Senior Director | Network Engineering | Atlanta Ga, USA

Travelport is a place of opportunity. It's our incredible team that makes our company great - our people drive our winning culture.

What's Travelport?

Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform that provides easy ways for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travelers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it. We're leading the change; we are the change.

We are on a mission to power the future of travel.

Come and be part of an organization that is committed to building a culture of inclusivity built upon a diverse workforce that is reflective of the communities in which we operate.

What does a great Senior Director of Network Engineering do?

The Director of Engineering at Travelport is responsible for leading and managing the engineering department. This individual will develop strategies, set goals, and ensure projects are completed in alignment with business objectives. This role will collaborate with other departments to meet the organization's overall business objectives. Travelport is a fast-paced and ever-changing technology provider for the travel industry.

Responsibilities include:

Strategic planning - Identify the long-term strategy for the organization and roadmap associated milestones to achieve organization objectives.

Leadership - Capability to analyze the organization, bring people together to drive the business forward.

Design and Support - Manage design of cloud infrastructure, data center and remote location route network environments.

Regulatory compliance - Ensure network architecture meets compliance requirements for PCI/ISO/SOX.

Vendor management - Manage diverse set of vendors to achieve strategic objectives as well as cost reduction goals.

Who we are looking for in this role:

Knowledge - Key technical knowledge requirements: Cloud virtual connectivity, Cisco NXOS and ACI , Arista/Cloud Vision, BGP, SD-WAN, MPLS, Software Defined Networking principles, Load balancing and general security principles.

Experience- Proven ability to work with partners to drive forward operations and special initiatives. Experience deploying network configuration across multiple data centers, and virtual cloud technologies.

Uptime - Ability to thrive in a high-availability environment. Ensure that maintenance activities have vendor engagement, have been documented, tested, and thoroughly vetted for highest uptime. Travelport is a global 24x7 environment.

Professionalism - Ability to identify areas of improvement and build associated business plans to reduce downtime and or costs within the environment.

Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you're likely to succeed if you:

• Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high quality work
• Are excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things
• Take responsibility and own your work
• Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what's been done before
• Ability to manage a highly skilled team in a fast pace environment.

Benefits of working at Travelport
We believe all employees contribute to the success of the company and should be able to share in that success, which is why all jobs are eligible to participate in our bonus program with any payouts being subject to individual and company performance. We offer a comprehensive benefit program that includes medical, dental, vision, employer paid Disability and Basic Life Insurance, Voluntary life options, a competitive 401(k) match, as well as many other voluntary benefits to fit your specific needs. We make health and wellness a priority and offer a generous paid time off policy as well as contributing to our communities with an annual volunteer day off. We also offer a New Child leave policy, where the birthing parent receives 16 weeks of paid time off, and the non-birthing parent receives 8.

Salary Target: $170,000-$200,000
The salary of the finalist(s) selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty, and training.

Interested? We'd love for you to get in touch!

We are an equal opportunities 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.