Principal Engineer, IT DevOps

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 7 (DFW-SV07)   
Additional Locations: Dallas/Ft Worth, TX
Requisition ID: 72359 

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

• We are looking for passionate technologist to solve cloud transformation challenges; develop solutions to modernize infrastructure services; create templates to standardize and accelerate application's cloud journey. 
• At American Airlines, you will find talented technologists like yourself and together we create enterprise scale Inner-sourced platforms using cutting edge technologies to drive innovation and engineering excellence. 
• This job will development DevOps patterns and capabilities to enable developer portal, a home-grown developer experience platform powered by the open-source framework Backstage. It provides a simple and secure path for our applications’ cloud journey that frees engineers from infrastructure complexity. Developers can set up new applications with an automated CICD pipeline, IaC, monitoring, logging, and cloud security best practices allowing application teams to focus on building business value. 

What you'll do

• Collaborate with product owner, stakeholders, and team members to understand product and customer needs and develop solutions  
• Improve user experience by creating self-service software delivery capabilities 
• Working with appropriate stakeholders to implement good practices to harden and secure software delivery pipeline while also making it easy for engineering teams to use 
• Integrate upstream and downstream development/QA Testing/Security Analysis tools into the enterprise toolchain 
• Continually seek improvement opportunities of the Enterprise DevOps toolchain product 
• Mentor and teach engineering squads and individual team members to improve their code practices 

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, STEM or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training 
• 5 years of experience with configuration, automation, integration of CI/CD tools 

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Experience building full stack software applications using Test Driven Development 
• Use of container's technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes 
• Experience with creating infrastructure as code (Docker, Kubernetes, HELM, Terraform) 
• Working knowledge of common networking protocols (e.g. HTTP, TCP, IP, SSH, FTP, SMTP, DNS, LDAP), load balancer, firewall, storage 
• Experience with DevOps enablement for Cloud (Azure preferred) 
• Experience with serialized/de-serialized data formats, including data VETRO (Validate, Extract, Transform, Route, and Operate) 
• Experience with implementing and operating end to end software supply chain frameworks in a regulated industry (for example SLSA.dev) 

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Large scale application deployment experience, as well as proven ability to design and develop automated deployment solutions 
• Experience designing and implementing service-oriented architecture (REST APIs, micro-services, etc.) 
• Experience demonstrating testing strategies and coaching teams on applying testing practices, like TDD, backfill testing, etc. 
• Experience building a testable code to automate tasks including automated verification of success, failure, and notifications 
• An understanding of CI/CD processes including production use of a CI/CD tool (GitHub Actions, ADO, etc), code quality and security scanning, testing, provisioning, and deployment, alerting and monitoring. 
• Experience with build tools like Maven, Gradle and NPM 

What you'll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer: 

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’