Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer
About The Position
Southwest Airlines Co. is seeking a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer in Dallas, TX. This hybrid role involves designing and building enterprise cloud infrastructure automation, pipelines, and capabilities on AWS. The engineer will partner with application, security, and architecture teams to create reusable and secure cloud infrastructure, evaluate cloud services, and implement automation tools for CI/CD. Responsibilities include supporting the software development lifecycle automation, configuration management, and release management, understanding technical architecture for complex deliveries, leading cloud infrastructure evolution, establishing procedures and standards, consulting with stakeholders on requirements, serving as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure, performing design reviews, and maintaining 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
- 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
- 5 years in code development, unit testing, and code review for business applications
- 5 years 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
- 5 years building containerized solutions using Docker or Podman
- 5 years developing CI/CD solutions in GitLab pipelines
- 3 years in developing metrics and observability solutions to measure performance using Grafana, CloudWatch, and Prometheus
- 3 years building applications using infrastructure-as-code (IAC) such as Terraform
Responsibilities
- Design and build enterprise cloud infrastructure automation, pipelines, and cloud capabilities for services on AWS
- Partner with application, security, and architecture teams to build re-usable 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
