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 being built for Delta's cloud journey. As a member of the Crew IT Team, engineer will be involved with engineering, support, and thought leadership as it relates to the platform, automation, and other related activities. This position requires working closely with internal team members, Product Owners, and other supporting IT groups. Your Responsibilities in this role:
- Implement automated, containerized cloud application platform solutions, with a focus on application concerns including cloud-ready distributed application architectures, migrating workloads to containers, containerized development workflows, and integrating container platforms with automated CI/CD pipelines
- Serve as a subject matter expert with the ability to explain and translate relevant details of the OpenShift platform and its constituent components to those less familiar
- Design and develop cloud applications, features, and enhancements with an emphasis on clean, highly efficient, supportable, and well documented code for the full technology stack
- Collaborate with the technical teams, business teams, and product managers to ensure that the code that is developed meets their vision
- Provide efficient solution and deliverables to shorten the project life cycle, where applicable
- Own the quality of the product delivered by engaging closely in testing activities.
- Create visual models (flowcharts, class and activity diagrams, sequence diagrams)
- Fix problems from the development phase through the production phase, which requires being on call for production support
- Support operationally critical environment, using monitoring tools and scripts, data feeds and associated scripts, research, and analysis of production issues, capturing logging.
- Provide mentorship to Junior Engineers as needed.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work within the focused team.
What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)
- Minimum 5 years of Software Development experience
- Experience in Cloud Technologies (preferably AWS) and application migration to cloud
- Experience with Red Hat Open Shift
- Experience in Agile methodologies, DevSecOps, CI/CD pipeline and Build tools (GIT, Maven, Gradle)
- Experience engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure or other prominent enterprise cloud provider
- Expertise in Java/J2EE framework, design patterns and tools, relational DB (Oracle)
- Experience in Web application frameworks and API technologies like JQuery, AngularJS, Swagger and Springboot
- Automation-minded: Hands on experience of writing automated tests for backend applications and data flow, using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, Ready API etc
- Experience working with containers, and managed container orchestrators (Kubernetes/OpenShift) in the cloud (For example AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift)
- Experience with Unix shell scripting.
- Ability to work well with others in a time sensitive and team environment with minimal supervision, be results oriented and capable of meeting deadlines with attention to detail and follow through
- Strong technical and non-technical communication skills. Assures smooth flowing, timely transmission of critical information
- Fundamental Awareness of Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles is required
- Consistently prioritizes safety and security of self, others, and personal data.
- Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
- Possesses a high school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency.
- Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.
What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)
- AWS Certified Developer – Associate is a plus
- Experience working with containers, and managed container orchestrators (Kubernetes/OpenShift) in the cloud
- Experience in cloud managed services and DB
- Knowledge and/or experience with messaging solutions such as ActiveMQ or Kafka
Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:
- Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives
- 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
- New hires are eligible for up to 2-weeks of vacation. This is earned for use in the following vacation year (April 1 – March 31)
- In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period
- 10 paid holidays per calendar year
- Birthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leave
- Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leave
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits
- Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages
- Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health
- Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
- Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals
- World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint
- Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies
- Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together
- Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare