Principal Engineer - Devops

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This role will lead and support a centralized function to deliver cloud services across the Revenue Systems portfolio application delivery teams. The position will work closely with AWS and internal teams to ensure that new cloud systems are secure, vulnerability free and designed in alignment with the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Additionally, this role will oversee a team of cloud automation specialists responsible for developing and maintaining automation scripts for all cloud applications within the portfolio. The role will also take ownership of production cloud environments and manage all application cloud environments to ensure high performance, reliability, and cost efficiency, utilizing both internal resources and strategic partners. Furthermore, this position will guide the architectural direction of all new cloud applications, leveraging a deep understanding of AWS native services.

Responsibilities include:

• Adopting the AWS Well Architected Review framework to United's internal technical processes, and ensuring all new applications follow this process to ensure system reliability and maintainability.
• Collaborating with other architects and engineers to perform design reviews and incorporate feedback.
• Managing a team of highly skilled resources that work with a large number of application development teams to setup their CI/CD automation, both on premise and cloud, assist them with troubleshooting issues and provide guidance on cloud services and monitoring.
• Creating Terraform and AWS Cloud Formation templates and standards to automate both applications and infrastructure, ensuring they are reliable and secure.
• Managing a team that works with all application teams to understand their application architecture and their automation requirements, and then implements the solution while following the standards.
• Researching and evaluating new cloud and automation technologies, and looking for opportunities to streamline processes or improve efficiency.
• Leading a team that operates and maintains a scalable and cost effective cloud environment for all application teams.
• Managing automation runbooks, diagnosing and fixing application performance issues at an infrastructure level, and managing scaling policies to reduce spend.
• Managing a team of highly skilled technical resources, ensuring there is a talent pipeline in place, and employees have needed resources to maintain and improve their skills.

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law.

Qualifications:

Required:

• BS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, other computer related field required.
• AWS Associate level certification or better (Solution Architect, Developer, or SysOps).
• 3+ years of experience in leading technical teams.
• 5+ years hands on experience with core AWS technologies.
• Experience with Harness, TeamCity or Jenkins.
• Scripting experience with Python or Bash.
• Python development experience preferred, C#/Java is a big plus.
• 5+ years of application development.
• Solid understanding of web applications, databases (relational and NoSQL), messaging (MQ, Tibco EMS, Kafka) and version control system (Git, ADO, JIRA).
• Hands-on experience in these areas: CI/CD, AWS CloudFormation and Terraform, AWS CodePipeline, AWS Lambda, EC2, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, DocumentDB, SQS, Kinesis, AWS Config.
• Strong desire to learn new technologies.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship.
• Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification.
• Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position.

Preferred:

• 1-3 years of DevOps experience.

The base pay range for this role is $137,275.00 to $178,670.00. The base salary range/hourly rate listed is dependent on job-related factors such as experience, education, and skills. This position is also eligible for bonus and/or long-term incentive compensation awards. You may be eligible for the following competitive benefits: medical, dental, vision, life, accident & disability, parental leave, employee assistance program, commuter, paid holidays, paid time off, 401(k) and flight privileges.

United Airlines is an equal opportunity employer. United Airlines recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, physical ability, age, veteran status and other protected status as required by applicable law. Equal Opportunity Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled/LGBT. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions. Please contact JobAccommodations@united.com to request accommodation.