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Vice President, Cloud Platform and Operations

Flyr

Operations

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Posted on Feb 28, 2025

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Our Vision

We believe in a world where travel companies can innovate freely, growing and accelerating their business, while delivering the experience travelers want and the change the industry needs.

FLYR is a technology company that unlocks freedom to innovate for the travel industry – eliminating legacy constraints to enable real-time decision making and create the experiences travelers seek. With FLYR, businesses are able to improve revenue performance and modernize the e-commerce experience through accurate forecasting, automation, and analytics.

Flight Itinerary (About The Role)

We are seeking a Vice President of Cloud Platform and Operations to lead our transformation toward a unified cloud strategy while ensuring the resilience, scalability, and security of our mission-critical airline solutions. This role requires a strategic leader who can drive operational excellence, optimize cloud costs, and lead high-impact initiatives, including AI-driven automation, compliance, and customer trust-building.

As a key executive reporting directly to the CTO, the VP will own cloud operations, vendor relationships, site reliability, compliance, and incident/change management, ensuring 99.99% availability for millions of travelers worldwide. This is a high-impact leadership role with full executive backing to shape the future of our cloud platform.

What Your Journey Will Look Like (Responsibilities)

Cloud Strategy & Transformation

Lead the company’s cloud unification strategy, transitioning from a multi-cloud to a single cloud platform.
Architect and execute highly available, scalable, and cost-efficient cloud solutions.
Evaluate emerging AI-driven cloud operations models and drive automation across cloud infrastructure.

Cloud Operations & SRE

Strengthen and mature the cloud operations and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) function.
Implement observability, monitoring, and proactive incident response strategies.
Drive continuous performance, uptime, and disaster recovery improvements.
Ensure the organization meets 99.99% availability SLAs for mission-critical airline solutions.

Security, Compliance & Risk Management

Enforce ISO 27001 and other compliance standards, ensuring regulatory alignment.
Implement robust security frameworks, including zero-trust architectures and data protection policies.
Drive risk mitigation strategies for cloud security, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance.

CI/CD & DevOps Excellence

Improve and scale CI/CD pipelines to ensure efficient, resilient, and fully automated deployments.
Enhance infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and DevOps practices to reduce downtime and deployment risks.
Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation across the DevOps ecosystem.

Vendor & Cost Management

Own cloud spend management and optimize a multi-million-dollar cloud infrastructure budget.
Negotiate and manage strategic vendor relationships with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) and third-party services.
Drive cost efficiency initiatives, including FinOps practices and cloud resource optimization.

Customer Engagement & Trust-Building

Lead Incident and Change Management processes, ensuring transparent communication with customers.
Engage directly with airline customers to consult, build trust, and address cloud operations concerns.
Define and enforce customer SLAs, performance metrics, and operational excellence standards.

Leadership & Organizational Growth

Assess and design a scalable cloud operations team structure that aligns with company growth ambitions.
Build, mentor, and lead high-performing teams in SRE, DevOps, and Cloud Platform Engineering.
Drive a culture of innovation, leveraging AI and automation to disrupt legacy cloud operations models.

What To Pack For This Trip (Qualifications)

10+ years of experience in Cloud Infrastructure, SRE, or Platform Engineering, with 5+ years in executive leadership (VP/Senior Director level).
Proven success in migrating multi-cloud environments to a unified cloud strategy.
Expertise in high-availability (99.99%+ uptime) cloud architectures supporting mission-critical applications.
Strong knowledge of SOC2, ISO 27001, GDPR, and airline industry compliance.
Hands-on experience with AI-driven automation, cloud cost management, and security frameworks.
Deep expertise in CI/CD, DevOps, Kubernetes, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Proven ability to own and optimize cloud spend in the millions, managing cloud vendor negotiations.

First-Class Amenities

Regular employment contract
Equity in Series D startup with high growth potential
Flexible working hours
Complimentary Breakfast/Lunch (in-office)
Gym in the office building
Pension Plan
Top-quality tech equipment
Annual educational fund
Many more!

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Our Commitment to Equality

Here at FLYR, we’re committed to growing with intention, having our teams better reflect the world around us. We strive to create an environment of inclusion and even more importantly, belonging, where psychological safety, empathy, and human connection are at the center of our leadership principles. Not only does this enable us to create better products and have a better work environment, it’s good for the bottom line and it’s the right thing to do.

FLYR provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetics, marital or veteran status. In addition to federal law requirements, FLYR complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company operates.

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