As Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer, you’ll design, build, and operate production-grade DevSecOps capabilities that improve both security and developer productivity. You’ll apply deep experience with Git-based pipelines, AWS cloud engineering, Docker and Kubernetes or ECS, Terraform or CloudFormation, and security practices such as SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets management, vulnerability management, and RBAC. You’ll also solve reliability, observability, performance, high-availability, and disaster-recovery challenges across large-scale engineering platforms.
Focus on designing and building 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 to be used by business applications. Operate in a DevOps culture and team, responsible for architecture, design, development, implementation, and ongoing operations of new and emerging technology platforms.
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
Education
Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training
Experience
Required: Advanced-level experience, seasoned and specialized knowledge in Cloud software or DevOps
5-7 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
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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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