The Team

It may come as a surprise, but we’re recognized as one of Seattle’s most desirable companies for IT workers. Our culture of collaboration, history of launching industry-leading products, and seasoned teams that work at the highest levels of software development help us to pioneer technologies that are creating an airline people love. We support our people’s ongoing development and, of course, provide the space for you and your loved ones to travel the world.

Role Specific Details

This position is a dedicated team player that is knowledgeable in creating processes, procedures, guidelines, and standardization. Able to research and gather requirements for automation: build, test, and deploy automation workflows using industry standard tools with minimal oversight. Research and gather requirements for monitoring, design, build, test, and implementation with efficiency, and make for a dramatically better overall customer experience.

Role Summary

The Principal Enterprise Systems Engineer is a subject matter expert for multiple technologies for Alaska Air Group (AAG) and its subsidiaries. As an individual contributor, this role defines long-term strategy for the ITS team and exercises considerable latitude and initiative to solve complex problems. They must demonstrate expert skills in Leadership, Project Management, Containerization/Automation, Cloud, Hardware/Software Architecture & Best Practice, Security & Compliance, and Enterprise Architectures.

Key Duties

• Act as a subject matter expert and enterprise technology thought leader on AAG platforms.

• Define the long-term strategy (at least 12 months) for AAG platforms and their implementation.

• Act as a product owner for Containerization Technologies – Define long-term roadmaps, make decisions on tactical needs of the technical team while developing user stories, setting priority and backlog grooming.

• Focused on continuous improvement in system reliability through automation and monitoring.

• Lead cross divisional enterprise infrastructure projects related to Automation and Cloud initiatives.

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

• Lead vendor management to better understand future capabilities while advocating for features that are beneficial to Alaska.

• Act as a forward thinker to help ensure that new capabilities are evaluated, implemented, and operationalized.

Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills

Required

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

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

• Technical engineering experience required.

• Professional experience with Cloud, Containers, Automation, DevOps Best Practices, CI/CD methodology, Information Security principles.

• Ability to work collaboratively with cross functional teams to understand objectives, gather automation requirements, write technical specifications, and perform in a lead role.

• Demonstrate experience in coaching and mentoring system engineers.

• Experience estimating effort and establishing timelines for projects.

• Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to collaborate with a variety of team members.

• High school diploma or equivalent.

• Minimum age of 18.

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

Preferred

• Experience applying Agile methodologies, system development lifecycles, DevOps best practices.

• Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code.

• Deploy and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple environments.

• Experience with implementing all components of automation.

• Automate our operational processes as needed, with accuracy and in compliance with our security requirements, all while ensuring that all meet our customer service standards and reduce errors.

• Experience with containerization, clustering, service mesh, pipeline automation (Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, GKE, AKS).

• Experience with hosted cloud environments (Azure, AWS, Google).

• Experience conveying knowledge to diverse groups of people, such as classes, brown bag meetings, or seminars to ensure a consistent application of standards is established.

Job-Specific Leadership Expectations

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

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

• 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

Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time on 1/1/2022
Employment Type Full-Time
FLSA Status Exempt
Regular/Temporary Regular
Requisition ID 2021-6827
Equal Employment Opportunity Alaska Airlines and Horizon Air are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer that is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression), national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, genetic information (including family medical history) or other legally protected characteristics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will also be considered for employment, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law. People of color, women, LGBTQIA+, immigrants, veterans and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply. We are an E-Verify Â® employer, where required by law.