Frontier Airlines · 15 hours ago
Sr. Director - Architecture Cloud & Services
Denver, CO
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$179K/yr - $250K/yr
10+ years expFrontier Airlines is committed to offering ‘Low Fares Done Right’ to travelers across various destinations. The Senior Director, Architecture, Cloud & Services, is responsible for leading the strategic direction and management of the company's architecture and cloud services, ensuring effective technology operations and governance.
Service IndustryTourismTransportationTravel
Responsibilities
Lead the development and execution of cloud strategies aligned with business goals
Direct short- and long-term planning for cloud operations and services
Evaluate and enhance the effectiveness, security, and efficiency of existing cloud platforms and IT operations
Own and evolve the company’s application architecture, including data centers, servers, virtual networks, storage, backup, and devops solutions
Collaborate with technology leaders and managers and key business SMEs to help develop and implement a scalable, reliable, and secure enterprise platform which serves as foundation to application solution development at Frontier
Lead the Architecture team responsible for Architecting a scalable and robust network design to support reliable operations
Drive initiatives related to virtualization, VDI, hybrid cloud, and application architecture
Establish and manage service levels for cloud in partnership with business stakeholders and cloud vendors
Lead SLA management, capacity planning, business continuity, and disaster recovery strategies
Maintain compliance with external regulations and internal IT governance policies
Develop and manage a multi-million-dollar budget and drive cost-efficiency
Lead RFP processes, contract negotiations, and infrastructure portfolio management
Monitor and manage cloud availability, capacity, performance, reliability, accessibility, and recoverability
Leverage cloud advantages to increase throughput in delivery and quality
Promote engineering excellence and guide high-level systems and application architecture decisions
Encourage a culture of recognition, development, and continuous improvement within the team
Select, train, and evaluate staff; provide coaching, mentorship, and performance feedback
Communicate management direction, company objectives, and departmental goals to staff
Identify issues and lead development of strategic infrastructure and operations solutions
Actively participate in compliance activities, risk assessments, and audit support
Qualification
Required
10+ years of progressive IT leadership experience, including 5+ years in infrastructure and cloud operations at the director level or above
10+ years of hands-on cloud experience in Azure and/or Cloud
5+ years in EDP evaluations, cost savings, or compute savings experience
Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, or related field (advanced degree preferred or equivalent experience)
Preferred
Airline industry experience is a plus but not required
Designing high-throughput, low-latency, highly available services on AWS/Azure/GCP; multi-cloud or hybrid reference architectures; Kubernetes (EKS/AKS/GKE), container orchestration, and service mesh (e.g., Istio/Linkerd); serverless patterns and eventing (Lambda/Functions/Cloud Functions; SNS/SQS/Event Grid/Pub/Sub; Kafka/Kinesis/Event Hubs); API management and developer platforms (APIM/Apigee/Kong), contract-first APIs, and reusable enterprise services; data architecture for OLTP/streaming (Aurora/CosmosDB/Spanner, Redis/Memcached, BigQuery/Snowflake, CDC/replication); observability (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana, CloudWatch/Cloud Logging/App Insights), SRE practices (SLOs/error budgets), IaC (Terraform/Bicep/CloudFormation), GitOps/CI/CD (GitHub Actions/Azure DevOps/Argo), security/IAM (OIDC/OAuth2, workload identity, KMS/HSM), networking (VPC/VNet design, PrivateLink/peering), DR/multi-region strategies, performance tuning, and FinOps
Experience building and scaling enterprise platforms for broad internal consumption—golden paths, paved roads, self-service portals, and reference implementations—is critical
Benefits
Flight benefits for you and your family to fly on Frontier Airlines.
Buddy passes for your friends so they can experience what makes us so great.
Discounts throughout the travel industry on hotels, car rentals, cruises and vacation packages.
Discounts on cell phone plans, movie tickets, restaurants, luggage and over 2,000 other vendors.
Enjoy a ‘Dress for your Day’ business casual environment.
Flexible work schedules that support work/life balance.
Total Rewards program including a competitive base salary, short term incentives, long-term incentives, paid holidays, 401(k) plan, vacation/sick time and medical/dental/vision insurance that begins the 1st of the month following your hire date.
We play our part to make a difference. The HOPE League, Frontier Airlines’ non-profit organization, is dedicated to providing employees financial assistance during catastrophic hardship.
Company
Frontier Airlines
Frontier Airlines offers group and charter, and cargo transportation services.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
unknown2021-04-01IPO
2013-12-03Acquired
Leadership Team
Howard Diamond
Executive Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs
James Dempsey
President
Recent News
2026-01-22
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