Director, Core Infrastructure

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: Two days in-office.

Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you re in the right place.

Why this job s a big deal

As a Director in Infrastructure & Operations within our Product Operating Model (POM), you ll lead Mumbai platform teams delivering GCP compute, core networking, and foundational services that every product portfolio depends on reducing handoffs, increasing speed, and building in quality at scale.

In this role you will get to:

• Lead Mumbai execution for our GCP compute platform: multi region GKE clusters and GCE fleets, autoscaling and capacity planning, hardened images/patch pipelines, upgrades, SLOs, and production runbooks.

• Drive Cloud Development enablement: define reusable Terraform modules, standardize GitHub Actions workflows, and operate GitOps (FluxCD) for infra and cluster resources; enforce PR based change management and drift detection for safe, auditable infra changes.

• Own platform Networking scope in partnership with the global team: VPC architecture and subnetting, firewall policies, routing, private service access, secure ingress/egress via Google load balancers, and resilient hybrid connectivity (cloud to cloud and on prem) aligned to enterprise standards.

• Operate core shared infra services that underpin platform workloads (e.g., DNS, NTP, backups/recovery orchestration, SMTP/SFTP) and their integrations with compute and network primitives.

• Database scope: coordinate with the DBA platform for provisioning/operations of managed services (e.g., Cloud SQL, AlloyDB, Spanner, Redis, MongoDB Atlas, Cassandra) used by platform and product teams; set readiness and escalation contracts to meet availability and recovery objectives.

• Partner with SRE, SRO, and Developer Platform to embed reliability by design: production readiness, runbooks, canary/rollback patterns, incident/change interfaces, and observability hooks for platform components in Mumbai.

• Improve platform outcomes for your scope: availability/SLO attainment, MTTR for infra incidents, change failure rate, adoption of golden paths/modules, cycle time for infra changes, and cloud efficiency for GKE/GCE and network/data services.

• Lead 3-4 managers/leads and their teams in Mumbai; hire, coach, and develop talent, reinforcing values aligned leadership and an inclusive, high accountability culture.

Who you are:

• 12+ years in infrastructure/platform engineering with 3+ years managing managers/leads; deep experience operating GCP (GKE/GCE) and modern cloud operating models.

• Hands on depth in Terraform, GitHub Actions, FluxCD/GitOps, Kubernetes lifecycle (cluster and node pool design, autoscaling, upgrades, spot/cost strategies), and GCP IAM/guardrails.

• Proven history of productizing platform capabilities golden paths, standards, reusable modules with adoption KPIs to reduce cognitive load and improve developer throughput.

• Strong stakeholder communication and follow the sun coordination with SRE/SRO/Dev Platform and Network/DBA counterparts, delivering predictably within the POM.

Nice to have:

• GCP networking depth (VPCs, firewalls, gateways, private service access), Google load balancers (GCLB/GALB), and service mesh/API gateway patterns; familiarity with observability stacks (New Relic, Splunk, ClickHouse).

• Experience with policy controls (e.g., OPA/Gatekeeper), artifact/secrets management, and cloud cost/FinOps for container and compute platforms.

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Our success as one of the biggest players in online travel is all thanks to our incredible, dedicated team of talented employees. Priceliners are focused on being the best travel deal makers in the world, motivated by our passion to help everyone experience the moments that matter most in their lives. Whether it s a dream vacation, your cousin s graduation, or your best friend s wedding - we make travel affordable and accessible to our customers.

Our culture is unique and inspiring (that s what our employees tell us). We re a grown-up, startup. We deliver the excitement of a new venture, without the struggles and chaos that can come with a business that hasn t stabilized.

We re on the cutting edge of innovative technologies. We keep the customer at the center of all that we do. Our ability to meet their needs relies on the strength of a workforce as diverse as the customers we serve. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

Priceline is part of the Booking Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: BKNG) family of companies, a highly profitable global online travel company with a market capitalization of over $80 billion. Our sister companies include Booking.com, BookingGo, Agoda, Kayak and OpenTable.

If you want to be part of something truly special, check us out!

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