IT Systems Engineer — Automation & Cloud

American Airlines; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 28,000 - 41,000; Full time

Job summary

American Airlines is seeking an Engineer, IT Systems in Columbus to design, develop, and deliver automation tooling for enterprise IT infrastructure across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You will collaborate with IT leaders, analysts, product owners, and engineers to understand needs, maintain tooling, troubleshoot complex issues, and explore new technologies to improve security, efficiency, and scalability. This is a hands-on role focused on pipeline automation and platform reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2 years of experience in setting up and integrating CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.
• Experience with Puppet (preferred) and Ansible.
• Experience with cloud platforms.
• Strong knowledge of networking basics and security practices.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leaders, business analysts, product owners, IT architects and engineers to define requirements.
• Maintain and improve existing tooling.
• Troubleshoot complex issues and implement solutions.
• Explore and adopt new technologies to improve processes, security, and performance.
• Support CI/CD pipelines and automation tooling.

Skills

DevOps tooling

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Networking basics

GitHub

Education

Bachelor's degree in software engineering

Tools

Puppet

Ansible

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

American Airlines is seeking an Engineer, IT Systems in Columbus to design, develop, and deliver automation tooling for enterprise IT infrastructure across on‑prem and cloud environments.

You will collaborate with IT leaders, analysts, product owners, and engineers to understand needs, maintain tooling, troubleshoot complex issues, and explore new technologies to improve security, efficiency, and scalability. This is a hands-on role focused on pipeline automation and platform reliability.