Lead Devops Engineer [T500-21822]

Job Description

About Delta Tech Hub: Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability and customer experience. Powered by our employees around the world, Delta has for a decade led the airline industry in operational excellence while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world and serve as a force for social good. Delta has fast emerged as a customer-oriented, innovation-led, technology-driven business. The Delta Technology Hub will contribute directly to these objectives. It will sustain our long-term aspirations of delivering niche, IP-intensive, high-value, and innovative solutions. It supports various teams and functions across Delta and is an integral part of our transformation agenda, working seamlessly with a global team to create memorable experiences for customers. ROLE DESCRIPTION: A Lead DevOps engineer works on projects or tasks that ensure consistency & stability in design & implementation of software tools used in the development of software & asset management in the production environment. Be creative during collaboration on best practices and ways to improve performance along with efficiency. Possess resolve for troubleshooting complex and simple issues alike. They will have a keen eye for recognizing inefficiency and take the initiative to simplify processes for their team and customers. A solid understanding of automation and infrastructure as code would be desired! KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Provide AWS native solutions to Infrastructure and design automations Utilizing Infrastructure as Code best practices, develop, maintain, and enhance systems using scripting language (Python and bash) Analyze the design and suggest better solution. Create and maintain automated CI/CD pipeline (in Jenkins and Terraform) for automation with DevSecOps standards. Provide recommendations to management through research and review of recent industry solutions in various configuration related tools/technologies. Maintain Config admin owned tools such Nexus, Terraform, Apache, Tomcat, Ngnix etc. Create documentation and training material; provide training to others to ensure cross collaboration. Support ana maintenance - OS patching, key rotations and ensuring the application is in zero down time Participate in company-wide working group for contributing to strategy for Enterprise needs. Consulting to development teams on development process automation. Support and delivering exceptional service during change control and system updates. Guide and mentor team junior?s members from a technical perspective to ensure quality delivery of the project. WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED (MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS): Technical competencies : Bachelor?s degree in computer science, Information Systems or related technical field 6+ years of DevSecOps experience as Config Admin or similar role Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skillset Past participation in major systems rollouts and deployments Understanding of advanced continuous delivery methods. Solid foundation in internet and networking concepts including VPN and SITA Proficient UNIX/LINUX scripting knowledge (PERL, Bash, etc.) Ability to formulate a design strategy from a mix of business requirements, concept documents and verbal description Outstanding communication skills, including oral, written, motivation and presentation skills At least 5 years' experience in AWS cloud, DevOps and continuous improvement Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to automate the build, test, and deployment processes Experience developing and maintaining infrastructure using Terraform or other IaC tools, to ensure scalability, security, and repeatability across environments Experience automating and managing system configurations and application deployments using Native AWS solutions to enforce security policies and maintain system integrity Experience implementing testing with automated security measures, including access controls such as OIDC and OAUTH, encryption (AWS KMS), federations and identity management (OKTA) Experience mentoring junior team members from a technical perspective. Behavioral competencies: Lead initiatives with high accountability, create a collaborative environment with a solution-based approach. Serve as a trusted advisor and mentor for the team offering technical advice. Ability to communicate with precision, engaging team and stakeholders to build trust and reliable working relationships across cross-functional teams and geographies enabling organizational alignment. Ability to set priorities with the team by understanding interdependence, inspiring team members with consistent focus, quality output, and timelines. Constantly keep oneself updated on current technology & trends to drive innovative decisions through piloting forward-thinking approaches to complex problems in one?s own area of work. Inquisitive to understand customer priorities and business challenges while creating value for technical solutions. WHAT WILL GIVE YOU A COMPETITIVE EDGE (PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS): Hands-on experience with UNIX/Linux/Solaris Hands-on experience in implementation with integration tools as SFTP, Kafka, Rest and SOAP Cloud deployment models and concepts ? AWS Understanding of China Connectivity Hands-on experience in implementation with DevSecOps Tools: Jenkins, Nexus, Git (Bitbucket), Ansible, chef, OWASP, Veracode, Sonar, Ready API etc. Experience in configuring various monitoring tools. (Elastic-Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus, CloudWatch etc.) Experience in DevSecOps and CI/CD pipeline management. Python programming experience is advantage Held the role of a critical contributor to or leading major systems rollouts and deployments Good to have knowledge in Airline domain. Experience with working with cloud native applications, container orchestration platforms such as Docker/ Kubernetes. Monitor and optimize cloud resources to enhance cost efficiency and maximize performance. Ability to adapt to new technologies and learn quickly.