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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.\nJob Description:\nAbout Us\nAt 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.\nIf 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.\nJob Summary\nDesign and build enterprise cloud infrastructure automation, pipeline automation and cloud capabilities used by the enterprise. Partner with application, security, and architecture teams to build re-usable and secure cloud infrastructure to be used by business applications. Knowledge of cloud computing industry trends and apply that knowledge to continually innovate and evolve the enterprise cloud platform.\n\nAs a Cloud DevOps Engineer - Data QA & Platform Testing, you’ll build and test the critical event-driven automation layer that connects creative intake with enterprise Digital Asset Management and publishing platforms.\nThe role focuses on low-latency event-driven webhooks, API microservices, automated CI/CD testing, and observability rather than traditional server management or legacy infrastructure maintenance.\nYou’ll serve as a technical authority for integration stability and reliability across creative platforms and cloud environments, helping ensure content renders and moves reliably across web and app experiences.\n\nResponsibilities\nOperate in a DevOps culture and team, responsible for architecture, design, development, implementation, and ongoing operations of new and emerging technology platforms\n\nImplement automation tools and frameworks for automatic code deployment (CI/CD)\n\nLead the design, development, and evolution of cloud infrastructure\n\nEstablish and/or follow procedures and standards to ensure high quality and quantity of work\n\nEstablish or follow prioritization processes to drive work and has a sense of urgency about getting work completed\n\nConsult with stakeholders to specify requirements and solutions which address business challenges and opportunities\n\nServe as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure, performing design reviews and consulting with your teams to ensure design best practices\n\nMaintain business continuity and disaster recovery processes\n\nParticipate in system and acceptance testing to ensure that systems are functionally appropriate, technically sound, and well-integrated\n\nTest and implement system and enhancements using techniques that preserve system integrity\n\nMay perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders\n\nBuild and validate event-driven automation connecting creative intake, Adobe platforms, and enterprise DAM workflows.\n\nDesign automated test suites for webhooks, event triggers, API connectors, and payload delivery across creative and publishing tools.\n\nBuild pipeline-testing scripts that run continuous-integration checks across sandbox, staging, and production content environments.\n\nManage serverless middleware supporting asset transformation and distribution services.\n\nEstablish CI/CD testing frameworks and observability standards across creative platforms and cloud environments.\n\nMonitor platform health using asset-sync latency, API failure rates, webhook timeouts, logging, and IAM security controls.\n\nPartner with downstream teams to validate rendering, performance, and latency across web and app experiences.\n\nSupport integration reliability and production readiness across Adobe Workfront, AEM, Adobe I/O, Fusion, and connected services.\n\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities\nKnowledge of AWS Infrastructure as a Service Automation tools like Cloud Formation\n\nKnowledge of AWS compute, data sources, security technologies\n\nKnowledge of infrastructure-as-code (IAC)\n\nSkilled in deployment strategies using Docker for containerization\n\nSkilled in monitoring tools\n\nAbility to mentor and guide team members' learning, including introducing new ideas and technologies\n\nAbility to anticipate business needs and lead a team towards identifying and solving cross-domain problems\n\nStrong cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering knowledge with hands-on AWS experience.\n\nStrong understanding of event-driven microservices, API connectors, webhooks, and automated CI/CD deployment pipelines.\n\nStrong automated testing and pipeline validation capability across multitenant environments.\n\nAdvanced knowledge of serverless middleware, observability, monitoring, and logging.\n\nAbility to troubleshoot performance, latency, integration failures, webhook timeouts, and IAM-related issues.\n\nStrong scripting and technical problem-solving capability using Python and SQL.\n\nEducation\nRequired: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training\n\nExperience\nRequired: Intermediate-level experience, fully functioning broad knowledge in Cloud software or DevOps\n\n2-5 years of relevant work-related experience\n\n5+ years of cloud infrastructure and DevOps engineering experience, including hands-on AWS experience.\n\nExperience validating event-driven microservices, API connectors, and automated CI/CD deployment pipelines across Adobe Workfront, AEM, Adobe I/O, and Fusion.\n\nExperience designing automated test suites for webhooks, event triggers, and payload delivery.\n\nExperience building automated pipeline-testing scripts across sandbox, staging, and production content environments.\n\nExperience using monitoring and logging tools to assess platform health and event observability.\n\nPreferred Experience\nContainer orchestration experience.\n\nAWS monitoring experience.\n\nCI/CD security and compliance experience.\n\nPython/SQL scripting experience.\n\nAkamai experience.\n\nExperience working closely with digital delivery teams to validate rendering, performance, and latency across web and app channels.\n\nOther Qualifications\nMust meet confidentiality expectations as to confidential, proprietary and sensitive Company information\n\nAbility to work extended hours as needed\n\nAbility to work onsite approximately 3 days per week and as required by the business\n\nWhy This Role\nBuild and test the event-driven automation layer connecting creative intake with enterprise DAM.\n\nImprove integration stability, reliability, observability, performance, and latency across content workflows.\n\nHelp establish automated testing and cloud reliability practices across connected creative platforms.\n\nSouthwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity 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