Senior Systems Engineer, Platform Operations

at  KAYAK

KAYAK, part of Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG), is the world’s leading travel search engine. With billions of queries across our platforms, we help people find their perfect flight, stay, rental car, cruise, or vacation package. We’re also transforming the in-travel experience with our app and new accommodation software. For more information, visit www.KAYAK.com.
As an employee of KAYAK, you will be part of a global network that includes OpenTable and KAYAK’s portfolio of metasearch brands including Swoodoo, checkfelix, momondo, Cheapflights, Mundi and HotelsCombined. Many employees are dedicated to one brand, but we all have the benefit of using each others strengths and insights. Together, we’re able to help people experience the world through dining and travel.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL:

• Improve our Elasticsearch clusters and tune lifecycle policies
• Implement best practices for our Docker Swarms
• Have a strong familiarity with Apache Airflow best practices
• Learn our existing infrastructure with the goal of joining the on-call rotation

YOU WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Helpdesk queries for laptops, monitors, mice, keyboards, etc
• CI/CD pipelines
• Active Directory and other Windows services
• Database administration or database engineering
• Firewall rules and low level networking configurations