Senior Director, Cloud Engineering

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

Travel obsessed? Big tech fan? Hey, you’re in good company. If you want to be part of the industry that makes the world go round, then look no further.

Travelport is the brains behind lots of your travel bookings- plane, car or hotel. Our technology is used to book that magical holiday, infamous bachelorette party or long overdue school reunion. While we can’t solve mosquito bites or lost luggage, we can simplify a lot of the technical parts of travel, and we’re looking for the best thinkers to help us do it.

We’re hiring right now for a Senior Director, Cloud Engineering! Search for #Travelport on LinkedIn and hear from our amazing team.

How you’ll make an impact:

We’re hiring a Senior Director, Cloud Engineering to lead the cloud engineering capability behind Travelport’s next-generation platform. This role needs someone who has built and operated serious AWS environments, understands large-scale systems, and can create the platform conditions for frontier AI products to work in production.

You’ll lead the team that defines the engineering approach for AWS, builds our production AWS platform, and onboards development teams and products to this platform. You’ll be responsible for driving the move to infrastructure as code, account management, automated pipelines, observability, resilience, operating coverage and cost control.

You’ll also help define how the platform supports AI, data engineering and high-scale product demand, including where AWS Bedrock and other AI services can be used responsibly in production.

The role is about making the platform stronger, simpler and ready for what comes next while managing the pipeline of new products that are moving to or being created in AWS.

Your role in action

• 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.

Could this be you?

• You’ve led cloud engineering, platform engineering or infrastructure engineering teams running high-scale production systems on AWS.
• You have strong practical knowledge of distributed systems, infrastructure as code, automated deployment pipelines, cloud security, observability and operational reliability.
• You have managed cloud cost, budget and capacity at scale.
• You understand the engineering choices that drive AWS spend.
• You have enough 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
• You can operate at senior leadership level while staying close enough to the technology to challenge decisions properly.
• You know how to build strong engineering teams, create clear standards and improve delivery without adding unnecessary process.

Discover why our teams love working here:

Where do we start! Our benefits package includes:

• 25 days annual leave per annum
• hybrid working model
• pension contribution
• private medical
• life assurance
• personal travel insurance

Search for #lifeattravelport & for our employee stories on LinkedIn!

We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.