Department:
Technology
Our Company Promise
We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.
Job Description:
Job Summary
All of Southwest’s People come together to deliver on our Purpose; Connecting People to what’s important in their lives through friendly, reliable, and low-cost air travel. The Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer supports our Purpose by designing and building enterprise cloud infrastructure automation, pipelines, and cloud capabilitiesforservicesonAWS.This role will partner with application, security, and architecture Teams to build re-usable and secure cloud infrastructure to be used by business applications. The Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer is an innovative thinker who is excited to play a part in shaping the future of cloud infrastructure at Southwest.
This role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel for training, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of those required visits, the majority of your working time may be spent in a remote location, away from our Corporate Campus. Please note, while this is a remote position, there is a limited group of states or localities ineligible for Employees to regularly perform their work. Those ineligible locations are: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Washington and Wyoming
U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.
Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We continue to look for opportunities to reflect the communities we serve, and welcome applicants with diverse thoughts, backgrounds, and experiences.
Responsibilities
- Evaluate cloud services and architecture to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
- Implement automation tools and frameworks for automatic code deployment (CI/CD)
- Work with the development team to deploy and manage tools that support SDLC automation, configuration management, and release management
- Understand technical architectures with automation to support complex delivery across a wide range of digital and enterprise applications
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of cloud infrastructure
- Establish and/or follow procedures and standards to ensure high quality and quantity of work
- Establish or follow prioritization processes to drive work with a sense of urgency about getting work completed
- Consult with stakeholders to specify requirements and solutions which address business challenges and opportunities
- Serve as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure, performing design reviews and consulting with your teams to ensure design best practices
- Maintain business continuity and disaster recovery processes
- May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Knowledge of AWS Infrastructure as a Service Automation tools like Cloud Formation
- Ability to understand AWS compute, data sources, security technologies
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IAC)
- Skilled in deployment strategies using Docker for containerization
- Ability to understand the monitoring and management of the build and deployment processes and infrastructure
- Ability to analyze services to ensure security best practices are followed
- Ability to mentor and guide team members' learning, including introducing new ideas and technologies
- Ability to anticipate business needs and lead a team towards identifying and solving cross-domain problems
- Skilled in automated testing solutions for unit testing, integration testing and system testing
- Technical Tools
- Common automation tools such as Stash, Git, Nexus, Jenkins, Gradle, Groovy, and YML
- Docker, Serverless, ECS, Kubernetes
- Python, ANT, Artifactory, Groovy, Maven, MS Build, Nexus, NuGet.
- Continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, TFS, TeamCity or Bamboo
- Configuration management tools such as Chef, puppet, Ansible
- Education
- Required: High School Diploma or GED
- Required: Bachelor's Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field; or equivalent formal training
- Experience
- Required: Advanced-level experience, seasoned and specialized knowledge in Cloud software or DevOps
- Licensing/Certification
- Physical Abilities
- Ability to perform work duties from [limited space work station/desk/office area] for extended periods of time
- Ability to communicate and interact with others in the English language to meet the demands of the job
- Ability to use a computer and other office productivity tools with sufficient speed and accuracy to meet the demands of the job
- Other Qualifications
- Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines
- Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must be able to comply with Company attendance standards as described in established guidelines
- Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines
- Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must be able to comply with Company attendance standards as described in established guidelines
- Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines
- Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Must be able to comply with Company attendance standards as described in established guidelines
Pay & Benefits:
Competitive market salary from $144,200 per year to $160,200 per year * depending on qualifications and experience. For eligible Leadership and individual contributor roles, additional bonus opportunities are available and awarded at the discretion of the Company.
Benefits you’ll love:
Fly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on all Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too)
Up to a 9.3% 401(k) Company match, dollar for dollar, of your eligible pay, per paycheck**
Potential for annual Profit-sharing contribution toward retirement - when Southwest profits, you profit***
Explore more Benefits you’ll love: https://careers.southwestair.com/benefits
*Pay amount doesn’t guarantee employment for any particular period of time
**401(k) match contributions are subject to the plan’s vesting schedule and applicable IRS limits
***Profit-sharing contributions are subject to plan’s vesting schedule and are made at the discretion of the Company***
Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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