Principal Platform Engineer - Connected Aviation (Remote)

RTX

1d•Remote

About The Position

Aviation connects the world and Connected Aviation (CA) connects Aviation. Sustainably. Seamlessly. Securely. Connected Aviation (CA) is a business unit within Collins Aerospace’s Avionics portfolio which aims to bring many connectivity and digital solutions to life and fulfill Connected Ecosystem, one of the strategic pillars of our company. The Aviation Intelligence (AI) team within CA Engineering has the end-to-end responsibility to ensure that Collins Aerospace and broader RTX data assets are managed with integrity and quality while being consumed by our critical customer facing applications - whether via API’s, analytics and/or data visualizations, or data reporting. We would like to offer you an opportunity to be a Senior Platform Engineer within our team where you will play an integral role in a high growth and high visibility area of the Collins Aerospace company. As a Principal Platform Engineer on the Aviation Intelligence team, you will be responsible for leading critical projects and coordination for the department, supporting our Ascentia and FlightAware crews that focus on AI/ML projects, data science and data management.

Requirements

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience
Proficiency with Python.
Strong experience with AWS (EKS, IAM, VPCs, networking)
Hands-on Kubernetes experience operating production workloads
Experience managing Kafka (or Redpanda) in production environments
Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure as code
Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, GitHub Actions, or similar)
Solid understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and scaling
Experience supporting production data pipelines or ML systems
Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos, etc.)

Nice To Haves

Experience with Kafka Connect
Experience with Rust or a willingness to learn it.
Familiarity with Dagster, Airflow or other modern ETL orchestration tools
Background supporting ML/AI systems in production (MLOps)
Experience optimizing infrastructure for performance and cost
Familiarity with Iceberg, Spark, Elasticsearch and other large-scale data processing systems
Experience working in hybrid infrastructure environments (cloud + on-prem Kubernetes)

Responsibilities

Own and evolve AWS infrastructure supporting data platform, ML training, and analytics workloads (Iceberg/Trino, ETL pipelines, Kubeflow/MLflow)
Design, deploy, and maintain EKS-based services and Kubernetes workloads
Build and manage Terraform infrastructure across environments (dev/staging/prod)
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment (GitLab/GitHub)
Operate and improve Kafka/Redpanda clusters
Improve reliability, observability, and performance of prediction services
Support Dagster for data workflow orchestration
Collaborate with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Data Engineering to productionize models and data pipelines
Strengthen AWS IAM, networking, and connectivity between cloud and on-prem systems
Support cyber hardening efforts with our RTX cyber team
Identify and incrementally improve existing infrastructure and deployment patterns

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance
Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees
Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option
Tuition reimbursement program
Student Loan Repayment Program
Life insurance and disability coverage
Optional coverages you can buy: pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection
Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits
Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning
Adoption Assistance
Autism Benefit
Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions
Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program
Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits
Bright Horizons, child and elder care services
Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program