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TechnologyOur Company Promise
We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.
Job Description:
About Us
At Southwest Airlines, we believe that flying should feel like freedom. For over 50 years, we’ve been connecting people to what matters most with low fares, legendary hospitality, and a heart for service. Our culture is built on the principles of fun, friendliness, and family, making us one of the most admired workplaces in the world.
If you’re passionate about making a difference, love working in a fast-paced environment, and want to help millions of travelers reach their destinations with a smile, Southwest Airlines is the place for you. Here, your career can truly take flight.
Job Summary
- The Platform & AI Accelerators Pod drives Southwest's next-generation cloud platform transformation — migrating from CloudFormation-based CCP to Terraform-based CCPNext, scaling Backstage Golden Paths, and delivering AI-driven platform accelerators. The team enables faster developer onboarding, consistent enterprise standards, and higher engineering productivity through reusable modules, automation, and AI-enabled tooling adopted across the organization.
- As Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer – Platform & AI Accelerators, you'll lead design and delivery of enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure — building reusable Terraform modules, GitLab-based accelerators, and platform standards adopted across the enterprise. You'll act as a subject matter expert shaping DevOps best practices from our Hyderabad office, driving enterprise-wide adoption of CCPNext and AI-driven acceleration.
- Focus on designing and building enterprise cloud infrastructure automation, pipelines, and cloud capabilities for services on AWS. Partner with application, security, and architecture teams to build re-usable and secure cloud infrastructure to be used by business applications. Operate in a DevOps culture and team, responsible for architecture, design, development, implementation, and ongoing operations of new and emerging technology platforms.
- Evaluate cloud services and architecture to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems
- Implement automation tools and frameworks for automatic code deployment (CI/CD)
- Work with the development team to deploy and manage tools that support SDLC automation, configuration management, and release management
- Understand technical architectures with automation to support complex delivery across a wide range of digital and enterprise applications
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of cloud infrastructure
- Establish and/or follow procedures and standards to ensure high quality and quantity of work
- Establish or follow prioritization processes to drive work with a sense of urgency about getting work completed
- Consult with stakeholders to specify requirements and solutions which address business challenges and opportunities
- Serve as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure, performing design reviews and consulting with your teams to ensure design best practices
- Maintain business continuity and disaster recovery processes
- May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders
- Knowledge of AWS Infrastructure as a Service Automation tools like Cloud Formation
- Ability to understand AWS compute, data sources, security technologies
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IAC)
- Skilled in deployment strategies using Docker for containerization
- Ability to understand the monitoring and management of the build and deployment processes and infrastructure
- Ability to analyze services to ensure security best practices are followed
- Ability to mentor and guide team members' learning, including introducing new ideas and technologies
- Ability to anticipate business needs and lead a team towards identifying and solving cross-domain problems
- Skilled in automated testing solutions for unit testing, integration testing and system testing
Preferred:
Advanced AWS cloud engineering with multi-account, security, and networking depth
Terraform as the primary IaC standard — reusable modules, multi-environment, drift management
Backstage or developer portal integration for Golden Paths and platform accelerators
Advanced CI/CD (GitLab, Jenkins) with governance gates, security scans, and reusable templates
Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes/EKS)AI-assisted development workflows and platform accelerators
Automated testing (unit/integration/system) for infrastructure and pipelines
Observability and SRE practices for platform reliability
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training
- Required: Advanced-level experience, seasoned and specialized knowledge in Cloud software or DevOps. 5-7 years of relevant work-related experience
Preferred:
Leading enterprise IaC migrations (CloudFormation → Terraform or comparable)
Contributing to reusable Terraform modules or Backstage Golden Paths used across many teams
Enterprise platform adoption, modernization, or transformation initiatives
GitLab-based CI/CD and platform automation at scale
Event-driven architectures (Kafka, EventBridge) supporting platform capabilities
AI-enabled developer tooling in production
Distributed delivery across globally distributed engineering teams
Platform engineering within a large enterprise
- Must meet confidentiality expectations as to confidential, proprietary and sensitive Company information
- Ability to work extended hours as needed
Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training
- 5-7 years of relevant Cloud software or DevOps experience (advanced-level)
- Knowledge of AWS infrastructure and IaaS automation tools such as CloudFormation
- Understanding of AWS compute, data sources, and security technologies
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
- Skilled in containerization using Docker
- Understanding of monitoring and management of build and deployment processes and infrastructure
- Ability to analyze services to ensure security best practices
- Ability to mentor and guide team members
- Skilled in automated testing solutions for unit, integration, and system testing
- Must meet confidentiality expectations for proprietary and sensitive company information
- Ability to work extended hours as needed
- Advanced AWS cloud engineering with multi-account, security, and networking depth
- Terraform as the primary IaC standard; experience building reusable modules and drift management
- Backstage or developer portal integration for Golden Paths and platform accelerators
- Advanced CI/CD at scale (GitLab, Jenkins) with governance gates, security scans, and reusable templates
- Container orchestration experience (Kubernetes / EKS)
- Experience with AI-assisted development workflows and platform accelerators in production
- Observability and SRE practices for platform reliability
- Experience leading enterprise IaC migrations (e.g., CloudFormation -> Terraform) and platform adoption
- Experience with event-driven architectures (Kafka, EventBridge)
- Experience with distributed delivery across globally distributed engineering teams
Southwest Airlines Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Southwest Airlines and has not been reviewed or approved by Southwest Airlines.
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Pay Growth & Progression — Pay progression is described as materially improving after major 2024 union agreements, especially for pilots and flight attendants. Compensation satisfaction is framed as stronger over time as step scales and seniority accumulate.
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Retirement Support — Retirement support stands out through a dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match and the presence of profit-sharing contributions that can add to retirement savings. Stock purchase access is also positioned as an additional ownership-oriented component of total rewards.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle value is elevated by extensive space-available travel privileges and broad travel-related discounts that can materially offset personal travel costs. Recognition mechanisms like points-based rewards are also positioned as an added lifestyle-oriented perk.
Southwest Airlines Insights
What We Do
At Southwest Airlines we connect People to what’s important in their lives—that also means connecting our Employees to what’s important in their lives! Our Employees value the opportunity to work hard, be creative, and have fun on the job. Southwest Airlines recognizes, respects, and values differences. By fostering a culture that embraces and utilizes our diversity, we create competitive advantages in teamwork and innovation that contribute to our overall success.
