Job Description

About Delta Air Lines
About the Company
Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability and customer experience. Powered by our employees around the world, Delta has for a decade led the airline industry in operational excellence while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world and serve as a force for social good.
In 2024, Delta was recognized by Fortune with a No. 11 placement on Fortune's Top 50 Most Admired Companies list. The company's strong management and commitment to providing elevated experiences and premium products also secured a No. 1 ranking out of the eight airlines on the list. Delta landed on TIME's inaugural list of the "World's Best Companies," coming in at No. 12 - the only U.S. airline in the top 155. TIME's award is based on three criteria: employee satisfaction, revenue growth and sustainability.
Delta's people-first culture continues to be recognized, earning the airline a spot on Fortune's 100 Best Companies to Work For list for the fifth year. Delta is the only airline included on the 2024 list.
Additionally, Delta earned a coveted spot, on Fast Company's list of the Most Innovative Companies, climbing from its No. 8 spot in 2023 to No. 2 in the travel category. The airline was recognized for its Wi-Fi revolution that is working to ensure the future of travel is connected.
About the Delta Technology Hub (DTH), Bangalore
Delta has fast emerged as a customer-focused, innovation-led, technology-enabled business. The Delta Technology Hub will contribute directly to these objectives.

About Delta Tech Hub:
Delta Air Lines (NYSE: DAL) is the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability and customer experience. Powered by our employees around the world, Delta has for a decade led the airline industry in operational excellence while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world and serve as a force for social good. Delta has fast emerged as a customer-oriented, innovation-led, technology-driven business. The Delta Technology Hub will contribute directly to these objectives. It will sustain our long-term aspirations of delivering niche, IP-intensive, high-value, and innovative solutions. It supports various teams and functions across Delta and is an integral part of our transformation agenda, working seamlessly with a global team to create memorable experiences for customers.
Key Responsibilities:

• Execute on the Incident, Change Management, Problem Management processes
• Building and supporting a reliable application suite for the environment in order to meet the development and maintenance requirements of systems/platforms.
• Provide consultation and direct technical support in life cycle planning, problem management, integration, and systems programming
• Ensure platform performance and availability meet enterprise objectives through monitoring, timely service restoration, and tuning
• Constantly working to improve and implement automation of applications tasks
• Providing technical support for systems/platforms according to application SLA's.
• Responsible for designing and developing resiliency in the application code, troubleshooting incidents, engaging with squads to address failure patterns, and participating in incident management.
• Strong Troubleshooting ability required
• Leads calls or contributes in a logical fashion
• Focus on resolving issues before they become incidents
• Identify and articulate severity of impacts using provided monitoring tools and escalate as needed
• Able to understand architecture and design of applications and identify or narrow focus for an incident based on symptoms
• Perform root cause analysis to quickly recover from service interruptions, and to prevent recurring problems
• Monitor, manage, and tune platforms to ensure expected availability and performance levels are achieved
• Identify gaps in monitoring or documentation and reaches out to appropriate teams to fill those gaps
• Implement changes to platforms with minimal impact to the business by following enterprise standards and procedures
• Design and document enterprise standards and procedures

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or industry certification in an applicable IT field, in addition to 3 years applicable experience in the design/administration/support of one or more platforms; or bachelor's degree in an IT field, in addition to two years applicable experience in the design/administration/support of one or more platforms.
• 3 or more years of experience as a Systems Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer
• 3 or more years of experience with ops automation using a scripting language such as Python or Ansible
• Site Reliability Engineering: Knowledge of the theories and methodologies of reliability engineering; ability to design, develop and support various tools, services and applications to maintain a reliable site Environment.
• Performance Measurement and Tuning: Knowledge of system performance, testing and programming; ability to monitor, measure, and optimize system performance and network communication.
• CI/CD Pipeline: Knowledge of concepts, values and tools applied in building Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery and Continuous Deployment (CD) pipeline; ability to design, build, implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines to achieve the automation of software delivery process.
• Software Release Management: Knowledge of strategies, practices and tools for managing versions and distribution of software products and enhancements; ability to evaluate and improve release management practices and tools
• Application Maintenance: Knowledge of production applications; ability to monitor application functions and resolve issues to maintain optimal conditions for system applications.
• Software Engineering: Knowledge of software engineering; ability to deliver new or enhanced software products.
• Agile Development: Knowledge of agile methodologies and the agile development lifecycle; ability to utilize formal agile methodologies, disciplines, practices and techniques for the delivery of new and enhanced applications.
• Embraces diverse people, thinking and styles

Preferred Qualifications:

• Masters degree in computer science, Information Technology or related field is preferred
• Experience and exposure to VMWare VDI implementations a huge plus
• Experience with Dynatrace APM and synthetic monitoring
• Experience with airline applications and infrastructure technology is a plus

ID: DELBP12

Skills Required