Southwest Airlines
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southwest.com
Job details:
Department
Technology
Our Company Promise
We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. 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.
Job Description
Job Summary
- Design, deploy, and support AWS networking services including VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53, Site-to-Site VPN, Internet Gateway, and NAT Gateway to enable secure and scalable hybrid-cloud connectivity.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement new network solutions and/or improving the efficiency of current networks
- Install, configure and support network equipment
- Procure network equipment and managing subcontractors involved with network installation
- Configure routing and switching to maximize network efficiency and security
- Recommend changes to improve network configurations and determine hardware or software requirements related to such changes
- Provide technical support to junior staff
- Provide technical guidance or support for the development or troubleshooting of systems
- Configure and troubleshoot BGP routing between on-premises networks and AWS using Direct Connect Gateways, Transit Gateway route tables, Virtual Private Gateways, and VPN attachments to maintain highly available network paths.
- Support container and application networking for Amazon EKS, ECS, and EC2 environments, including load balancing with Application Load Balancers (ALB), Network Load Balancers (NLB), and Gateway Load Balancers (GWLB).
- Automate AWS network deployments using Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, GitHub, and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring consistency, repeatability, and compliance with enterprise networking standards.
- Monitor and troubleshoot cloud networking using CloudWatch, VPC Reachability Analyzer, Traffic Mirroring, VPC Flow Logs, performing root cause analysis for connectivity and performance issues.
- Collaborate with Cloud, Security, and Infrastructure teams to deploy and maintain multi-account AWS environments utilizing AWS Organizations, Shared Services VPCs, Transit Gateway architectures, and centralized egress designs.
- May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities
- Ability to analyze and resolve problems
- Knowledge of hardware components, systems, software, and networking technologies
- Ability to mentor/guide others to perform troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, solution development, and implementation within specific technology areas
- Skilled in partnering, negotiation, and communication in working with Business Customers and Technology support
- Ability to prioritize effectively and take on multiple concurrent assignments, whether administrative or project related, while maintaining a successful level of completion in all responsible self-work and/or the work of others
- Ability to develop, present, and effectively communicate complex ideas and strategies in both technical and user-friendly language to a variety of audiences
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced, team-based, Customer service-oriented environment with a high regard for hospitality
- Skilled in troubleshooting, analyzing and resolving network traffic and issues
Education
- Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information systems or similar fields of study or equivalent advanced level experience
Experience
- Intermediate level experience, fully functioning broad knowledge in:
- Industry-related experience as a Network Engineer
- Network hardware/platforms (Cisco IOS, Cisco NXOS)
- Communication protocols (TCP/IP) and routing protocols
- WAN connectivity
- Network diagnostic, monitoring and analysis tools (e.g., Wireshark)
- 2-5 years of relevant work-related experience
- 3-5 years of experience in network engineering or cloud computing
- Preferred:
- Experience with:
- AWS VPC
- AWS Transit Gateway
- AWS Direct Connect
- Route 53
- Site-to-Site VPN
- AWS Network Firewall
- Security Groups / NACLs
- ALB / NLB
- VPC Flow Logs
- CloudWatch
- CloudFormation or Terraform
- EKS networking
- CASB
- In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, DNS, DHCP, and Layer 4/Layer 7 load balancing.
Other Qualifications
- Must meet confidentiality expectations as to confidential, proprietary and sensitive Company information
- Ability to work extended hours as needed
Southwest Airlines is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Job Posting End Date
08/03/2026
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