of AWS Azure GCP; working knowledge of the third
• Strong Terraform fluencyyou can read and contribute back to shared-module design
• Demonstrated experience leading multi-product or multi-team initiatives end-to-end
• Track recordmentoring junior and mid-level engineers

• Strong incident-response leadershipyouveled post-incident reviews articulated SLOs and improved on-call rotations
• Depth on at least one of: edge/network engineering (Cloudflare/WAF/DNS) security remediation (CVE programs) or observability engineering (Datadog/OTel)
• Strong written and verbal communicationyourecomfortable presenting to engineering managers and leadership

Preferred qualifications

• Experience driving a portfolio-scale program (patching campaign multi-product migration security audit close-out) end-to-end
• Senior cloud certifications (AWS SAP / DevOps Pro Azure AZ-305 GCP Professional Cloud Architect or similar)
• Experience with one or more of: Cloudflare deep configuration AWS WAF rule libraries hybrid identity (Okta IAM federation) or DBA-adjacent cloud work (Aurora RDS schema migrations)
• Familiarity with FinOps practicescost anomaly investigation RI/SP recommendations tagging strategies
• Public speaking blog posts or open-source contributions related to cloud engineering
• Hospitality or travel-tech domain exposure

Tools and technologies youll work with

• Clouds: AWS (primary across most Cendyn products) AzureandGCP
• IaC: Terraform (module consumer)
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Bitbucket Pipelines Jenkins Bamboo
• Edge / network: Cloudflare AWS WAF Route53 ACM
• Observability: Open Telemetry NOMA(in-house)
• Security: Cycode Rapid7 CrowdStrike Arctic Wolf
• AI tooling: Claude Code AWS DevOps Agentother specialized AI Agents

Work Schedule:

Monday through Friday from 12 PM to 9 PM IST. This will provide healthy overlap between India team and US team and supporting both to ensure adequate collaboration. This role will be working in Hybrid Mode and will require at least 2 days work from office at Hyderabad.

EEO Statement

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