Cloud DevOps Engineer Global - DevOps Tooling & Pipelines

Department:

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:

At Southwest Airlines, we believe that flying should feel like freedom. For over 50 years, we’ve been connecting people to what matters most with low fares, legendary hospitality, and a heart for service. Our culture is built on the principles of fun, friendliness, and family, making us one of the most admired workplaces in the world.

If you’re passionate about making a difference, love working in a fast-paced environment, and want to help millions of travelers reach their destinations with a smile, Southwest Airlines is the place for you. Here, your career can truly take flight.

Southwest’s DevOps Tooling & Pipelines Pod builds and runs the platforms that help teams create, secure, store, and deploy software. Its enterprise services include Nexus Repository, SonarQube, Amazon ECR, CI/CD pipelines, cloud-native deployment platforms, and automation that accelerates delivery while strengthening software supply chain controls.

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.

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

Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training

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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