Sr Cloud DevOps Engineer

Company: United Airlines
Location: Chicago
Posted on: May 3, 2025

Job Description:

DescriptionJob Description:United's Digital Technology team designs, develops, and maintains massively scaling technology solutions brought to life with innovative architectures, data analytics, and digital solutions.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. 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 pioneering technology to make United the best airline in the history of aviation.The Senior DevOps Engineer will work with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release, and deployment of applications into a runtime environment. This role requires a background in development, operations, and full-stack software implementations.Key Responsibilities:

• Is well versed in programming in a high-level language such as TypeScript, Python, Java, C# or other languages to script installation, configuration and provisioning.
• Provide continuous delivery solutions in a cloud environment and have experience with the core suite of tools used to manage AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Establish and employ Continuous Integration practices and tools such as TeamCity, ArgoCD, Github Action or other CI tools.
• Configure management automation tools from AWS or other cloud providers in creating continuous delivery systems.
• Employ industry Continuous Delivery patterns and collaboratively work with other members to achieve successful continuous delivery solutions.
• Responsible for mentoring and teaching existing team members.
• Clearly explain solutions for complex problems and demonstrate ability to lead and impart knowledge effectively to junior resources.
• Collect DevOps automation requirements from development teams.
• Design devops pipelines for applications based on existing company standards.
• Build cloud infrastructure pipelines based on existing company standards.
• Build CI/CD pipelines based on existing company standards for cloud applications.
• Support and maintain existing infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines.QualificationsThis position is offered on local terms and conditions. Expatriate assignments and sponsorship for employment visas, even on a time-limited visa status, will not be awarded.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
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience.
• 6 + years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, application development, or operations.
• Experience optimizing applications, both stand-alone and in distributed systems to maximize performance.
• Experience maintaining infrastructure and ensuring stability while adding new features.
• Any AWS Certification.
• Familiarity with a broad portfolio of AWS infrastructure tools (EBS, S3, EC2, Elastic IP, Route 53, VPC) and experience with cloud infrastructure management and automation technologies.
• Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders.
• Comfort with frequent changes in priorities.
• Ability to clearly articulate design and implementation choices.
• Experience managing multi-tenant Kubernetes cluster.
• Continuous integration tools such as TeamCity, ArgoCD, Github Action or similar.
• Scripting (Python, JS, GO Lang, Bash) skills for monitoring and automation.
• Possess a strong grasp of automation tools.
• Manage source control including SVN and GIT.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Time and priority management.
• A team player with strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must be legally authorized to work in India for any employer without sponsorship.Preferred
• Experience leading small Teams.
• AWS CDK.
• Object-Oriented Programming Experience.
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