Engineer - Linux Administration

About American Airlines:

To Care for People on Life's Journey®.  We have a relentless drive for innovation and excellence. Whether you're engaging with customers at the airport or advancing our IT infrastructure, every team member plays a vital role in shaping the future of travel. 

At American’s Tech Hubs, we tackle complex challenges and pioneer cutting-edge technologies that redefine the travel experience. Our vast network and diverse customer base offer unique opportunities for engineers to solve real-world problems on a grand scale. 

Join us and immerse yourself in a dynamic, tech-driven environment where your creativity and unique strengths are celebrated. Experience the excitement of being at the forefront of technological innovation, where every day brings new opportunities to make a meaningful impact.
About Tech Hub in India :

American’s Tech Hub in Hyderabad, India, is our newest location and home to team members who drive technical innovation and engineer unrivaled digital products to best serve American’s customers and team members. With U.S. tech hubs in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas and Phoenix, Arizona, our new location in Hyderabad, India, positions American to deliver industry-leading technology solutions that create a world-class customer experience.   

Position Title: Engineer, IT Software  

Role Summary: 

As one diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivalled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline. 
Job Description:

Roles & responsibilities:

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced.  Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.   

• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices.
• Devotes time to raising the quality and craftsmanship of products and systems.
• Conducts root cause analysis to identify domain level problems and prescribes action items to mitigate.
• Anticipates trouble areas in systems under development and guides the team in instrumentation practices to ensure observability and supportability
• Defines test suites and instrumentation that ensures targets for latency and availability are being consistently met in production 
• Leads through example by prioritizing the closure of open vulnerabilities 
• Evaluates potential attack surfaces in systems under development, identifies best practices to mitigate, and guides teams in their implementation 
• Leads team in the identification of small batches of work to delivery the highest value quickly 
• Ensures reuse is a first-class consideration in all team implementations and is a passionate advocate for broad reusability
• Observes their environment and identifies opportunities for introducing new approaches to problems.

Experience Required:
Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience:

•  Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training.
• 3+ years of experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale solutions in production environments.

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience. 

• Airline Industry experience.

Skills Required:

• Windows,
• Linux
• Power Shell
• Shell Scripting

Additional Skills Required: 

• Deployment Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker
•  Source Control: GitHub, Azure DevOps 
•  CICD: GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps 
•  Data management: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis 
•  Integration/APIs Technologies: Kafka, REST, GraphQL 
•  Cloud Providers such as Azure and AWS 
•  Ability to optimize solutions for performance, resiliency and reliability while maintaining an eye toward simplicity 
•  Ability to concisely convey ideas verbally, in writing, in code, and in diagrams.
•  Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles.
•  Proficiency in Agile methodologies, such as SCRUM.
•  Proficiency in DevOps Toolchain methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.