How youll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)

Deltas 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 worlds premier airline!

Senior Software Development Engineers build code by using core agile practices such as "keep it simple," test-driven development (TDD), continuous integration, polyglot programming, and microservice design. A SDE focuses on designing and implementing modernized specialized business applications, deploying to development, test, staging, and production.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Lead our AWS migration from on prem to the cloud
Designing, prototyping and demonstrating new features and components of front-end and back-end to users to ensure compliance with requirements
Assisting in the design, implementation and optimization of related approaches, tools and workflows.
Collaborate with the technical teams, business teams, and product managers to ensure that the code that is developed meets their vision.
Develop solutions to meet functional and technical requirements.
Align to Security/Compliance frameworks and controls requirements.
Own quality posture. Write automated tests, ideally before writing code.
Writing clean, scalable java code.
Develop delivery pipelines and automated deployment scripts.
Configure services, such as databases and monitoring.
Implement Service Reliability Engineering.
Fix problems from the development phase through the production phase, which requires being on call for production support.

Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing

Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience, Servant Leadership, and Teamwork – 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
Paid time off including vacation, holidays, paid personal time, maternity and parental leave
Comprehensive health beneﬁts including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life 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

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)

5+ years of hands-on experience as a Software Engineer or related technical engineering capacity. Relevant technologies and programming languages
Experience with Agile Methodologies.
Understanding of DevOps principles, practices and tools in an enterprise technology environment.
Demonstrable experience with engineering software within an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure or other prominent enterprise cloud.
Experience working with containers, and managed container orchestrators (Kubernetes/OpenShift) in the cloud (For example AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift
Experience migrating applications from on prem to AWS.
Solid grasp of the full Software Development Lifecycle, building CI/CD pipelines and practicing Test Driven Development.
Fundamental Awareness of Application Security principles and 12-factor application development principles.
Experience with source control, build tools and GIT (GitHub, Bitbucket or other).
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)

Experience in airline industry is a plus.

Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Migration

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