How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)
Role Overview
This role is responsible for designing, building, and operating a secure, scalable MCP Server Catalog within Backstage, enabling discoverability, governance, and self-service access to MCP servers and tools across AWS environments.
You'll bring deep expertise in cloud-native security architecture, API authentication/authorization, and developer platform engineering. You'll drive the implementation of a centralized MCP catalog experience, from registration and metadata management to access control integration, working with identity systems and existing authorization services to enforce policy at scale.
This is a hands-on role. You'll write production code, contribute architectural guidance, and collaborate across application, infrastructure, identity, and operations teams to deliver secure, resilient platform capabilities for the enterprise.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement a Backstage-based MCP Server Catalog enabling discoverability, metadata management, lifecycle governance, and developer self-service for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and tools.
- Define and implement authentication and authorization patterns for MCP server access across AWS cloud environments, integrating with existing enterprise IAM and authorization services, with consideration for AI agent access models and tool-level permissions.
- Design and develop cloud-native, AI-ready platform components and tooling using clean, efficient, well-documented, and supportable code, supporting scalable LLM and agent integrations.
- Establish enterprise-level architecture for MCP registration, discovery, access control, and usage governance, ensuring alignment with AI platform security and compliance requirements.
- Integrate Backstage with identity providers to support secure, scalable access governance, including support for human users, services, and AI agents.
- Drive continuous improvement and operational maturity for the MCP Catalog platform, including monitoring, reliability, performance, and AI workload observability enhancements.
- Coordinate across infrastructure, application, DevEx, AI platform, and security monitoring teams to ensure secure, compliant, and timely delivery of MCP and AI-enabled solutions.
- Create and maintain comprehensive system documentation for MCP catalog architecture, authorization flows, AI access patterns, installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Define and enforce security standards, governance policies, and access controls for MCP server onboarding, AI tool exposure, and lifecycle management, including risk assessment for model and tool misuse.
- Lead implementation efforts for platform enhancements, upgrades, and AI capability expansion initiatives, including support for evolving MCP specifications and LLM integrations.
- Act as a trusted advisor to leadership on platform security architecture, AI governance trade-offs, and long-term strategy for developer and AI tooling ecosystems.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, providing technical leadership in cloud-native and AI platform design, and supporting organizational and leadership directives.
- Participate in and conduct code reviews to maintain code quality, adherence to coding standards, and knowledge sharing across cloud, platform, and AI-related components.
- Collaborate with teams in the EST timezone one week each month, ensuring effective coordination, knowledge transfer, and support across geographies.
What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)
- 4-7 years of overall IT experience, including 3+ years of hands-on software development experience.
- Hands-on development experience using TypeScript or Java, or Python technologies
- Hands-on development experience with technologies ReactJS or related framework
- Strong understanding of APIs, microservices architectures, Micro-frontend architecture, and platform engineering principles, including developer productivity and self-service enablement.
- Demonstrated experience with AWS cloud services, including: AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK),CI/CD tooling and pipeline automation,AWS Serverless Application Model (SAM),AWS CloudFormation,Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices.
- Experience building, extending, or operating internal developer platforms (IDPs), service catalogs, or developer portals (e.g., Backstage or similar).
- Experience with MCP architecture patterns, including secure tool/server onboarding, discovery, lifecycle management, and governance for AI-enabled platforms.
- Experience designing and implementing authentication and authorization systems for APIs, including token-based access, role-based access control, and service-to-service authentication.
- Experience deploying, operating, and supporting Red Hat OpenShift on AWS for high-traffic, production-grade workloads.
- Strong knowledge of high-availability, failover, and disaster-recovery patterns in distributed systems.
- Proven experience building resilient, scalable, cross-region AWS applications.
- Knowledge of automated testing frameworks, CI-integrated quality gates, and secure coding standards.
- Proficiency with Git-based source control systems (Gitlab or equivalent).
- Experience working in Agile development environments, including sprint planning, reviews, and continuous delivery.
- Working knowledge of 12-factor application principles and cloud-native best practices.
- Strong background in cloud-native and platform architectures, including containerized and serverless systems.
- Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly across engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
- Familiarity with IAM principles for authentication, authorization, and least-privilege access design.
- Consistent commitment to security, safety, compliance, and protection of sensitive and regulated data, including AI and platform-related risks.
Behavioral Competencies
- Ability to produce high quality results, work in a collaborative environment by embracing diverse perspectives and with a solution-based approach.
- Adapt communication clearly and concisely based on team dynamics and expresses thoughts & ideas effectively.
- Ability to engage effectively with peers and stakeholders to build trust and reliable working relationships.
- Ability to understand business processes, implement innovative solutions, guide juniors on continuous improvement by constantly updating oneself on current technology & trends.
- Inquisitive to understand customer and business expectations while creating value addition on technical solutions.
What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications)
- Experience across multiple IT domains, including application development, infrastructure, operations, technical support, or business continuity.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
About The Company
What started as a humble, little aerial crop-dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters in 1924 has now grown into the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability, and customer experience. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Delta Air Lines is known for its operational excellence and award-winning customer service.
Powered by our employees worldwide, Delta has led the airline industry in operational excellence for a decade while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world and serve as a force for social good.
In 2026, Delta Air Lines continued to earn global recognition for its performance, culture and operational excellence. Delta was named to Glassdoor's 2026 Top 100 Best Places to Work list for the ninth time, standing as the only airline recognized. Delta also secured the 11th spot on Fortune's World's Most Admired Companies list, marking its 13th consecutive year earning this distinction. Delta was also recognized by Cirium as the top on-time airline in North America for the fifth consecutive year, underscoring its unwavering commitment to reliability and customer experience.
About The Delta Technology Hub (DTH), Bangalore
The DTH is one of Delta Air Lines investments in world-class business capabilities and technology aimed at transforming how Delta Air Lines operates and provides world-class travel experiences to its customers through innovation and cutting-edge methodologies. By continuously reimagining processes and driving technology-led transformation, the Delta Technology Hub plays a pivotal role in Scripting The Future Of Aviation. The organization is certified by the Great Place to Work Institute (India). The Delta Technology Hub was a finalist for the iVolunteer Awards 2024/2025 in the Leader in Employee Volunteering category. This nomination highlights our remarkable volunteering initiatives and the outstanding practices we implement to encourage and support our employee volunteering program.
For more information, please visit www.deltatechhub.com
Why join
- Technology is a key enabler of the differentiated services that Delta provides. At the DTH, you get the opportunity to work on projects with a significant impact on business outcomes and customer experience.
- Deepen your knowledge by taking part in multifaceted learning and development programs –exposure to extensive internal and partner repositories, institutional affiliations, and industry SIG (Special Interest Groups) partnerships.
- Immerse yourself in an employee-centric culture.
- Develop deep and broad business acumen on airline operations while retaining focus on cutting-edge technology driven solutions.
- Avail a full range of benefits that support you and your family: Medical Insurance, Transportation to and from the DTH office, Complementary Cafeteria Meals, Special Travel opportunities and Travel Privileges, Car Lease Program, Paid time off, Parental Benefits and National Pension Scheme.
