Sr Engineer, IT Software

About AA Tech Hub IndiaAmerican’s Tech Hub in Hyderabad, India, is our latest technology office location and home to team members who drive technical innovation and engineer unrivaled digital products to best serve American’s customers and team members. With U.S. tech hubs in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona, our new team in Hyderabad, India enables better support of our 24/7 operation and positions American to deliver industry-leading technology solutions that create a world-class customer experience.Job DescriptionPosition Title:Engineer, IT SoftwareRole Summary:
As one diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivaled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline.
Job Description:Roles & responsibilities:

• As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.
• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices
• Devotes time to raising the quality and craftsmanship of products and systems
• Conducts root cause analysis to identify domain level problems and prescribes action items to mitigate
• Designs self-contained systems within a team’s domain, and leads implementations of significant capabilities in existing systems
• Coaches team members in the execution of techniques to improve reliability, resiliency, security, and performance
• Decomposes intricate and interconnected designs into implementations that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers
• Anticipates trouble areas in systems under development and guides the team in instrumentation practices to ensure observability and supportability
• Defines test suites and instrumentation that ensures targets for latency and availability are being consistently met in production
• Leads through example by prioritizing the closure of open vulnerabilities
• Evaluates potential attack surfaces in systems under development, identifies best practices to mitigate, and guides teams in their implementation
• Leads team in the identification of small batches of work to delivery the highest value quickly
• Ensures reuse is a first class consideration in all team implementations and is a passionate advocate for broad reusability
• Formally mentors teammates and helps guide them to and along needed learning journeys
• Observes their environment and identifies opportunities for introducing new approaches to problems

Experience Required :
Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 5+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale solutions in production environments

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• Airline Industry experience

Skills Required:

• Kubernetes
• Maintain K8s clusters
• Monitor and alert the development team.
• Contribute to maintaining the SRE and Terraform platforms and tools.
• Hand’s-on contributions in trouble shooting, resolving K8s vulnerabilities, help the developer to navigate through the clusters.

Additional Skills Required:

• Java (basic)
• Linux (basic)
• Proficiency in DevOps / SRE