Director - Platform Systems

October 29

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adventure travel • travel • life experiences • life changing experiences • social media

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1990

💰 Private Equity Round on 2021-02

Description

• Reporting to the VP of Global Technology, the Director of Platform Systems will be responsible for leading the evolution of our current software and infrastructure platforms, as well as building the future versions. • The solutions-oriented individual will direct the Reservation, Operational, and API systems teams to develop a customer-centric platform. • They will be accountable for architecting and scaling the underlying AWS infrastructure. • The candidate will help identify, plan & implement multi-year programs for all practical migrations of applications from future acquisitions, to GTC platforms. • As part of the global Technology leadership, the role will be responsible for the mentorship and growth of manager and staff developer direct reports, as well as collaborate with executive leadership across the organization. • They will help evolve the current organizational structure of distributed teams and lead the strategy of expansion to new offshore locations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software development, ideally with some in travel and tourism or related industries • 5+ years of technical management experience • 5+ years of AWS solutions architecture & services such as S3, ALB, ECS, RDS/Aurora, Elasticache, Lambda, SQS, RabbitMQ • Experience establishing and growing offshore teams • Proficiency with architecting CI/CD, accessible logging, performance monitoring, and issue dashboards using tools such as CircleCI, Datadog, Sentry, Fluent Bit • Operational experience with infrastructure provisioning/configuration tools such as Ansible, Terraform • Strong background in Linux server administration and an understanding of Bash scripting • Familiarity with containerization technologies such as AWS ECS, Kubernetes, Docker • Detailed knowledge of agile development methodologies • Foundation of writing code with the ability to read code in a variety of languages, ideally Python, Go, JavaScript • Fundamental understanding of data modelling and impact on database designs, clustering and replication • Foundational background working and building in an API driven architecture, creating scalability for interconnected systems organization wide • Demonstrated experience engaging with all levels of management including senior level executives and proven ability to manage relationships both horizontally and vertically

Benefits

• Competitive salary commensurate with the role • Competitive benefits package • Birthday day off • Vacation time for you to recharge • Enhanced Parental Leave • Learning and growth opportunities • Employee Resource Groups