Principal Engineer, IT DevOps

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!

• We are looking for passionate technologist to solve cloud transformation challenges; develop solutions to modernize infrastructure services; create templates to standardize and accelerate applications 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. 

• 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 

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelors 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 containers 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 

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

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.