Cloud Platform Engineering Manager

About this role

Job ID: MJ000355As the Engineering Manager for Cloud Platform, you will lead the Traveloka Cloud Platform & Infrastructure Engineering team. Beyond a strong foundation in large-scale cloud-native architecture, you will bring exceptional team management, strategic planning, and cross-border collaboration skills. Working closely with tech leaders across business units, you will directly oversee company-wide system reliability, technical standards, and infrastructure cost decisions to build a high-performing, cohesive platform engineering organization.Key ResponsibilitiesManage and empower the Cloud Platform Engineering team, setting clear team and individual performance goals, providing coaching and career development plans, and continuously raising overall engineering efficiency and team cohesion.Collaborate with executive leadership and business stakeholders to formulate long-term cloud platform technical roadmaps, leading the smooth migration of legacy infrastructure to Kubernetes architecture across public clouds (AWS, GCP, or Alibaba Cloud).Guide the team in maintaining multi-tenant K8s clusters and adopting Terraform/IaC standards across multi-region and multi-cloud environments; make informed technical trade-offs among reliability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency.Lead the team in building platform-level automation and developer self-service tools to streamline application deployment workflows; thoughtfully integrate AI-assisted engineering tools to boost company-wide delivery velocity.Establish and optimize major incident response frameworks and post-mortem procedures, guiding the team to identify architectural and operational bottlenecks and eradicate systemic issues.Qualifications10+ years of experience in cloud platform / infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years in engineering management with a proven track record of managing and mentoring mid-to-senior level engineers.5+ years of hands-on experience in production Kubernetes operations and architecture, with a deep understanding of public cloud container services (e.g., AWS EKS, Alibaba Cloud ACK) and multi-region high-availability architecture design.Demonstrated track record of driving Terraform / Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards across teams; proficient in Go or Python development to guide the team in building developer self-service tools.Strong technical planning and task decomposition skills, with the ability to translate business strategy into actionable technical roadmaps while balancing delivery timelines, architectural quality, and cost optimization.Proven experience acting as an Incident Commander in high-traffic, large-scale consumer-facing environments, with the ability to establish standardized On-call and post-mortem mechanisms.Ability to guide the team in applying AI-assisted tools within engineering workflows (e.g., automation, troubleshooting) while balancing efficiency with risk control and security.Fluent in spoken and written English, capable of seamlessly participating in international technical reviews, cross-departmental meetings, and daily business communication.