Senior Cloud Platform Director - AWS, AI & Scale | Hybrid

Travelport; Kington Langley; Hybrid; GBP 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Hybrid working model

Pension contribution

Private medical

Life assurance

Personal travel insurance

Job summary

Travelport is seeking a Senior Director, Cloud Engineering to lead the cloud platform strategy on AWS, building scalable production environments and enabling frontier AI products. You will define engineering standards, drive infrastructure as code, and guide on-call and cost controls.

You’ll lead cross-functional teams, partner with Data Strategy and Cyber, scale AI workloads, ensure security and reliability, and design a production-ready platform that supports GenAI at scale.

Qualifications

• Led cloud engineering, platform engineering or infrastructure engineering teams on high-scale production systems on AWS.
• Strong practical knowledge of distributed systems, infrastructure as code, automated deployment pipelines, cloud security, observability and operational reliability.
• Managed cloud cost, budget and capacity at scale.
• Understand engineering choices that drive AWS spend.
• Exposure to AI/ML platform needs, data engineering and cloud data platforms to guide real architecture decisions.
• AWS Bedrock or production GenAI experience would be valuable

Responsibilities

• Lead the cloud engineering strategy for the Travelport platform, with a focus on AWS, automation, resilience, security and cost.
• Build stronger engineering standards for infrastructure as code, CI/CD, AWS account management, platform guardrails and developer enablement.
• Improve the operational model for the platform, including observability, incident response, reliability and 24/7 support coverage.
• Partner with Product and Commercial teams to get ahead of major demand changes, customer commitments and platform capacity decisions.
• Work closely with Data Strategy, Architecture, Infrastructure and Cyber teams to support AI, data lakes, data engineering, identity, security and production GenAI use cases.
• Help define how Travelport scales AI workloads in a cost-aware, secure and reliable way.
• Lead cloud cost management and capacity planning, including the engineering decisions that drive AWS spend.
• Challenge platform norms and simplify where complexity is slowing delivery, increasing risk or adding cost.

Skills

AWS

Cloud leadership

Infrastructure as code

Distributed systems

Cost management

GenAI/AI familiarity

Job description

Travelport is seeking a Senior Director, Cloud Engineering to lead the cloud platform strategy on AWS, building scalable production environments and enabling frontier AI products. You will define engineering standards, drive infrastructure as code, and guide on-call and cost controls.

You’ll lead cross-functional teams, partner with Data Strategy and Cyber, scale AI workloads, ensure security and reliability, and design a production-ready platform that supports GenAI at scale.