Senior DevOps Application Engineer

Travel + Leisure Co. is a company focused on delivering robust applications through best practice CI/CD and configuration management software engineering. The Senior DevOps Application Engineer will be responsible for the analysis, design, development, and testing of DevOps CI/CD and delivery automation, collaborating with AppDev and QA Teams to improve automation for build, test, and deployment processes.

Responsibilities:

• Develop CI/CD and Configuration Management principles supporting complex analysis, design, development and implementation of CI/CD solutions. Consists of technical expertise in design and build of CI/CD pipelines
• Collaborate with AppDev and QA Teams to provide automation improvements for highly complex business and systems solutions with appropriate CI/CD and Configuration Management processes and technologies
• Monitor and maintain CI/CD AppDev infrastructure and Configuration Management processes to ensure reliability and delivery performance
• Provide SME knowledge on best practices for version control, build management and code quality. Assist with troubleshooting and resolving build and deployment issues
• Stay current on existing and emerging CI/CD and Configuration Management tools and technologies, providing recommendations and championing new capabilities

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in information technology/computer science or related field
• PC Skills with MS Office, or equivalent
• Possesses excellent written and oral communication skills, eager to learn and grow skills and take on new responsibilities
• Leads development activities with agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
• Expert experience with highly integrated enterprise application systems/platforms, data flows, and business processes
• Experience working within formal software development methodologies
• Proven ability to think analytically, logical reasoning and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to work on a Team and good interpersonal skills
• Self-starter and completes assignments with moderate supervision
• Strong experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, Azure DevOps, etc
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines for polyglot stacks including Java, .NET/C#, React, PL/SQL/Oracle, Apigee, and similar technologies
• Experience with deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments
• Experience managing release gates, approval workflows, and environment promotion pipelines
• Strong proficiency with Git and branching strategies such as GitFlow and trunk-based development
• Experience with SCM platforms such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure Repos
• Experience with build tools such as Maven, Gradle, MSBuild, npm, and webpack
• Experience with artifact repository management tools such as JFrog Artifactory or Sonatype Nexus
• Experience with containerization technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience building, publishing, and managing container image registries (e.g., Docker Hub, AWS ECR, Azure ACR, JFrog)
• Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines (shift-left testing)
• Experience with static code analysis and quality tools such as SonarQube, ESLint, and Checkstyle
• Experience with security scanning tools (SAST/DAST/SCA) such as Snyk, Veracode, Qualys, or OWASP ZAP
• Experience with dependency vulnerability management and enforcing security quality gates in pipelines
• Proficient in scripting languages including Python, Bash/Shell, and PowerShell for pipeline, build, and operational automation
• Experience using Ansible for configuration automation, application deployment orchestration, and ad-hoc task automation
• Experience writing reusable automation scripts for tasks such as environment setup, health checks, log parsing, and deployment validation
• Familiarity with task runners and automation utilities such as Make, Rake, or Taskfile
• Experience scheduling and managing automated jobs using tools such as cron, Jenkins pipelines, or cloud-native schedulers (AWS EventBridge, Azure Logic Apps)
• Experience with AWS or Azure cloud services for application deployment, integration, and pipeline execution
• Familiarity with cloud-native CI/CD services such as AWS CodePipeline/CodeBuild or Azure DevOps Pipelines
• 8 years of experience as a software engineer, application developer or equivalent
• 3+ years in a DevOps role as a CI/CD and Configuration Management engineer with CI/CD orchestrator tools e.g., Jenkins, Maven, Ant, or similar CI/CD orchestrator tool(s)
• 2+ years of experience with a source code repository tool e.g., GitLab, GitHub
• Master's degree is a plus
• Certifications in cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure, preferred
• Experience in developing applications for Hospitality Industry preferred
• Experience working with offshore development teams