As Tech Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer, you’ll set technical direction and mentor engineers building the next generation of secure software delivery. You’ll lead architecture and engineering across CI/CD, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes or ECS, and Infrastructure as Code using Terraform or CloudFormation. You’ll drive automated quality gates, software supply chain controls, vulnerability-management capabilities, high availability, disaster recovery, observability, and performance optimization—creating reusable solutions that enable engineers rather than one-off implementations.
A technical lead for a team focused on designing and building enterprise cloud infrastructure automation, pipeline, CI/CD patterns and cloud capabilities for AWS. Focus on overall product implementation with responsibilities that include providing technical guidance for team members, ensuring cost-effectiveness, quality of solution, design, and implementation.
Responsibilities
Work with other leaders to shape, improve and evolve the cloud platform vision and strategy for the future of cloud infrastructure and help manage the adoption process
Operate in a DevOps culture and team, responsible for architecture, design, development, implementation, and ongoing operations of new and emerging technology platforms
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
Create state-of-the-art technical architectures with automation to support complex delivery across a wide range of digital and enterprise applications
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 internal teams to ensure design best practices
Participate in system and acceptance testing to ensure that systems are functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated
Lead, define and clearly communicate technical standards, governance, and compliance for cloud ecosystem
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
Knowledge of 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
Skilled in evaluating, onboarding, and managing new technologies/services/features
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: Expert-level experience, expansive and far-reaching knowledge in Cloud software or DevOps
8-10 years of relevant work-related experience
GitLab pipelines or equivalent
AWS; Docker; Kubernetes; 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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