Travelport
Senior Director Technology - Cloud Engineering
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Senior Director, Cloud Engineering (UK or US)
Turn your cloud passion into world-changing travel tech. Travelport powers the digital convergence of plane, car, and hotel bookings—capturing those special moments whether it's a dream holiday, a thrilling bachelorette getaway, or reuniting long-lost school friends. While we haven’t cracked mosquitoes or lost luggage, we’ve cracked the technical complexities behind seamless travel—and we’re looking for the next generation of cloud engineering leaders to keep it that way.
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How You’ll Make an Impact
We’re searching for a Senior Director, Cloud Engineering to steer Travelport’s next-generation platform across cloud engineering mission-critical components. This role demands mastery of AWS environments, large-scale deployment systems, and expertise in setting up conditions for AI products to thrive in scale.
Your responsibilities:
- Lead a cloud engineering capability for AWS, focused on defining our infrastructure, production platform, and enabling development/product teams to leverage it.
- Implement infra-as-code, real-time account management, and automated pipelines while prioritising observability, resilience, operational coverage, and cloud cost control.
- Partner closely with AI, data engineering, and high-scale product demand planning to ensure our technology adapts to Tomorrow’s challenges today. Key considerations: AWS Bedrock, secure AI adoption, and responsible production deployment.
- Champion platform simplification, operational excellence, and operational scaling to support future platform innovations while managing product migration pipelines to AWS.
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Your Role in Action
System Leadership
- Forge the AWS cloud engineering strategy, emphasising automation, resilience, security, and cost-aware platform advancements.
- Establish engineering standards for:
- Infrastructure as code (IaC)
- CI/CD pipelines
- Account management and guardrails
- Developer enablement
Operational Excellence
- Overhaul platform operations to prioritise:
- Observability
- Efficiency in incident response
- Reliability
- 24/7 support coverage
Growth & Strategy Alignment
- Collaborate directly with Product and Commercial teams to plan for customer commitments and platform capacity demands.
- Partner with data and security teams to design AI workflows, secure data lakes, and execute production GenAI solutions responsibly, reliably, and cost-efficiently.
Cost & Strategic Challenge
- Implement cloud cost management via KPIs, engineering, and strategic AWS financial investments.
- Simplify platform cogs by removing inefficient complexity that obscures progress, increases risks, or inflated cloud spend.
Could This Be Your Next Role?
This leadership position thrives on your deep cloud experience transforming production environments strategically. You understand how to mentor teams to orchestrate an unyielding large-scale compute foundation mature enough to scale AI breakthroughs.
Key Requirements
- Proven success as a cloud/infrastructure leadership, steering engineering roles on high-scale AWS systems.
- Hands-on expertise in:
- Distributed systems
- Infrastructure as code (Terraform/IaC experience is valuable)
- Automated deployment pipelines
- Cloud security frameworks
- Observability and operational resilience models
- Cost and capacity management at significant scale.
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Tech-Forward Essentials
- Strong ability to translate leadership priorities into engineering priorities with tactical execution.
- Familiarity with AI/ML platform needs, data-lake architectures, and GenAI execution for production use.
- Encouraged by hands-on exposure to AWS Bedrock or production GenAI, synchronising AI scalability, cost, and security.
Leadership Style
- Engaging enough to mentor teams, setting high standards without bureaucracy overload.
- Cost-conscious innovation—can you make smarter decisions and simplify where complexity is holding progress back?
Why Travelport Stands Out
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We believe in striking a balance between your time, productivity, and happiness:
- 25 days’ annual leave (travel within reason is well-earned!)
- Hybrid working model: Freedom to choose where best to spend your energy.
- Pension contributions designed for long-term security.
- Private medical insurance to keep you healthy.
- Life and personal travel insurance because we value peace of mind.
Work with technology for good
Behind every efficient traveler is a seamless, functional system. At Travelport, we maintain those systems.
Join #Travelport on LinkedIn for employee stories and join our team this journey forward.
Apply now, and let’s make technology—and travel—better together!
**[Equal Opportunities Employer] We value independence, inclusion, and equality. If you need reasonable accommodation (ée. support for disabilities during hiring or work) to fully engage, please contact us to discuss your needs.
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