Tech Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer - Cloud and DevOps Foundation Team

Southwest Airlines is seeking a Tech Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer to support its Cloud and DevOps Foundation Team. The role provides technical leadership for AWS cloud infrastructure, automation, and CI/CD capabilities while overseeing solution design, security, governance, compliance, cost-effectiveness, and implementation across cloud platforms.

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

Requirements:

• • 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: High School Diploma or GED
• • Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information systems or similar fields of study or equivalent advanced level experience
• • Required: Expert-level experience, expansive and far-reaching knowledge in Cloud software or DevOps
• • Ability to perform work duties from [limited space work station/desk/office area] for extended periods of time
• • Ability to communicate and interact with others in the English language to meet the demands of the job
• • Ability to use a computer and other office productivity tools with sufficient speed and accuracy to meet the demands of the job
• • Must be a U.S. citizen or have authorization to work in the United States as defined by the Immigration Reform Act of 1986
• • Must be at least 18 years of age
• • Must be able to travel and /or attend Company and non-Company facilities and remote locations such as remote-based offices as necessary
• • Experience with training/presenting to other groups, enabling developer self -service
• • Experience in CloudWatch
• • Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• • Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) & virtual subnets
• • Experience in helping a company move from on-prem to cloud