American Airlines · 6 hours ago
Principal Engineer, IT Systems Engineering
Fort Worth, TX
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/Staff
10+ years expAmerican Airlines is a leading airline company seeking a Principal Engineer for their IT Systems Engineering team. This role involves providing technical leadership in infrastructure services, supporting Cloud Technologies, Virtual platforms, and Automation & Orchestration, while ensuring alignment with business goals and technical viability of solutions.
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Responsibilities
Communicates a clear technical roadmap on the optimal application of technology to products and services to various stakeholders, including executives, business sponsors, delivery teams and managers, and other technical staff
Leverages work across the business domains in order to align efforts and create synergies
Delivers architectural solutions that incorporate industry and company technology standards
Provides technical engineering leadership for supporting Cybersecurity across distributed environments
Significant experience in requirements analysis and use case development, with a thorough understanding of software development life cycles, development and technology tools, testing methodologies, and requirements gathering
Establishes recommendations and guidelines for the development, test, operations and application support environments
Assesses the risk of production deployment of a business critical applications, including installation and configuration readiness, performance and scalability evaluation, stability and durability evaluation, and best practices procedures
Assesses the processes that will be used to operate, support and maintain Enterprise implementation(s); refines the deployment process so that it will easily scale to fit into an enterprise scope
Actively participates in requirements analysis, proofs of concepts, RFI & RFP processes, and solution delivery
Anticipates and acts upon issues that arise, provides alternative approaches, optimal solution, and continuously improving performance of applications
Develops prototypes and concepts for new technologies and ideas with little or no guidance
Evaluates and creates new tools and techniques to facilitate effective development practices Mentors the development team and promotes ideas for useful new projects and technologies
Examines emerging technologies/technology practices and incorporates into architectural solution, when appropriate
Assists in determining Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for immediate needs/deployment and enterprise SLAs to support ongoing operations, if any
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
10 years of technical architecture and design experience
8 years infrastructure engineering experience
5 years public and private/internal cloud technologies experience
Hands-on experience in systems development in a variety of computing architectures and environments
Hands-on experience writing, testing, and maintaining Kubernetes orchestration code in Go
Proficient in infrastructure automation & orchestration
Proficient in Agile methodologies
Strong technical expertise in Kubernetes architecture and the Operator pattern
Knowledge of systems integration practices
Knowledge of networking
Significant experience in requirements analysis and use case development, with a thorough understanding of software development life cycles, development and technology tools, testing methodologies, and requirements gathering
Ability to create/reengineer integration solutions (architectures) with other enterprise standard technologies
Experience with the operations characteristics of large scale and highly available computer systems deployed in a variety of software and hardware environments
Ability to manage multiple efforts concurrently with the skills to keep complex initiatives moving forward quickly while exercising an appropriate level of procedural discipline
Proven ability to build strong and sustainable relationships with internal and external stakeholders
Ability to adapt to unexpected events, new facts, and rapidly changing circumstances
Ability to thrive in a sense-of-urgency environment and leverage best practices
Preferred
Master's in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
3 years of technical or team leadership experience
Airline industry experience
Benefits
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
Company
American Airlines
American Airlines is an airline company that operates a diverse fleet of aircraft, including narrow-body and wide-body jets. It is a sub-organization of American Airlines.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$1B2023-11-17Post Ipo Debt· $250M
2023-02-08Post Ipo Debt· $750M
2015-01-01Post Ipo Equity
Leadership Team
Doug Parker
Chairman and former CEO at American Airlines
David Seymour
Chief Operating Officer
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