Senior Director Technology - Cloud Engineering

Travelport; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Travelport seeks a senior cloud/platform engineer to lead the engineering strategy for the AWS-based Travelport platform. You will build and operate production AWS environments, setting standards for infrastructure as code, automation, and cost-conscious scaling across AI, data engineering, and high-scale product workloads.

You will partner with product and commercial teams to plan capacity, ensure security, and deliver reliable 24/7 platform support, while guiding teams through onboarding to

Qualifications

• Proven track record leading cloud/platform engineering on AWS.
• Strong skills in distributed systems and IaC (infrastructure as code).
• Experience with automated deployment pipelines, security, and cost control.

Responsibilities

• Define engineering approach for AWS platform.
• Build production AWS platform and onboard teams/products.
• Drive IaC adoption, account management, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve observability, resilience, and 24/7 support coverage.
• Guide AI/data platform integration and cost-aware scaling.

Skills

AWS

Cloud architecture

CI/CD

Platform engineering

Observability

Cost management

Tools

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Kubernetes

Monitoring/Observability tools

Job description

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.

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Where do we start!

Our benefits package includes:

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

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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.

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