Lead Site Reliability Engineer

Honeywell • Phoenix, AZ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Lead Site Reliability Engineer here at Honeywell Aerospace Technologies, you will play a crucial role as a subject matter expert in ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of our systems and services. You will work closely with development and operations teams to implement best practices in reliability engineering, automation, and monitoring, driving improvements across our infrastructure. You will report directly to our SRE Engineering Manager and you’ll work out of our Phoenix, AZ location on a Hybrid work schedule. In this role, you will impact the efficiency and effectiveness of our operations by enhancing system reliability and performance, ultimately contributing to customer satisfaction and business success. At Honeywell Aerospace Technologies, our people leaders play a critical role in developing and supporting our employees to help them perform at their best and drive change across the company. Help build a strong, diverse team by recruiting talent, identifying, and developing successors, driving retention and engagement, and fostering an inclusive culture. We are seeking a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with strong Database Administration (DBA) skills to ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of our infrastructure and data platforms. You will work across engineering, operations, and data teams to build resilient systems, automate operations, and maintain mission‑critical databases. You'll create standardized CI/CD frameworks that empower development teams while providing hands-on support to troubleshoot and resolve their build and deployment issues. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving distributed‑systems challenges while also diving deep into database internals, performance tuning, and data reliability

Requirements

• Education: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in a technical discipline such as science, technology, engineering, mathematics.
• Experience: 4–8+ years in SRE/Platform/DevOps/Operations roles with ownership of production systems at scale.
• Cloud: Hands-on with AWS/Azure/GCP (preferably two); strong grasp of managed services trade-offs.
• Containers & Orchestration: Docker and Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE); Helm/Kustomize; service mesh familiarity (Istio).
• Observability: OpenTelemetry; metrics/logs/traces design; alerting strategies; RCA & postmortems.
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (preferred) or Cloud-native equivalents; modules, remote state, and CI integration.
• Programming & Scripting: Proficiency in Python/Go and Bash for automation, tooling, and APIs.
• Reliability Practices: SLO/error budgets, capacity planning, chaos/resilience testing, progressive delivery.
• Soft Skills: Calm under pressure, strong communication, pragmatic decision-making, and a continuous improvement mindset
• Strong SQL skills and experience with at least one major database (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, etc.)
• Deep knowledge of database internals, replication, and indexing
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, TCP/IP)
• Expertise in designing and developing reusable CI/CD pipeline templates
• Proficiency with at least two CI/CD platforms (Atlassian, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform, ARM templates, or CloudFormation)
• Cloud platform expertise (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Experience troubleshooting build and deployment issues across multiple technology stacks
• Strong Git and version control workflow knowledge
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (.NET: xUnit/NUnit, Python: pytest)
• Artifact and package management (NuGet, PyPI, Azure Artifacts, Artifactory)
• Scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash, Python)
• Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations, candidate must be a U.S. Person, which is defined as, a U.S. citizen, a U.S. permanent resident, or have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status or have the ability to obtain an export authorization.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Experience with additional programming languages (Java, Node.js, Go)
• Knowledge of frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js)
• GitOps implementation experience (ArgoCD, Flux)
• Service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd)
• Advanced deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, feature flags)
• Database CI/CD and migration automation (Entity Framework, Flyway, Liquibase)
• Security scanning tools integration (SonarQube, OWASP, Snyk)
• Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Application Insights)
• Configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Multi-cloud or hybrid cloud deployment experience
• Experience building internal developer platforms
• Creating CLI tools or IDE extensions for developer productivity
• Policy-as-code implementation (OPA, Sentinel)
• Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA, CKAD)
• Experience with monorepo tools (Nx, Turborepo, Bazel)
• API gateway and microservices architecture experience

Responsibilities

• Reliability Engineering Define and manage service SLOs/SLIs, track error budgets, and drive reliability roadmaps.
• Proactively identify reliability bottlenecks, lead remediation, and preventative actions.
• Establish CI/CD best practices and standards across the organization
• Observability & Telemetry Implement and scale metrics, logs, and traces across services (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace/Azure Monitor, ELK).
• Build actionable dashboards and alerts with noise reduction and runbooks for on-call.
• Incident Management Own on-call rotations, triage, and coordination; drive post-incident reviews and blameless RCA with clear corrective actions.
• Automate rollback/roll-forward, health checks, and verification steps.
• Performance & Capacity Conduct load and resilience testing; manage capacity planning and cost optimization (autoscaling, right-sizing, caching).
• Tune databases, queues, and network settings for throughput and latency.
• Automation & Tooling Reduce toil with automation and self-service tooling; standardize deployment and recovery procedures.
• Build reliability guardrails (chaos experiments, circuit breakers, rate limiting, backoff).
• Platform & Infrastructure Operate and harden Kubernetes clusters, container runtimes, and service meshes.
• Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - (Terraform/CloudFormation/Bicep), secrets management, and policy-as-code.
• Security & Compliance Implement DevSecOps practices: vulnerability management, dependency scanning, Identity and Access Management (IAM) hardening.
• Collaboration Partner with developers, QA, and product on design reviews, release strategies, and production readiness.
• Document standards and provide enablement sessions to elevate reliability practices.
• Create comprehensive documentation and self-service guides.
• DB Activities Administer, maintain, and optimize relational and/or NoSQL databases
• Collaborate with security teams to enforce database access controls
• Create comprehensive documentation and self-service guides.

Benefits

• In addition to a competitive salary, leading-edge work, and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields, Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package.
• This package includes employer subsidized Medical, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Accounts, EAP, and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave, Paid Time Off (for vacation, personal business, sick time, and parental leave), and 12 Paid Holidays.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level