Cloud Platform Engineer 2 (Developer Experience)
Choice Hotels International
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Job summary
Choice Hotels International, Inc. invites applicants for a Cloud Platform Engineer 2 (Developer Experience) in Scottsdale.
The role focuses on enabling software teams with scalable CI/CD, source control tooling, and automation to accelerate delivery across the enterprise. You will build and support CI/CD pipelines (Harness, Jenkins, GitHub Actions), manage Git-based workflows (Bitbucket), and implement IaC using Terraform and AWS CDK.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or 2–3 years of equivalent experience.
- 2–3 years in software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering.
- Experience with enterprise developer tooling and cloud platforms.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Harness, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI.
- Experience with Git-based source control systems (Bitbucket).
- IaC tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK.
- Scripting languages like Python, Groovy, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Working knowledge of AWS and modern deployment practices.
- Understanding of Agile DevOps principles.
- Strong troubleshooting and collaboration skills.
Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and enhance developer platform capabilities to improve delivery speed and reliability.
- Design and support CI/CD solutions using Harness and Jenkins.
- Support source control platforms and engineering workflows with Git.
- Develop automation using Infrastructure as Code and cloud-native tech.
- Collaborate with software teams to improve build, test, deployment, and release processes.
- Implement software supply chain security, code quality, and governance controls.
- Evaluate and operationalize new tools to improve productivity.
- Troubleshoot issues across tooling, pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
- Contribute to standards, reusable patterns, and self-service capabilities.
- Participate in on-call support for platform services.
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Job description
- This role is not eligible for sponsorship AND is four days onsite hybrid at our N. Scottsdale office **
Choice Hotels, one of the world's largest lodging franchisors, has an exciting new opportunity as our Cloud Platform Engineer 2 (Developer Experience) in the Cloud Platform Engineering team. The Developer Experience team designs, builds, and operates the engineering platforms, automation, and tooling that enable software teams to develop, test, secure, and deploy applications efficiently and reliably. As a key member of the team, you will improve the developer experience by building and supporting CI/CD platforms, source control integrations, platform automation, software supply chain security capabilities, and cloud-native services that accelerate delivery across the enterprise.
- Build, maintain, and enhance developer platform capabilities that improve software delivery speed, quality, and reliability.
- Design and support Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) solutions using platforms such as Harness and Jenkins.
- Support source control platforms, repository standards, and engineering workflows using Git and Bitbucket.
- Develop automation using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and cloud-native technologies.
- Partner with software engineering teams to improve build, test, deployment, and release processes.
- Implement and support software supply chain security, code quality, and developer governance controls.
- Evaluate and operationalize new tools and technologies that improve developer productivity and platform capabilities.
- Troubleshoot issues across development tooling, pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and platform services.
- Contribute to engineering standards, reusable patterns, documentation, and self-service capabilities.
- Participate in operational support and on-call activities for critical developer platform services.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field required, or 2-3 years equivalent experience.
- 2-3 years of software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or related technical experience.
- Experience supporting enterprise developer tooling and cloud-based platforms.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms such as Harness, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar technologies.
- Experience with Git-based source control systems, preferably Bitbucket.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or AWS CDK.
- Experience with scripting languages such as Python, Groovy, Bash, or PowerShell.
- Working knowledge of AWS cloud services and modern application deployment practices.
- Understanding of Agile software delivery, DevOps principles, and engineering best practices.
- Strong troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
Tech Savvy: Readily learns, evaluates, and adopts emerging technologies that improve engineering effectiveness.
Collaborates: Builds strong partnerships across engineering and business teams to achieve shared objectives.
Ensures Accountability: Takes ownership of commitments, follows through on deliverables, and consistently delivers quality results.
This is an individual contributor role that will report to the Manager, Cloud Platform Engineering. You will work closely with Software Engineering, Architecture, Information Security, and Infrastructure teams while collaborating with 6-8 peer teammates across the Cloud Platform Engineering organization.
Choice prioritizes our associate wellbeing by offering a comprehensive benefits program that is both competitive and flexible to help you achieve your wellbeing goals - here are just a few:
- Competitive compensation and benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Leave and paid time-off for holidays, vacation, personal, family, volunteer, sick, jury duty, bereavement, military, and religious observance
- Financial benefits for retirement and health savings
- Employee recognition programs
- Discounts at Choice hotels worldwide
Choice Hotels International, Inc. (NYSE: CHH), is one of the largest lodging franchisors in the world. With 7,500 hotels in 45+ countries and territories, we offer a range of high-quality lodging options in the upper upscale, upper midscale, midscale, extended stay, and economy segments. We're the hotel company for those who choose to bet on themselves - the striver, the dreamer, the entrepreneur - because that's who we are, too.
At Choice, we are united by the simple belief that tomorrow will be even better than today - for associates, our company, and our franchisees. At our worldwide corporate headquarters in North Bethesda, Maryland, at our technology center in Scottsdale, Arizona, and through our associates around the globe, every voice is heard and every idea is listened to, no matter what area of the company they come from. We are united in supporting the entrepreneurial dreams of our thousands of franchise owners, which propels us forward - giving our work at Choice a purpose larger than our business.
Our corporate office locations:
North Bethesda, MD - Located at Pike & Rose, our worldwide headquarters is less than 15 miles from Washington, D.C., one block away from the North Bethesda Metro station, with easy access to I-495, complimentary parking, electronic charging stations, restaurants and retail.
Scottsdale, AZ - Located at the northwest corner of Loop 101, the Scottsdale office is home to our technology, eCommerce and customer service organizations, with easy access to complimentary parking, electronic charging stations, restaurants and retail.
Minneapolis, MN - Select roles are based in our Minneapolis office on Highway 394, near the intersection with Highway 100, only five minutes from downtown.
Field/Remote - Select roles designated as field/remote will require associates to work from a home office, connecting virtually with Choice team members and leadership on Zoom, with possible required travel depending on the role.
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