Senior Director Technology in Kent

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 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.

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.

We offer a package that includes 25 days annual leave per annum, a hybrid working model, pension contribution, private medical, life assurance and personal travel insurance. We are an equal opportunity 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.