Principal DevOps Tech Lead, IT Applications (Phoenix, AZ, US)

Location: Rio West A Bldg (PHX-RWA1)   
Additional Locations: Dallas/Ft Worth, TX
Requisition ID: 62836 

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

• ​This job is a member of the Cloud and Engineering Platforms organization within information Technology Division.
• This is a Product Technical Lead role for DevOps Technical Enablement product that responsible for assessing needs of development teams and provide enterprise solutions to enable them to achieve their DevOps excellence goal. This role will actively collaborate with internal and external teams including Security Engineers, Architects, Developers, QA professionals, and Operation teams as well as leaders across the enterprise.

What you'll do

• 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 leads development of DevOps patterns and capabilities to enable a 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.

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 5 years of experience with configuration, automation, integration of CI/CD tools including source code control system, CI engine, binary repo, quality and security scanning tools, testing, metric and reporting

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 3 years technical leadership of IT personnel
• Airline experience

Skills, Licenses & Certification

• Large scale application deployment experience, as well as extensive build and release engineering and proven ability to design and develop automated deployment solutions
• Deep understanding of service-oriented architecture (REST APIs, micro-services, etc.) and extensive experience with implementing API integration
• Experience with implementing and integrating DevOps toolset in Cloud environment
• Extensive knowledge with automation using scripting languages like shell and python
• Deep understanding of CI/CD processes.  Including best practices around Github repository and Action, code quality and security scanning, various type of testing, provisioning and deployment, alert, and monitoring.
• Strong experience with DevOps for Could, Azure preferred
• Strong experience with build tools Maven, Gradle and NPM
• Extensive knowledge with automation using scripting languages like shell and python
• Strong experience with Container's technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with creating infrastructure as code (Docker, Kubernetes, HELM, Terraform)
• Capable of writing comprehensive technical documentation and diagrams
• Working knowledge of common networking protocols (e.g., HTTP, TCP, IP, SSH, FTP, SMTP, DNS, LDAP), load balancer, firewall, storage
• Sufficient working knowledge with Linux and Windows OS
• Ability to work/collaborate with peers to drive for result
• Ability to communicate and evangelize the benefit of CI/CD practice to application developers and management

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: Dallas/Ft Worth, TX
Requisition ID: 62836 

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