Senior Manager, Platform Engineering
Job Title
Senior Manager, Platform EngineeringJob DescriptionNavitaire, an Amadeus company, are proven innovators in the travel industry shaping the way the world thinks about travel. With more than 50 customers worldwide, including many of the world's most successful hybrid and low-cost airlines, Navitaire offers a unique opportunity to make a large impact on the world of travel.Navitaire is evolving our portfolio of hosted services towards a next-generation modern airline retailing platform aligned to industry offer and order retailing concepts. This transformation is founded in principles of customer-centric value delivery and driven by cloud-first modern engineering practices. We are looking for talented and motivated people with a passion to innovate, collaborate, and learn together to join our team that will shape the evolution of our platform. This is a hybrid position and would require you to be in the local office 2-3 days a week.
Role Summary
Platform Engineering Manager will lead platform and security engineers to drive the evolution of Navitaire's cloud platform on Azure, which serves as the foundation for engineering and product teams to deliver next-generation capabilities to our customers. This is a dynamic role that requires effective communication, collaboration, and direct delivery of the cloud platform, while meeting Navitaire standards to ensure reliability, scalability, and security. Success for this role will be measured on enablement of engineering teams with automation, governance, and federation while promoting continuous improvement within the cloud infrastructure and platform for the Navitaire organization.
Key ResponsibilitiesLeadership and Management
Build, mentor, and manage a team of platform and security engineers.
Set clear goals and expectations, provide regular feedback and performance evaluations.
Foster a collaborative and inclusive team environment, promoting knowledge sharing and professional development.
Work closely with leadership of value delivery teams.
Platform Engineering
Oversee the evolution of Navitaire's Azure cloud platform to enable Navitaire's solution portfolio growth and transformation.
Promote reliability to ensure high availability, scalability, and reliability of the cloud infrastructure by establishing SLO and SLI for platform capabilities and components that support overall SLAs.
Serve as a point of escalation for platform-related issues, providing expert guidance and support, as necessary.
Work closely with cross-functional teams including developers, architects, and product owners to align platform capabilities with business needs.
Champion automation with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates for automated provisioning of platform resources and utilize automation tools such as Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
Establish and optimize Azure costs while providing visibility to teams to understand the cost of the platform.
Enable self-service for platform capabilities to speed up innovation.
Work with Navitaire cyber security team to identify security requirements, conduct assessments, and ensure vulnerability scans, and penetration tests are completed as needed.
Ensure platform team is following industry standards and regulations (e.g., ISO, GDPR, HIPAA.)
Support security incident response procedures in place within the organization.
Bridge knowledge needed to install, configure, monitor, and administer Azure platform to Tier 1 and 2 support teams.About the ideal candidate
B.S degree in Computer Science, or Engineering, or a related field. M.S. degree is a For full info follow application link.We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and seek to hire the best candidate regardle
ss of age, beliefs, disability, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation.