Job Description

How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)

Delta's IT department is undergoing a transformation to change the way we do business from top to bottom. We strive to build innovative solutions that deliver impact to our customers. As we grow, we seek new team members eager to collaborate and advance our mission of becoming a best-in-class IT organization at the world's premier airline!

The Senior Software Development Engineer is responsible for development, operations, and enhancements for Deltas cloud journey. As a member of the Crew IT Team, the engineer will be involved with engineering, support, and thought leadership related to the platform, automation, and other activities. This position requires working closely with internal team members, Product Owners, and other supporting IT groups.

Your Responsibilities in this role:

1. Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions, focusing on application concerns including cloud-ready distributed architectures, migrating workloads to containers, containerized development workflows, and integrating container platforms with automated CI/CD pipelines.
2. Serve as a subject matter expert with the ability to explain and translate relevant details of the OpenShift platform and its components to less familiar team members.
3. Design and develop cloud applications, features, and enhancements with an emphasis on clean, efficient, supportable, and well-documented code for the full technology stack.
4. Collaborate with technical teams, business teams, and product managers to ensure that the code developed meets their vision.
5. Provide efficient solutions and deliverables to shorten the project lifecycle, where applicable.
6. Own the quality of the product delivered by engaging closely in testing activities.
7. Create visual models (flowcharts, class and activity diagrams, sequence diagrams).
8. Fix problems from development through production, which requires being on call for support.
9. Support operationally critical environments, using monitoring tools, scripts, data feeds, and analyzing production issues, capturing logs.
10. Provide mentorship to Junior Engineers as needed.
11. Maintain excellent communication skills and ability to work within a focused team.

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications):

1. Minimum 7 years of Software Development experience.
2. Experience in Cloud Technologies (preferably AWS) and application migration to cloud.
3. Experience in Agile methodologies, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipeline, and build tools (GIT, Maven, Gradle).
4. Experience engineering software within an AWS cloud infrastructure or other major enterprise cloud provider.
5. Expertise in Java/J2EE, design patterns, relational DB (Oracle).
6. Experience with Web frameworks and API technologies like Spring Boot, JQuery, AngularJS, Swagger.
7. Automation-minded: hands-on experience writing automated tests using tools like Postman, REST Assured, Ready API.
8. Experience working with containers and managed orchestrators (Kubernetes/OpenShift) in the cloud (e.g., AWS EKS, Red Hat OpenShift).
9. Experience with Unix shell scripting.
10. Ability to work well in a team, meet deadlines, and pay attention to detail.
11. Strong technical and non-technical communication skills.
12. Fundamental awareness of Application Security principles and 12-factor app development principles.
13. Prioritize safety and security of data and individuals.
14. Embrace diversity in people, thinking, and styles.
15. Possess a high school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
16. Be at least 18 years old and authorized to work in the U.S.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications):

1. AWS Certified Developer Associate (plus).
2. Experience with containers and orchestrators like Kubernetes/OpenShift in the cloud.
3. Experience with cloud managed services and databases.
4. Knowledge of messaging solutions like ActiveMQ or Kafka.

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