Lead, DevOps Engineer

Overview

Job Title Lead, Dev Ops Engineer
Summary of the role: Navitaire, a wholly owned Amadeus company delivers industry-leading technology services that enable growth, profitability and innovation to airlines and rail clients worldwide. Offering a full suite of advanced solutions focused on revenue generation and streamlining costs in the areas of reservations, ancillary sales, distribution, e-commerce, revenue management, revenue accounting, and business intelligence. We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Lead Dev Ops Engineer to join our modernization team.

In this role, you will be working as a member of the core modernization team, responsible for build, deployment, and automation of the platform, and capabilities within the platform. Candidate will have hands-on experience automating builds and deployments at scale with agility, while collaborating closely with team members to ensure a reliable, secure, efficient, and scalable process.

• Build a deep understanding of the current state of our build and deployment processes and pipelines
• Design, build, and maintain infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes for the modernization team, helping design out our future automation architecture.
• Support platform and capability deployments in different environment, including troubleshooting issues and implementing fixes.
• Work with cybersecurity team to ensure that our systems are secure and compliant with industry standards and regulations.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation and standards and be able to communicate complex information.
• Mentor and train other members of the team in Dev Ops best practices. Building cross-functional/technical teams & knowledge sharing
• Contribute to planning of resources and budget.

Specific accountabilities: – Own CI/CD pipelines to favor velocity and reliability. Drive built-in quality and security. Ensure improvement of software development processes & release workflows through automation.

• Identify toil, and drive implementation of robust automation.
• Support and ensure security Application (compliance, vulnerability management, dependency management, …)
• Own and optimize the cost of the Application and underlying Software Development Lifecycle.
• Enforce and promote IT service management best practices end to end. Shape Product life cycle and operations
• Promote Dev Ops culture.
• Bridge the gap between all teams working on a product by fostering mutual understanding and cooperation.
• Facilitate cross-functional communication, ensuring everyone is on the same page and working towards common goals.
• Enforce and end-to-end service ownership.
• Drive Dev Ops knowledge sharing in the organization.
• Design and enforce application monitoring of Dev Ops KPIs*.
• Participate in the life of Dev Ops community and/or related communities

• 10 years in IT/Software Engineering, with at least 5 years in Dev Ops
• Experience in cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and modern application deployments
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and monitoring. Tools like Terraform, Ansible.
• Knowledge of networking concepts (VPCs, VPNs, load balancers, DNS, firewalls).
• Strong Knowledge of Containerization and Automation. AKS, Orchestration with Kubernetes, AKS. Helm charts or other templating tools for deploying applications.
• Monitoring & alerting with tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, Datadog, or New Relic.
• Experience with log aggregation and observability.
• Knowledge of security best practices, secrets management
• Strong ADO/Git skills and branching strategies.
• Mentoring and Coaching other Dev Ops Engineers.
• Experience with Micro-Services a plus.
• Experience in AIOps and Agentic AI a plus.

Working at Amadeus, you will find🎯 A critical mission and purpose – At Amadeus, you will be powering the future of travel and pursuing a critical mission and extraordinary purpose.

• 🌎 A truly global DNA – Everything at Amadeus is global, from our people to our business, which translates into our footprint, processes, and culture.
• 🎓 Great opportunities to learn – Learning happens all the time and in many ways at Amadeus, through on-the-job training,…