Director, Cloud and Engineering Platforms (Ft Worth, TX, US)

Location: DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08) 
Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 39627 

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’re looking for an Technology leader with a proven track record in leading transformation of legacy infrastructure to a cloud model.  This leader will have an engineering first mindset and believe in providing a delightful self-service developer experience; inspire and grow an engineering competency within the Infrastructure organization.   They will be strategic in assessing industry technology trends, driving rapid incubation and adoption at American, while also being operationally focused in managing the service availability of American’s enterprise infrastructure footprint.

What you'll do

What you'll do

• Lead an organization responsible for the design, build, and operations of platforms and tools that enable consistent infrastructure delivery across multiple cloud environments.  Automated governance (e.g. tagging, policy, automated guardrails) will be built into these platforms
• Provide standardized compute, storage, and load balancing offerings across Windows and Linux technology stacks. These offerings will be built API-first and provided as end-to-end offerings
• Build and run an Integration platform that enables teams to effectively manage their events, APIs, and other modern integration patterns for their applications
• Establish a cloud business office that allows us to measure, track, and govern cloud spend and migration planning across American IT.
• Manage the health, availability, and life cycle of infrastructure across American.  For legacy infrastructure this will include directly performing life cycle activities.  For modern cloud based infrastructure, provide a solution that enables product teams to own life cycle activities through automated CI/CD pipelines as they mature their delivery practices
• Manage American IT data centers and drive data center consolidation to simplify and drive cost efficiencies
• Drive an open source strategy for infrastructure at American, looking for every opportunity to replace legacy commercial solutions with open source options, as well as increase contributions to the open source community.
• Consolidate platform measurement capabilities to enable a “single pane of glass” operational metrics view for application teams to consume, enrich, and take action on improving traveler experiences
• Drive InnerSource efforts to amplify contributions across American IT domains, including infrastructure and application codebases
• Establish and sponsor infrastructure engineering community guilds for American IT engineers
• Support, endorse, and contribute to American’s Architecture Principles and Engineering Tenets

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Demonstrates the highest level of ethics and integrity
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience required in Computer Science, Information Systems Management, or related field
• 10 years of experience with infrastructure technologies and software development
• 7 years of technology leadership experience, including development, infrastructure, and architecture teams
• 5 years of experience in leveraging Agile, DevOps, and Cloud practices to manage technology delivery

 

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Demonstrated understanding of emerging technology trends in infrastructure
• Proven experience in growing engineering practices such as Infrastructure as code, containerization, source control management, CI/CD, and Infrastructure test automation
• Proven ability to manage internal and external resources, as well as manage relationships with 3rd party providers and partners
• Demonstrated ability to solve, and to lead others in solving, complex analytical problems
• Willingness to take calculated risks

All you'll need for success, continued

• Ability to build and facilitate relationships at all levels of the organization, both internally and externally
• Self-driven with a natural aptitude for engaging employees in multiple workgroups
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with ability to effectively and clearly communicate a strategic vision; ability to communicate technical concepts to both engineering and non-technical audiences
• Believes in, promotes and embodies in daily actions the American Airlines five leadership attributes:
  • Caring – We care about all team members
  • Collaboration – We succeed as a team
  • Development – We build future leaders
  • Results – We drive to be the best
  • Future – We continually challenge the status quo

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’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more. 
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

Feel Free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.

Additional Locations: None
Requisition ID: 39627 

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