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 related to Deltas cloud journey. As a member of the Crew IT Team, the engineer will be involved with engineering, support, and thought leadership concerning 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, workload migration to containers, containerized development workflows, and integration of container platforms with automated CI/CD pipelines.
2. Serve as a subject matter expert on the OpenShift platform, able to explain and translate 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 across the full technology stack.
4. Collaborate with technical teams, business teams, and product managers to ensure developed code aligns with their vision.
5. Provide efficient solutions and deliverables to shorten project life cycles where applicable.
6. Own product quality by engaging in thorough testing activities.
7. Create visual models such as flowcharts, class diagrams, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams.
8. Address problems from development through production, including being on call for support.
9. Support operationally critical environments using monitoring tools, scripts, data feeds, and analysis of production issues, including logging.
10. Provide mentorship to junior engineers as needed.
11. Maintain excellent communication skills and the ability to work within a focused team.

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications):

1. Minimum 7 years of software development experience.
2. Experience with cloud technologies (preferably AWS) and application migration to cloud.
3. Experience with Agile methodologies, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipelines, and build tools (GIT, Maven, Gradle).
4. Experience engineering software within AWS or other major enterprise cloud providers.
5. Expertise in Java/J2EE, design patterns, relational databases (Oracle).
6. Experience with web frameworks and API technologies like Spring Boot, JQuery, AngularJS, Swagger.
7. Automation experience, including writing automated tests using tools like Postman, REST Assured, Ready API.
8. Experience with containers and managed orchestrators like Kubernetes/OpenShift in the cloud.
9. Unix shell scripting skills.
10. Ability to work well in a team, meet deadlines, and pay attention to detail.
11. Strong communication skills, both technical and non-technical.
12. Basic awareness of application security principles and 12-factor app development.
13. Prioritize safety and security of data and self.
14. Embrace diversity in people, thinking, and styles.
15. High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
16. 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.
2. Experience with containers and managed orchestrators like Kubernetes/OpenShift in cloud environments.
3. Experience with cloud managed services and databases.
4. Knowledge of messaging solutions such as ActiveMQ or Kafka.

Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing

Our culture is rooted in shared valuesCare, Integrity, Resilience, and Servant Leadership. We focus on sharing success with our employees, offering competitive pay, benefits, and growth opportunities. Highlights include:

• Competitive salary, profit sharing, performance incentives.
• 401(k) with up to 9% company contributions.
• Vacation and paid personal time.
• Paid holidays, parental leave, health benefits, and wellbeing programs.
• Travel privileges, career development, community engagement, and discounts.

Pay Range: $80,500 - $218,900 annually.

Delta is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and provides accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If needed, request an accommodation through the provided link.

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