Job Description
Intro
Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!
Why you'll love this job
- This job is a member of the Cloud and Engineering Platforms Team within the Information Technology Division.
- Responsible for both traditional and cloud based infrastructure implementations based on designs from infrastructure architects
What you'll do
- Engineers custom Kubernetes operators using Go and controller-runtime
- Manages multi-tenant Kubernetes platform
- Orchestrates enterprise-wide applications at both the compute and the network layer for global availability and resiliency
- Enhances developer productivity via time saving developer experience and orchestration features
- Works with other enterprise platform teams to promote and build automated solutions to common issues
- Encourages an environment of sharing and teamwork among the team.
- Stays current with systems technology best practices and changing technologies, in order to maintain domain expertise and recommend enhancements or changes
- Supports communication and response process by responding to users on system issues, maintenance, and system status, and advising and escalating on any prolonged or major issues
- Travels, as required
- Mandatory rotational schedule for on-call off-hours support
All you'll need for success
Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
- 3 years of experience as a network or infrastructure engineer or software developer
Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
- 5+ years of experience as a network or infrastructure engineer or software developer
Skills, Licenses & Certifications
- Strong understanding of Go and related programming concepts
- Strong understanding of software testing strategies and practices
- Strong understanding of Kubernetes and fundamental Kubernetes controller concepts
- Strong understanding of core networking concepts and best practices including:
- DNS
- DOH
- DNS load balancing
- Mesh overlays
- m/TLS
- NAT
- UNIX networking
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts
- Strong understanding of DevOps philosophy and best practices
- Experience with some or all of the following tools:
- Go
- Python
- Kubebuilder/controller-runtime
- Gink/gomega
- Make
- KEDA
- Helm
- Kuma mesh
- Istio mesh
- Envoy proxy
- Rancher/RKE
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Terraform
- ArgoCD
- Backstage
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Advanced ability to plan strategically for current and future business environments, including future technology and business design changes to create flexible, scalable solutions
- In-depth knowledge of IT business operations, systems requirements, and processes
- Ability to analyze complex problems and implement solutions and/or workarounds
- Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously with a keen desire to learn and expand depth of knowledge
- Ability to thrive in a sense-of-urgency environment and leverage best practices
- Demonstrated initiative, flexibility, and ability to adapt to changing priorities and work environments
What you'll get
Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:
- Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
- Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
- Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
- 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
- Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more
Feel free to be yourself at American
From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.
Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.
Job Tags
Remote job, Flexible hours,