Manager, Infrastructure Operations

As the Manager of Operations at KAYAK, you will be a pivotal part of our team, responsible for overseeing and optimizing the daily operations of our travel search engines and related services. This role demands a keen eye for detail, strong leadership capabilities, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth, efficient, and high-quality operational processes. The team is skilled in many different engineering departments and works with a DevOps mindset. If the tools don’t exist that meet our needs, we write or script them ourselves. The team has a high impact and works closely with all of the engineering organizations at KAYAK. We strive for efficiency, reliability, and velocity while also exploring new technologies that can bring business value and help us achieve company goals. You will supervise the team that builds and maintains VM and container platforms, manages configuration infrastructure, and oversees CDN and message bus services. They operate data centers, cloud services in AWS, and various SQL and big data solutions while also supporting security efforts.