Tech Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer Global - DevOps Tooling & Pipelines

Department:

Technology

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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 designs and operates the enterprise platforms that power code quality, artifact management, container registries, and secure software delivery. The team owns mission-critical capabilities such as Nexus Repository, SonarQube, and Amazon ECR while building cloud-native automation, reusable platform patterns, and developer self-service at enterprise scale.

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

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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