Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you.  As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life.  Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

• 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. 
• The Cloud domain refers to the area within Information Technology that focuses on the delivery of computing services—such as servers, storage, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence—provided as a service. Examples are AWS, GCS, and Azure. The implementation could be a Private, Public, or Hybrid cloud and the scope includes platform management, security, networking, storage, and enabling DevOps to support the consuming domains (Applications, AI, Data, etc.).

What you'll do

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.

• Design, Deploy, and Manage Cloud Infrastructure solution. Build scalable, secure, and resilient cloud solutions, such as Kubernetes Platform in Azure or other public cloud.  
• Collaborate with Cybersecurity, enterprise architects to define and Implement cloud solution best practices following Well-Architect Framework best practices for security, reliability, performance, and cost efficiency.  
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap, and change effectively to customers and stakeholders.  
• Drive innovation by automating infrastructure via your hands-on expertise with Infrastructure as code technologies. 
• Manage lifecycle of cloud solutions and platforms that keep the system stack up to date. 
• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices.   
• Monitor cloud systems for availability, performance, and cost efficiency, optimizing usage and resources.  
• Diagnose and resolve issues in cloud environments, providing support for internal teams and stakeholders.  
• 24/7 on call rotation supporting business critical applications or systems. Conducts root cause analysis to identify domain level problems and prescribes action items to mitigate.

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

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

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training 
• Airline Industry experience

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Proficiency with the following technologies: 
  • Programming Languages: Java, Python, C#, Javascript/Typescript, Golang 
  • Source Control: GitHub, Azure DevOps 
  • CICD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps 
  • Cloud Providers such as Azure and AWS 
  • Infrastructure as code: Terraform, YAML 
  • At least one cloud provider certification in either Azure or AWS cloud platforms. Cloud Security certification is preferred.
  • 3+ years of hands-on experience with cloud governance and policy implementation (security, compliance, tagging standards)
  • Knowledge of regulatory frameworks (CIS, NIST, GDPR, SOC 2)
  • Role-based access control (RBAC) and identity management (e.g., Azure Entra ID, AWS IAM)
  • Familiar with FinOps and cloud cost analysis and optimization
  • Tagging inheritance strategy, and cost allocation methods (showback/chargeback)
  • Cross-functional collaboration with engineering, finance and product teams
  • Ability to influence cross-functional teams to adopt cost-efficient design and operational practices.
  • Proficiency in Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban and tool such as ADO.
• Proficiency in DevOps Toolchain methodologies, including Continuous Integration and continuous deployment. 
• Ability to optimize solutions for performance, resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity. 
• Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code, and in diagrams. 
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies, such as SCRUM.

What you'll get

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer: 

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more. 
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

Feel free to be yourself at American

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world. 

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.