Company Alaska Airlines

The Team

Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, spaneting, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.

Role Summary

This role is responsible for Alaska’s Cloud and Platform Engineering operations that support Alaska Air Group. The candidate will be part of a Cloud Center of Excellence consisting of several specialized areas that provide technical guidance and leadership in multiple cloud environments to ensure best practices in cloud architecture, deployments, and operations are followed. This includes executing Alaska’s Cloud strategy implementing architectural designs and best practices, defining cloud standards and implementing governance controls. As a people leader, this role must also be able to promote cross-departmental collaboration and take lead in driving process and systems improvements, with a focus on operational stability and cloud adoption. The candidate is expected to collaborate closely with assigned teams, offer hands-on support whenever needed, and participate in regular scrum ceremonies.

Key Duties

• Lead diverse technical teams responsible for ensuring Cloud Well Architected Framework principles are implemented in our Azure and GCP cloud environments including reliability, security, cost optimization, operational excellence, and performance efficiency.

• Define and articulate the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for the cloud platform teams, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and technological advancements.

• Drive cloud innovation by implementing and leveraging AIOps methodologies to enhance operational efficiency, predictive maintenance, and automated issue resolution.

• Partner closely with Enterprise Architecture and Security teams in designing architecture and security frameworks.

• Identify and bridge gaps between development team requirements and our cloud practices and strategy, providing effective solutions and influencing the development teams to ensure new capabilities are operationalized.

• Create cloud governance practices, policies and cost controls. Collaborates with subscription owners to ensure compliance and develop self service capabilities to streamline infrastructure workflows.

• Leads and/or influences cross divisional enterprise infrastructure projects related to Cloud and Kubernetes Platforms.

• Writes business cases to gain support from senior leaders.

• Develops people through effective performance management and ongoing feedback, focusing on delegation for stretch assignments, growing and developing the team for capacity and growth, looking at performance across the team, and time management.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

• 7 years of experience in IT, or related area.

• Strong technical background in cloud computing, with hands-on experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud infrastructure using platforms such as Azure or Google Cloud.

• Experience with Cloud Well Architected Framework Best Practices for Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including modernizing highly complex and critical applications to modern cloud architecture.

• Design, implement and maintain a Cloud high-availability and disaster recovery strategy for the organization.

• Provide technical leadership for designing and operating Cloud and Kubernetes environments and cloud-native services, focusing on scalability, security, cost-effectiveness, and standardization.

• Champion developer self-service by building tools that empower teams to deploy and manage infrastructure independently

• Experience working in an Agile environment, developing product backlogs, and ensuring successful delivery of projects on time.

• Responsible for optimizing cloud spend through FinOps practices while maintaining operational excellence.

• Experience implementing Cloud Landing Zone Design, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, ARM), Azure DevOps, and CI/CD.

• Adaptive leader, sensitive to team needs, and creating a culture of belonging. Proven ability to build, coach, and mentor teams.

• Bachelor’s/master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field. An additional two years of relevant training/ experience in lieu of this degree. Minimum age of 18 and must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Preferred

• Certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert and/or Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

• Prior experience implementing AIOps solutions to enhance cloud operations, including automation, predictive analytics, and proactive issue resolution.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.

Salary Range

$146,400 - $219,600 / year

Salary Details

Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon employees. Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.

Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range.

Total Rewards

Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.

• Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air

• Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits

• Generous 401k match program

• Quarterly and annual bonus plans

• Generous holiday and paid time off

For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.

Regulatory Information

Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement

It is the policy of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.

We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.

We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (“Section 503”) and the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (“VEVRAA”). All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.

To implement this policy, we will:

(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories;

(2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and

(3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.

Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA.

Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations

Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.

Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time on

12/29/2025

FLSA Status Exempt
Employment Type Full-Time
Regular/Temporary Regular
Requisition Type Management
Location Seattle - Hub
L: LI-B
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Job Locations USA-WA-SeaTac
Requisition ID 2025-15026
Category Corporate & Operations