Senior Principal DevOps Engineer

Senior Principal DevOps Engineer

Location: Long Island City, NY, Orlando, FL, Salt Lake City, UT Req ID: 58392 Category: Information Technology

Position Summary: The Senior Principal Engineer, DevOps plays an integral role in implementing and executing cloud practices for build management, product release and operation processes. The role is responsible for managing and automating the build and deployment process and regression testing, building tools and monitoring used in product implementations. The Senior Principal Engineer, DevOps will help in defining, maintaining procedures and tools that are used to deliver releases in a repeatable and scalable manner. This role is a pivotal and highly strategic centered on our highest-risk and operational impactful undertakings.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Provides meaningful impacts to revenue and customer experience through the technical development of the staff and our systems architecture
• Provides immense thought leadership and collaboration into the broader JetBlue organization through empirical analysis
• Offer thought leadership to the broader industry through their successful implementations and design efforts
• Define problems autonomously and proactively own complex features and distributed designs
• Establish and run the processes for on-going maintenance while monitoring support and security patching of a platform
• Automate, support, and ensure Continuous Integration (CI)/Continuous Delivery (CD) in product development
• Collaborate and mentor junior engineers with regards to software release best practices
• Perform code reviews to ensure high quality and consistent coding practices
• Ensure that JetBlue IT and business standards and procedures are maintained in accordance with Company policies and all audit, security, and regulatory requirements
• Work with internal and external Engineering/Security/Operations teams to ensure that the defined standards are met and used throughout all departments
• Be part of the on-call team to help resolve issues with the customer facing and support applications
• Take a significant role in the development of crewmembers to support their engagement, growth, and goal achievement

Minimum Experience and Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline; OR demonstrated capability to perform job responsibilities with a High School Diploma/GED and at least four (4) years of previous related work experience
• Six (6) years of previous experience working with infrastructure and/or development teams to build enterprise-scale application integration solutions
• Six (6) years of experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery process
• Experience architecting and supporting highly available and highly scalable cloud infrastructure like Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform or Amazon AWS
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as PowerShell, Bash, and Python
• Experience with Container orchestration like Kubernetes, Docker
• Vulnerabilities and Patch management
• Proficient in Cloud based software development/management tools (Ansible/Salt Stack, Ruby, Jenkins Pipelines, GitHub, Ubuntu/Centos/RHEL, Terraform, Artifactory or similar)
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like AppDynamics, Sumo Logic or similar
• Knowledge of Release Management Processes including Canary Deployments and Blue/Green
• Able to work flexible hours and be available for emergency response on short notice
• Must pass a pre-employment drug test
• Must be legally eligible to work in the country in which the position is located
• Authorization to work in the US is required. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship

Compensation: The base pay range for this position is between $134,600 and $210,100 per year. Base pay is one component of JetBlue's total compensation package, which may also include performance bonuses, restricted stock units, as well as access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, crewmember stock purchase plan, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, free space available travel on JetBlue, and more.

JetBlue Airways is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis.