Senior Principal DevOps Engineer

JetBlue Airways Corporation•New York, NY

5d•$134,600 - $210,100•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

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
Ability to grasp technical concepts quickly and apply that knowledge to DevOps efforts within the team
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
Available for overnight travel (10%)
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

Nice To Haves

Ten (10) years of experience leading/mentoring team of software engineers
Demonstrated knowledge of working with Content Delivery Network (CDN) Platforms and Content Management System (CMS) Technologies
Experience in managing pipeline tools
Microsoft Certified DevOps Engineer or Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Expert
Demonstrated knowledge of Project Release Management
Effective time management and prioritization skills
Solid team and people management skills
Excellent problem solving and structured thinking skills
Able to work in a highly dynamic team environment

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, operations and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless deployments, proper documentation, and support for applications
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
Other duties as assigned