Booking Holdings Romania - Senior Cloud Engineer

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

Role description

The vision of Cloud Engineering is to provide the capabilities that enable the Booking.com tech community to build and manage world-leading cloud native applications for the online travel market and unlock Connected Trip.

Our mission is to provide the foundation, building blocks, training, security & compliance capabilities, cost management capabilities, enablement & operational support that allow all workloads to be built on one cloud platform in AWS. We will provide a platform and toolset that enables our customers to realize the speed and agility benefits of the AWS platform, providing access to a rich ecosystem of technology services spanning from infrastructure primitives to data and machine learning, to security, quantum computing prototyping, business applications and more.

We will provide great support for our customers through the journey for building on AWS, provide a frictionless onboarding experience that enables builders to build on day one, provide continuous support through our cloud enablement teams who will also continuously maintain and expand the library of building blocks available. We will ensure that public cloud is secure and compliant by default and available for workloads of all regulatory scopes. 

The Cloud Finop’s Engineering team will be heart and soul to that journey,  helping define and drive the adoption of Cloud in a cost conscious manner ensuring that teams get the most out of the AWS offering.  Driving technical solutions to empower teams while providing guardrails and expertise for technical designs.

A Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for the execution and technical implementation of the cloud environment at Booking.com. The Senior Cloud Engineer supports teams transitioning their current public cloud migration from existing environments. This includes assisting teams who have never used cloud before, building tooling, capabilities, and services. Engineers in this role are heavily involved in the FinOps space, helping teams understand the cost-efficiency of cloud engineering through right-sizing, optimal choices, and a mix of technical architecture and design.

Senior Cloud Engineer is also deeply involved in architectural decisions and hands-on work with various programming languages across both infrastructure and some software. The Senior Cloud Engineer is expected to coach and mentor junior engineers and be thought leaders within their teams, ensuring best practices are implemented. Given the varying technical skills and commercial knowledge required across different business units, Senior Cloud Engineer can handle multiple types of work, from product features to infrastructure automation, frameworks, tooling, or services.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

• Is responsible to build software applications by using relevant development languages and applying knowledge of systems, services and tools appropriate for the business area and guide more junior members of the team in this topic (Java, Terraform, CDK, Golang, Node JS, Typescript, C#, GitLab, Harness, CoDeploy, Cloudability, AWS API’s, Artifactory)
• Is responsible to own a service end to end by actively monitoring application health and performance, setting and monitoring relevant metrics and act accordingly when violated
• Is responsible to address and resolve live production issues by mitigating the customer impact within SLA and too improve the overall reliability of systems by producing long term solutions through root cause analysis
• Is responsible to evaluate possible architecture solutions by taking into account cost, business requirements, technology requirements and emerging technologies
• Is responsible to identify opportunities for process, system and structural improvements (i.e performance gains) by examining and evaluating current process flows, methods and standards.
• Is responsible to deliver clear, well-structured, and meaningful information to a target audience by using suitable communication mediums and language tailored to the audience

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor Degree
• 5 - 8 years of relevant experience
• Proficient at building software applications
• Proficient in End to End System Ownership
• Experience in Software Systems Design
• Experience in Architectural Guidance
• Proficient in Technical Incident Management
• Proficient in Technical Leadership
• Proficient in effective Communication
• Proficient in continuous quality improvement
• Proficient in critical thinking
• Familiar with Technical Coaching/Mentoring

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package 
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.