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 Tech Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer delivers on our Purpose by supporting Cloud Security, focusing on engineering the baseline security of Southwest’s Technology cloud, helping reduce risk while supporting accelerated delivery. This role serves as a technical lead for a Team focused on designing and building enterprise cloud infrastructure automation, pipeline, CI/CD patterns, and cloud capabilities for AWS. The Tech Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer is an organized collaborator with an aptitude to learn who looks forward to driving the future of Technology at Southwest.
The culture of Southwest Airlines means we value the camaraderie, collaboration, and innovation that occurs when we come together and interact face-to-face at our vibrant Corporate Campus. Due to the nature of this role, you would be required to work from our Dallas, TX headquarters facility during business hours.
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
- Work with other leaders to shape, improve and evolve the cloud platform vision and strategy for the future of cloud infrastructure and help manage the adoption process
- Operate in a DevOps culture and team, responsible for architecture, design, development, implementation, and ongoing operations of new and emerging technology platforms
- 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
- Create state-of-the-art technical architectures with automation to support complex delivery across a wide range of digital and enterprise applications
- 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 internal teams to ensure design best practices
- Participate in system and acceptance testing to ensure that systems are functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated
- Lead, define and clearly communicate technical standards, governance, and compliance for cloud ecosystem
- 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
- Knowledge of AWS compute, data sources, security technologies
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IAC)
- Skilled in deployment strategies using Docker for containerization
- Knowledge of 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
- Skilled in evaluating, onboarding, and managing new technologies/services/features
- Ability to anticipate business needs and lead a team towards identifying and solving cross-domain problems
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 like 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: Expert-level experience, expansive and far-reaching knowledge in Cloud software or DevOps
- Preferred: DevSecOps
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
Pay & Benefits:
Competitive market salary from $158,950 per year to $176,600 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)
- Southwest will help fund your Retirement Savings Plan with Company contributions up to 9.3% of your eligible earnings**
- Potential for annual ProfitSharing contribution in the Southwest Retirement Savings Plan- when Southwest profits, you profit***
- Competitive health insurance for you and your eligible dependents (including pets)
- Southwest offers health plan coverage options that start from the very first day of employment. You will have 30 days to select and enroll in your health plan with coverage retroactively available to your first day of employment.
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Explore more Benefits you’ll love: https://careers.southwestair.com/benefits
*Pay amount does not 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 company discretion.
Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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