The Team

It should come as no surprise that Alaska Airlines is recognized as one of Seattle’s most desirable companies for engineers and technology professionals.  Our technology teams are regularly disrupting the way our guests experience air travel.  We are innovators and creators, striving to continually improve our award-winning technology in ways that make travel as simple, enjoyable and seamless as possible.  We are not content to rest on our successes.  We take pride in the fact that our ideas have become the norm across the industry, and we are always thinking about what's next!

Role Summary

This role is responsible for the engineering and reliable operations of Alaska’s Cloud and Kubernetes Platforms that support Alaska Air Group. They are responsible for executing Alaska’s Cloud strategy which includes 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.

Key Duties

• Leads a diverse technical team responsible for ensuring the reliability, efficiency and security of Cloud and Kubernetes platforms.

• Collaborate directly with Enterprise Architecture and Security to develop and plan the Cloud platforms architecture and security strategies.

• Analyze the gap and provide solutions between development team requirements and our cloud practices and strategy.

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

• Influence operations and development teams to ensure new capabilities are operationalized.

• Define the long-term strategy for cloud platforms, Kubernetes and their implementation.

• 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.

• Bachelor’s degree with a focus in a technical discipline, or an additional two years of relevant training/ experience in lieu of this degree.

• Experience with:

• Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Docker and Kubernetes - Container Builds, Hosting, and Orchestration

• Modernizing highly complex and critical applications to modern cloud architectures

• Cloud Architectural Design and Review, Patterns and Practices Implementation

• Infrastructure as Code (ARM, Terraform, etc), Azure DevOps, CI/CD

• Proven ability to build, coach, and mentor teams.

• Adaptive leader, sensitive to the needs of the team, and creating a culture of belonging.

• Loves learning and development, embraces the practice of service leadership, and builds teams that are engage, thrive, and deliver results.

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• Minimum age of 18.

• Must be authorized to work in the U.S.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

• Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be kind-hearted, deliver performance, and be remarkable.

• Create a diverse and inclusive culture where all employees feel safe, included and they belong.

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement

Where permitted by applicable law, new hires must have received the COVID-19 vaccine. The Company will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified employees with disabilities or for a sincerely held religious belief.

Total Rewards

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

• Competitive total rewards package

• Medical, dental and vision benefits

• 401k match program

• Monthly incentive pay plan

• Annual incentive pay plan

• Generous paid time off

• Travel privileges on Alaska Airlines & Horizon Air