Sr Cloud DevOps Engineer

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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:

The Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer supports the Cloud Core Engineering Team by designing and building enterprise cloud infrastructure automation, pipelines, and foundational capabilities on AWS. They’ll partner closely with application, security, and architecture Teams to deliver reusable, secure cloud infrastructure that enables business applications at scale. They’re responsible for the architecture, design, development, implementation, and ongoing operation of new and emerging cloud platforms. The Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer plays a critical role in driving transformational cloud capabilities that redefine how Southwest builds, operates, and recovers in the cloud, supporting reliability, innovation, and long‑term enterprise strategy. 

Additional Details 

• This role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel for trainings, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of those required visits, the majority of your working time may be spent in an approved remote location, away from our Corporate Campus. Please note, while this is a remote position, there is limited group of states or localities ineligible for Employees to regularly perform their work off-site. Those ineligible locations are: Alaska, California, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, Massachusetts, Maryland, Montana, New Jersey, New Hampshire New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming, and Puerto Rico. 

• U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.   

We’re committed to fair hiring practices and to making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics. 

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 p