Director, Cloud Platforms

Position Overview

Travel + Leisure Co. is the world’s leading vacation ownership and travel membership company, with a dynamic and growing portfolio of resort, travel club, and lifestyle travel brands. Our dedicated associates help the company achieve its mission to put the world on vacation. Innovation and growth keep our work interesting and fun. Every day is a chance to learn something new and turn vacation inspiration into exceptional experiences for millions of travelers worldwide.

We are seeking a forward‑thinking Director of Cloud Platforms to lead the strategy, engineering, and operations of our multi‑cloud environment. This role is central to driving innovation, scalability, and reliability across our global operations, with ownership of cloud platform products that enable developer self‑service, automation, and modernized cloud delivery. The Director will guide the evolution of our cloud ecosystem—primarily AWS (75%), with additional footprint in Azure, OCI, and GCP—while leading a distributed team of 8‑12 engineers and partnering closely with our Developer Platform team to accelerate migration to AWS‑native architectures.

• Lead Cloud Operations & Engineering – Oversee daily operations, engineering, governance, and optimization of our multi‑cloud environment. Ensure 99.99%+ platform availability, performance, cost efficiency, and security across AWS, Azure, OCI, and GCP.
• Drive Cloud Product Development – Own the full lifecycle of cloud platform products including self‑service portals, automation frameworks, golden images, and standardized cloud patterns. Build capabilities that improve developer productivity and reduce operational friction.
• Champion Cloud Modernization – Collaborate with Developer Platform and Architecture teams to refactor legacy workloads into scalable, AWS‑native architectures. Lead the migration of on‑premise I&O systems to cloud‑native services and modern operational models.
• Build & Mentor High‑Impact Teams – Manage and develop a high‑performing, primarily remote team of cloud engineers. Foster a Dev Ops/SRE culture including blameless postmortems, automation‑first mindsets, and continuous improvement.
• Strategic Planning & Influence – Contribute to multi‑year cloud strategy, roadmap development, budget planning, and vendor relationships. Ensure compliance with standards and regulations such as SOC 2, GDPR, and internal cloud governance.

• Periodic travel for team alignment and strategic planning sessions. Estimated 5‑10% travel time required.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, or related field—or equivalent experience.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect (preferred).
• Multi‑cloud certifications (nice to have).
• ITIL or Dev Ops certifications (beneficial).
• Demonstrated ability to lead and scale distributed engineering teams.
• Strong strategic and operational mindset with experience driving large‑scale migrations.
• Excellent communication skills across engineering, product, and operations teams.
• Data‑driven decision‑making capabilities with empathy for distributed teams.
• Understanding of SRE principles, zero‑trust security models, and observability best practices.
• Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CDK/Cloud Formation, Pulumi).
• Container orchestration platforms (ECS, Kubernetes/EKS, Docker).
• CI/CD pipeline tools (AWS Code Pipeline, Jenkins, Git Hub Actions).
• Automation scripting languages (Python, Bash).
• Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace).
• AWS services expertise (Lambda, ECS, EC2, S3, RDS, …).
• 10+ years in cloud engineering, cloud platform development, or cloud operations.
• 5+ years leading distributed engineering teams.
• Significant hands‑on AWS experience with proven success modernizing legacy systems.
• Experience building self‑service or platform engineering capabilities.

Experience equivalent to the education requirement may be accepted in lieu of the education requirement.

We offer a diverse range of comprehensive health and welfare benefits to associates who work 30 or more hours per week to meet your needs and support you throughout your career with us. Travel +…