As Cloud DevOps Engineer, you’ll help build and support secure, reusable platform capabilities across Git-based or Jenkins pipelines, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes or ECS, and Infrastructure as Code. You’ll contribute to automated quality gates, vulnerability and secrets management, access controls, developer self-service, and reliable platform operations. Along the way, you’ll develop hands-on experience solving observability, performance, availability, and deployment challenges that directly affect engineering teams across Southwest.
Design and build enterprise cloud infrastructure automation, pipeline automation and cloud capabilities used by the enterprise. Partner with application, security, and architecture teams to build re-usable and secure cloud infrastructure to be used by business applications. Knowledge of cloud computing industry trends and apply that knowledge to continually innovate and evolve the enterprise cloud platform.
Responsibilities
Operate in a DevOps culture and team, responsible for architecture, design, development, implementation, and ongoing operations of new and emerging technology platforms
Implement automation tools and frameworks for automatic code deployment (CI/CD)
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 and has 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
Participate in system and acceptance testing to ensure that systems are functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated
Test and implement system and enhancements using techniques that preserve system integrity
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
Skilled in monitoring tools
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
Education
Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training
Experience
Required: Intermediate-level experience, fully functioning broad knowledge in Cloud software or DevOps
2-5 years of relevant work-related experience
Git-based CI/CD pipelines
AWS; SAST; DAST;
SCA vulnerability management; secrets management; RBAC; Docker; Kubernetes; EKS; ECS; Terraform; CloudFormation
Preferred
SonarQube
Nexus Repository
JFrog Artifactory
Amazon ECR
SBOM
OSSM
Software supply chain security
Other Qualifications
Must meet confidentiality expectations as to confidential, proprietary and sensitive Company information
Ability to work extended hours as needed
Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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