Senior AWS Cloud Engineer, Retail Platforms

At Delta Air Lines, connection is at the heart of everything we do and guides our every action. We strive to welcome and care for all our customers during their travels with us and aim to deliver an elevated experience.

Delta is focused on sustaining a strong IT operation, growing our capabilities, and maximizing optimization across each of our tech hubs to elevate the travel experience for our customers and empower our 90,000 Delta people.

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior AWS Cloud Engineer with strong development skills in Java and Python, and a background in the airline or retail industry. This role focuses on building scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud-native applications using AWS, with a strong emphasis on microservices, containerization, and modern development practices.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate with the technical teams, business teams, and product managers to ensure that the code that is developed meets their vision.
• Align to Security/Compliance frameworks and controls requirements.
• Design and develop microservices using Spring Boot, RESTful APIs, and GraphQL to meet functional and technical requirements.
• Write clean, testable code in Java and Python, with unit testing using JUnit.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Use Maven or Gradle for build automation and dependency management.
• Architect and implement containerize, using Docker and orchestrate with Kubernetes, and cloud native applications.
• Work with SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL (DynamoDB, MongoDB, Redis) databases.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.
• Monitor, optimize, and secure cloud environments using AWS-native tools.
• Optimize cloud costs and performance through monitoring, automation, and best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and mentor junior engineers.

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 pro?t 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 bene?ts including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability and life insurance bene?ts
• 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

What you need to succeed (minimum qualifications)

• 5 years of experience in cloud engineering with a focus on AWS.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, with 8 years of relevant technical experience or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems with 2 years of technical experience.
• Strong programming skills in Java (Spring Boot) and Python.
• Experience with JUnit for unit testing and GraphQL for API development.
• Proficiency with Maven or Gradle for build and dependency management.
• Deep understanding of microservices architecture and API design.
• Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS container services.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services: EC2, Lambda, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, IAM, VPC, etc.
• Proficiency in SQL and NoSQL database technologies.
• Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles.
• Is at least 18 years of age and has authorization to work in the United States.

What will give you a competitive edge (preferred qualifications)

• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional).
• Experience with event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Kinesis, SNS/SQS).
• Familiarity with serverless computing and edge services (e.g., AWS Lambda@Edge, CloudFront).
• Exposure to Agile/Scrum methodologies and DevOps culture.
• Experience in the airline or retail industry, with domain-specific knowledge.

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