[Hiring] Sr Cloud DevOps Engineer @Southwest Airlines

Role Description

The Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer supports the Cybersecurity Accelerate Team and assists in Cybersecurity Observability and Automation by focusing on designing and building enterprise cloud infrastructure automation, pipelines, and cloud capabilities for services on AWS. They’ll partner with Application, Security, and Architecture Teams to build re-usable and secure cloud infrastructure to be used by business applications. The Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer is a skilled communicator excited to support ongoing operations of new and emerging technology platforms.

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 a limited group of states or localities ineligible for Employees to regularly perform their work off-site. Those ineligible locations are:

• Alaska
• Delaware
• New Jersey
• North Dakota
• South Dakota
• Vermont
• West Virginia
• Wyoming
• 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.

Qualifications

• 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 practices are followed.
• Ability to mentor and guide team members' learning, including introducing new ideas and technologies.
• Ability to anticipate business needs and lead a team towards identifying and solving cross-domain problems.
• Skilled in automated testing solutions for unit testing, integration testing, and system testing.

Technical Tools

• Common automation tools such as Stash, Git, Nexus, Jenkins, Gradle, Groovy, and YML.
• Docker, Serverless, ECS, Kubernetes.
• Python, ANT, Artifactory, Groovy, Maven, MS Build, Nexus, NuGet.
• Continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, TFS, TeamCity or Bamboo.
• Configuration management tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible.

Education

• 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.

Experience

• Required: Advanced-level experience, seasoned and specialized knowledge in Cloud software or DevOps.
• Preferred: Experience in Terraform, Terragrunt, Terratest, GoLang, GoReleaser, GitLab, Nexus, ECR, Helm, EKS, Containers, Cloud Formation, Python, Cloud Common Platform, AWS Cloud, Ping, CyberArk, and OTEL.
• Preferred: Experience in AWS Architecture and Security certification.

Physical Abilities

• 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.

Other Qualifications

• Must maintain a well-groomed appearance per Company appearance standards as described in established guidelines.
• 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 comply with Company attendance standards as described in established guidelines.
• Must be able to travel and/or attend Company and non-Company facilities and remote locations as necessary.

Pay & Benefits

Competitive market salary from $145,600 - $161,800 per year depending on qualifications and experience, with opportunity for future pay increases based on performance and market movement. For eligible leadership and individual contributor roles, additional bonus opportunities are available and awarded at the discretion of the company.

• Fly for free, as a privilege, on any open seat on all Southwest flights (your eligible dependents too).
• Southwest will help fund your Retirement Savings Plan with Company contributions up to 9.3% of your eligible earnings.
• Potential for annual ProfitSharing contribution in the Southwest Retirement Savings Plan - when Southwest profits, you profit.
• Competitive health insurance for you and your eligible dependents (including pets).
• Southwest offers health plan coverage options that start from the very first day of employment. You will have 30 days to select and enroll in your health plan with coverage retroactively available to your first day of employment.

Explore more Benefits you’ll love: https://careers.southwestair.com/benefits

*Pay amount doesn’t guarantee employment for any particular period of time.

**401(k) match contributions are subject to the plan’s vesting schedule and applicable IRS limits.

***ProfitSharing contributions are subject to plan’s vesting schedule and are made at the discretion of the Company.

Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Job Posting End Date

04/16/2026