How you'll help us Keep Climbing (overview & key responsibilities)

The Senior Software Development Engineer is responsible for development, operations, and enhancements being built for Delta’s cloud journey. As a member of the Crew IT Team, engineer will be involved with engineering, support, and thought leadership as it relates to the platform, automation, and other related activities. This position requires working closely with internal team members, Product Owners, and other supporting IT groups.

Your Responsibilities in this role:

• Implementautomated, containerized cloud application platform solutions, with afocus on application concerns including cloud-ready distributedapplication architectures, migrating workloads to containers,containerized development workflows, and integrating container platformswith automated CI/CD pipelines

• Serveas a subject matter expert with the ability to explain and translaterelevant details of the OpenShift platform and its constituent componentsto those less familiar

• Designand develop cloud applications, features, and enhancements with anemphasis on clean, highly efficient, supportable, and well documented codefor the full technology stack

• Collaboratewith the technical teams, business teams, and product managers to ensurethat the code that is developed meets their vision

• Provideefficient solution and deliverables to shorten the project life cycle,where applicable

• Ownthe quality of the product delivered by engaging closely in testingactivities.

• Createvisual models (flowcharts, class and activity diagrams, sequence diagrams)

• Fixproblems from the development phase through the production phase, whichrequires being on call for production support

• Supportoperationally critical environment, using monitoring tools and scripts,data feeds and associated scripts, research, and analysis of productionissues, capturing logging.

• Providementorship to Junior Engineers as needed.

• Excellentcommunication skills and ability to work within the focused team.

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)

• Minimum 7 years of SoftwareDevelopment experience

• Experience in Cloud Technologies(preferably AWS) and application migration to cloud

• Experience in Agile methodologies,DevSecOps, CI/CD pipeline and Build tools (GIT, Maven, Gradle)

• Experience engineering softwarewithin an Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure or other prominententerprise cloud provider

• Expertise in Java/J2EE framework,design patterns and tools, relational DB (Oracle)

• Experience in Web applicationframeworks and API technologies like Spring Boot, JQuery, AngularJS and Swagger

• Automation-minded: Hands onexperience of writing automated tests for backend applications and data flow,using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, Ready API etc

• Experience working withcontainers, and managed container orchestrators (Kubernetes/OpenShift) in thecloud (For example AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, Red Hat OpenShift)

• Experience with Unix shellscripting.

• Ability to work well with othersin a time sensitive and team environment with minimal supervision, be resultsoriented and capable of meeting deadlines with attention to detail and followthrough

• Strong technical and non-technicalcommunication skills. Assures smooth flowing, timely transmission of criticalinformation

• Fundamental Awareness ofApplication Security principles and 12-factor application developmentprinciples is required

• Consistently prioritizes safetyand security of self, others, and personal data.

• Embraces diverse people, thinking,and styles.

• Possesses a high school diploma,GED, or high school equivalency.

• Is at least 18 years of age andhas authorization to work in the United States.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)

• AWS Certified Developer –Associate is a plus

• Experience working withcontainers, and managed container orchestrators (Kubernetes/OpenShift) in thecloud

• Experience in cloud managedservices and DB

• Knowledge and/or experience withmessaging solutions such as ActiveMQ or Kafka

Benefits and Perks to Help You Keep Climbing

• Our culture is rooted in a shared dedication to living our values – Care, Integrity, Resilience and Servant Leadership – every day, in everything we do. At Delta, our people are our success. At the heart of what we offer is our focus on Sharing Success with Delta employees. Exploring a career at Delta gives you a chance to see the world while earning great compensation and benefits to help you keep climbing along the way:

• Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives

• 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%

• New hires are eligible for up to 2-weeks of vacation. This is earned for use in the following vacation year (April 1 – March 31)

• In addition to vacation, new hires are eligible for up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period

• 10 paid holidays per calendar year

• Birthing parents are eligible for 12-weeks of paid maternity/parental leave

• Non-birthing parents are eligible for 2-weeks of paid parental leave

• Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance benefits

• Family care assistance through fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs that help with loved ones in all stages

• Holistic Wellbeing programs to support physical, emotional, social, and financial health, including access to an employee assistance program offering support for you and anyone in your household, free financial coaching, and extensive resources supporting mental health

• Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members

• Career development programs to achieve your long-term career goals

• World-wide partnerships to engage in community service and innovative goals created to focus on sustainability and reducing our carbon footprint

• Business Resource Groups created to connect employees with common interests to promote inclusion, provide perspective and help implement strategies

• Recognition rewards and awards through the platform Unstoppable Together

• Access to over 500 discounts, specialty savings and voluntary benefits through Deltaperks such as car and hotel rentals and auto, home, and pet insurance, legal services, and childcare

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