Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer

Talent & Org Strategy

We are committed to providing 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.

Employer: Southwest Airlines Co.

Location: Dallas, TX (hybrid role, may work from home)

Duties:

Design and build enterprise cloud infrastructure automation, pipelines, and cloud capabilities for services on AWS; partner with application, security, and architecture teams to build reusable and secure cloud infrastructure; 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 software development life cycle automation, configuration management, and release management; understand technical architecture 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, standards, and prioritization processes; consult with stakeholders to specify requirements and solutions which address business challenges and opportunities; serve as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure, perform design reviews and consult with teams to ensure design best practices; maintain business continuity and disaster recovery processes.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or foreign equivalent degree in Computer Science, Computer or Electronic Engineering, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or a related field, and 5 years of progressive, post-baccalaureate experience in the job offered or as a Software Engineer, Applications Developer, DevOps Engineer, or in a related/similar position.
• Experience therein to include 5 years in code development, unit testing, and code review for business applications, developing cloud microservices, legacy back-end services, and AWS Cloud Infrastructure as a Service including Kubernetes, VPC, Lambdas, and API Gateway; 5 years using Java, Python, React, and JavaScript, building containerized solutions using Docker or Podman, and developing CI/CD solutions in GitLab pipelines; and 3 years in developing metrics and observability solutions to measure performance using Grafana, CloudWatch, and Prometheus, and building applications using infrastructure-as-code (IAC) such as Terraform.

Hybrid role, ability to work from home.

Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.