Remote Senior Director, Platform & DevOps Engineering

Travelport; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 210,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus program

401(k) match

Paid time off

Job summary

Travelport is seeking a Senior Director of DevOps to lead platform engineering, developer experience, and engineering productivity across multiple teams. The role emphasizes scalability, reliability, and delivery excellence in a remote US setting.

You will champion modern practices such as DevSecOps, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD automation, shaping standards and partnering with stakeholders to drive business outcomes. A transformative, high-impact leadership opportunity awaits.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of software engineering experience with at least 7+ years leading managers and multiple engineering teams.
• Proven experience leading large-scale engineering transformation initiatives and driving organizational change.
• Strong experience with modern cloud-native architectures, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, and platform engineering practices.
• Experience developing enterprise software solutions using Java and Spring Boot frameworks.
• Experience with deployment automation technologies such as Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, GitOps platforms, or equivalent tooling.
• Deep understanding of software development lifecycle management, testing strategies, observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.
• Experience managing engineering roadmaps, budgets, and cross-functional initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the long-term vision for platform engineering, developer experience, engineering productivity, and software delivery excellence.
• Lead multiple engineering teams responsible for internal developer platforms, automation, tooling, and delivery enablement.
• Establish engineering standards, governance frameworks, and best practices that improve scalability, reliability, security, and delivery velocity.
• Partner with senior technology and business stakeholders to align engineering investments with strategic priorities and measurable business outcomes.
• Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous learning, and operational excellence.
• Lead the development of internal platforms and engineering capabilities that streamline software development, testing, deployment, and operational support.
• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices including DevSecOps, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), CI/CD automation, and platform engineering.
• Create reusable patterns and solutions that accelerate development while reducing complexity and operational risk.
• Establish scalable standards for release management, observability, testing automation, deployment practices, and service reliability.
• Champion developer productivity by improving tooling, workflows, and overall engineering experience.
• Act as a catalyst for engineering modernization initiatives across multiple technology organizations.
• Identify systemic delivery challenges, organizational bottlenecks, and process inefficiencies, implementing scalable solutions that improve outcomes.
• Influence engineering leaders and teams in adopting new technologies, frameworks, and delivery models.
• Build trusted partnerships across Product, Architecture, Infrastructure, Security, and Engineering functions.
• Lead strategic transformation programs focused on engineering maturity, resilience, and operational effectiveness.
• Provide executive-level guidance on software delivery architecture, cloud-native platforms, developer tooling, and automation strategies.
• Partner with technology leaders to improve application performance, scalability, security, reliability, and maintainability.
• Establish best practices for observability, monitoring, deployment automation, integration testing, and cloud optimization.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to continuously advance organizational capabilities.
• Ensure platform and engineering solutions align with enterprise architecture and security standards.

Skills

Java

Spring Boot

Cloud-native architectures

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps

Platform engineering

Kubernetes

Argo CD

GitOps

SRE principles

Tools

Argo CD

Argo Rollouts

GitOps platforms

Job description

Travelport is seeking a Senior Director of DevOps to lead platform engineering, developer experience, and engineering productivity across multiple teams. The role emphasizes scalability, reliability, and delivery excellence in a remote US setting.

You will champion modern practices such as DevSecOps, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD automation, shaping standards and partnering with stakeholders to drive business outcomes. A transformative, high-impact leadership opportunity awaits.