Sr Cloud DevOps Engineer Global - DevOps Tooling & Pipelines

Department Technology

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Job Description About Us

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.

Job Summary

• Southwest’s DevOps Tooling & Pipelines Pod operates the shared platforms behind the enterprise software supply chain. The team supports secure, reliable delivery through Nexus Repository, SonarQube, Amazon ECR, cloud-native platform engineering, CI/CD automation, and developer self-service capabilities used across the technology organization.
• 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:

• 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

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