What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior DevOps Engineer position at United Airlines?
There’s never been a more exciting time to join United Airlines. We’re on a path towards becoming the best airline in the history of aviation. Our shared purpose – Connecting People, Uniting the World – is about more than getting people from one place to another. It also means that as a global company that operates in hundreds of locations around the world with millions of customers and tens of thousands of employees, we have a unique responsibility to uplift and provide opportunities in the places where we work, live and fly, and we can only do that with a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. And we’re growing – in the years ahead, we’ll hire tens of thousands of people across every area of the airline. Our careers include a competitive benefits package aimed at keeping you happy, healthy and well-traveled. From employee-run "Business Resource Group" communities to world-class benefits like parental leave, 401k and privileges like space available travel, United is truly a one-of-a-kind place to work. Are you ready to travel the world?
We believe that inclusion propels innovation and is the foundation of all that we do. United's Digital Technology team spans the globe and is made up of diverse individuals all working together with powerful technology to build the best airline in the history of aviation. Our team crafts, develops and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.
Job overview and responsibilities
The Plaftorm Engineering and DevOps team responsible for CI / CD and maintenance of AWS resources is growing to increase both capacity and skill depth to ensure timely delivery of cloud based compute environments. The primary focus of this role will be integrating Kong APIM with new and existing envrionment, specifically developing processes and automation to aid in the monitoring and support of APIM, Gateway and Mesh. Additional responsibilities to include maintaining standards, contributing to continuous improvement through knowledge transfer and documentation, and security remediation as assigned.
- Develop and maintain CI / CD pipelines (Harness)
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure Code (CloudFormation, Terraform)
- Execute architectural designs to deliver environments correctly and on time
- Provide technical guidance and maintain documentation
- Support application deployments and infrastructure change
- Maintain work tickets and user stories (Service Now, Azure DevOps)
- Collaborate across teams to design and implement improvements
