Senior Director, Cloud Platform & AI Engineering

Travelport; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave per annum

Hybrid working model

Pension contribution

Private medical

Life assurance

Personal travel insurance

Job summary

Travelport is seeking a Senior Director of Cloud Engineering to lead the cloud engineering strategy behind Travelport’s next‑generation platform. You will oversee AWS environments, automation, observability, security and cost control, guiding cross‑functional teams to scale AI and data workloads responsibly.

The role requires senior leadership capability, deep AWS expertise, and the ability to simplify complex platforms while delivering reliable infrastructure for high‑scale production systems.

Qualifications

• You’ve led cloud engineering, platform engineering or infrastructure engineering teams running high-scale production systems on AWS.
• 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.

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.

Job description

Travelport is seeking a Senior Director of Cloud Engineering to lead the cloud engineering strategy behind Travelport’s next‑generation platform. You will oversee AWS environments, automation, observability, security and cost control, guiding cross‑functional teams to scale AI and data workloads responsibly.

The role requires senior leadership capability, deep AWS expertise, and the ability to simplify complex platforms while delivering reliable infrastructure for high‑scale production systems.