Southwest Airlines — India Office
Department: Technology
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Job Description: About Us At Southwest Airlines, we believe that flying should feel like freedom. For over 50 years, we’ve been connecting people to what matters most with low fares, legendary hospitality, and a heart for service. Our culture is built on the principles of fun, friendliness, and family, making us one of the most admired workplaces in the world.
If you’re passionate about making a difference, love working in a fast-paced environment, and want to help millions of travelers reach their destinations with a smile, Southwest Airlines is the place for you. Here, your career can truly take flight.
Job Summary As a Scrum Master – DevOps Tooling & Pipelines, you'll help drive the delivery of the engineering platforms that every Southwest Technology Team depends on to build, secure, and release software. You'll join the DevOps Tooling & Pipelines Pod, the Team responsible for the enterprise software supply chain, supporting critical capabilities such as code quality, artifact management, container registries, CI/CD, and secure software delivery.
In this role, you'll partner closely with Product Owners, Technology Leaders, and Engineering Teams to facilitate Agile delivery, remove impediments, and enable the successful execution of large-scale platform modernization initiatives across cloud-native engineering, DevSecOps, Kubernetes, Terraform, automation, and developer experience.
By fostering Agile best practices, driving transparency, and helping Teams reach peak productivity, you'll play a key role in accelerating innovation across Southwest while contributing to the growth of a high-performing engineering culture that empowers both individual and Company success.
Responsibilities • Organize and facilitate planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, sprint and release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Serve as the team’s radiator, ensuring necessary internal and external communication, while improving overall transparency
• Ensure the development teams are practicing the core Agile values, practices and principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability, and visibility
• Look for avenues to increase the productivity effectiveness of the teams in any way possible
• Assist team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, task definition
• Add value to the team and organization and coach the team up
• May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities • Ability to demonstrate capacity in airport/airline operations, airport finances, contracts, and high regard for interpersonal relationships • Ability to produce working contracts among different stakeholders such as definition of done, scope lock, acceptance of work etc. • Skilled in strong organization and communication • Skilled in utilizing strong problem-solving in an unstructured environment as a self-starter • Skilled in planning, preparing for, and leading meetings • Ability to demonstrate and maintain an extremely high regard for confidential and sensitive information • Skilled in SAFe
Education • Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related field and/or equivalent formal training
Experience • Required: Intermediate-level experience, fully functioning broad knowledge in: • Scrum framework and Kanban methods • Velocity and flow metrics • Techniques for increasing team effectiveness • 2-5 years of relevant work-related experience • Scrum; SAFe; Agile delivery metrics
• Preferred • AI-enabled delivery • Automation • Developer platforms • CI/CD concepts; Jira; Apptio Target process
Other Qualifications • Must meet confidentiality expectations as to confidential, proprietary and sensitive Company information • Ability to work extended hours as needed
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