WestJet

Engineer

WestJet$92K — $110K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or Information Security and 5+ years of experience preferred
  • Expert problem-solving skills and advanced interpersonal communication skills
  • Broad knowledge of IT, including application support, network and system administration, and quality assurance
  • Strong understanding of development architecture such as API and web services
  • Expert understanding of cloud, infrastructure/platform engineering, architecture, and DevSecOps
  • Strong experience with Azure Integration Services and familiarity with network protocols
  • Hands-on experience in platform configuration and security methodologies

Responsibilities

  • Plans, designs, implements, optimizes, and supports commercial integration platforms
  • Applies advanced knowledge and serves as a top resource across the organization
  • Makes decisions on complex issues and provides direction for team projects
  • Advises management on significant matters and provides recommendations
  • Works on unique assignments requiring in-depth analysis and creativity
  • Independently determines methods and procedures for new assignments
  • Guides and mentors staff while resolving novel problems

Benefits

  • A fun and friendly culture with a collaborative team environment
  • Travel privileges for you and your family starting from your first day
  • Flexible savings and benefit programs tailored to individual needs
Full Job Description
This position requires in-person collaboration up to five days a week. This arrangement is subject to change based on business requirements.

Overview of role:

The Engineer is accountable for planning, designing, implementing, optimizing, and supporting commercial integration platforms and applications. This includes application, data, infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, and service management platforms. The role collaborates closely with data analytics, DevOps, cybersecurity, architecture, infrastructure, and product engineering teams. You may join a team of architects, developers, and subject matter experts to design, develop, and deploy solutions supporting integration.

Key deliverables / responsibilities include:

  • Applies advanced in-depth and/or broad knowledge and considered a top resource across the organization
  • Demonstrates expert knowledge in own field, with a strong understanding of adjacent areas for the development of pragmatic and creative solutions
  • Makes decisions on highly complex issues and provides direction regarding approach and project components for team(s)
  • Regularly makes decisions under minimal guidance that have a significant impact on the organization's financial and business operations
  • Advises one or more areas, programs, or functions and provides recommendations to management on matters of significance
  • Works on unique and highly complex assignments/projects
  • Work assignments involve highly complex issues where the analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of intangibles or unprecedented situations
  • Translates highly complex business and technical needs into objectives, plans, specifications, resources, and long-term goals
  • Subject matter expert who possesses advanced knowledge of the work specialty and organization
  • Serves as an advisor to management and drives appropriate actions, while ensuring implementation of compliance and communication protocols
  • Frequently takes full ownership of difficult assignments
  • Works independently across multiple areas. Receives general business direction, as needed
  • Independently determines methods and procedures on new assignments and often coordinates activities/provides technical guidance to others
  • Achieves goals in creative and novel ways, operating with significant autonomy
  • Guides and mentors staff and provides advice to management on highly complex/strategic issues
  • Often provides input to management into performance reviews for staff
  • Demonstrates initiative, creativity and advanced innovation skills
  • Devises new methods and procedures using strong analytical and inductive thinking
  • Introduces specialized concepts to develop innovative business solutions. Serves as an advisor, mentor, and/or helps drive new initiatives
  • Often operates in ambiguous situations and provides original/innovative process/technical guidance to others
  • Resolves novel problems requiring creative application of advanced skill, training, and education
  • Participation in on-call support rotation required


Experience and qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems or Information Security and 5+ years of experience is preferred, or an equivalent combination of training and experience
  • Nice to have decent knowledge on Java , springboot application deployments and automations
  • Must have build CI/CD pipelines using terraform, ansible or any other coding language
  • Appropriate licenses and certifications will be an asset
  • Requires expert problem-solving skills and advanced interpersonal and communication skills including influencing others
  • Broad knowledge of all aspects of IT, including application support (operational), network and system administration, quality assurance, and application and data management
  • Strong understanding of development architecture such as API, web services, etc.
  • Expert understanding of cloud, infrastructure/ platform engineering, architecture, DevSecOps and application development / engineering
  • Familiar with network protocols and networking infrastructure and good knowledge of network threat landscape and controls to address them
  • Strong working experience Azure Integration services such as APIM , App services, AKS , function apps, event hub
  • Nice to have:
    • IBM Middleware Integration services such as IBM MQ, Datapower and ACE
    • Nice to have working experience on Kafka
    • Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment using Terraform, Bicep or any other automation language
  • Hands-on experience in platform configuration, policy fine-tuning, optimization and maintenance
  • Experience with creation of custom rules and signatures
  • Familiar with security by design methodologies applied to technology and security services
  • Demonstrate experience with languages such as Python, Bash, Powershell


The benefits of being a WestJetter:

WestJet provides all WestJetters with a competitive total rewards package. On top of that, we offer:

  • A fun and friendly culture with colleagues who work together to win
  • Travel privileges for you and your family, effective from your start date
  • Savings and Benefit programs that are flexible to meet your specific needs


Think we're a great fit? Apply now!

About WestJet

WestJet is a Canadian airline founded in 1996. It began as a low-cost alternative to the country's competing major airlines. WestJet provides scheduled and charter air service to more than 100 destinations in Canada, the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. WestJet is currently the second-largest Canadian air carrier, behind Air Canada, operating an average of 777 flights and carrying over 66,130 passengers per day. WestJet is a public company with more than 14,000 employees, and is not part of any airline alliance. It operates three variants of the Boeing 737 Next Generation family, as well as Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
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