Job Specifications
Department
JOB DESCRIPTION
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
The Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer supports the Cybersecurity Accelerate Team andassistsin Cybersecurity Observability and Automation by focusing ondesigning and building enterprise cloud infrastructure automation, pipelines, and cloud capabilities for services on AWS.TheyllpartnerwithApplication,Security, andArchitectureTeams to build re-usable and secure cloud infrastructure to be used by business applications.The Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer is askilled communicatorexcited to supportand ongoing operations of new and emerging technology platforms.
Additional Details
This role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel fortrainings, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of thoserequiredvisits,the majority ofyour working time may be spent in an approved remote location, away from our Corporate Campus. Please note, while this is a remote position, there islimitedgroup of states or localities ineligible for Employees to regularly perform their work off-site. Those ineligible locationsare:Alaska, Delaware, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, WestVirginia, andWyoming, and Puerto Rico.
U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S.requiredand no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.
Werecommitted to fair hiring practices and to making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics.
Responsibilities
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
Understand technical architectures 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 and standards to ensure high quality and quantity of work
Establish or follow prioritization processes to drive work with a sense of urgency about getting work completed
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 your teams to ensure design best practices
Maintain business continuity and disaster recovery processes
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
Ability to understand AWS compute, data sources, security technologies
Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IAC)
Skilled in deployment strategies using Docker for containerization
Ability to understand 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
Ability to anticipate business needs and lead a team towards identifying and solving cross-domain problems
Skilled in automated testing solutions for unit testing, integration testing and system testing
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 such as Chef, puppet, Ansible
Education
Required: High School Diploma or GED
Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information systems or similar fields of study or equivalent advanced level experience
Experience
Required: Advanced-level experience, seasoned and specialized knowledge in Cloud software or DevOps
Preferred: Experience inTerraform,Terragrunt,Terratest,GoLang,GoReleaser, GitLab, Nexus, ECR, Helm, EKS, Containers, Cloud Formation, Python, Cloud Common Platform, AWS Cloud, Ping, CyberArk,andOTEL
Preferred:ExperienceinAWSArchitecture and Security certification
Licensing/Certification
N/A
Physical Abilities
Ability to perform w