Principal Site Reliability Engineer - ARINCDirect (Onsite)

RTX•Annapolis, MD

18h•Onsite

About The Position

The ARINCDirect team within Collins Aerospace is searching for an enthusiastic and process-driven, Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to "automate themselves out of a job." The Site Reliability Engineering team embraces infrastructure automation, release engineering, and continuous delivery. As part of the Platform and Operations team, our SREs work alongside highly effective and talented counterparts, interacting closely with all facets of the Engineering organization. This role requires a fusion of skills in development, analytics and hardware to solve problems in an exciting and demanding environment. ARINCDirect Engineering consists of teams that develop and deliver an array of services powering its commercial products. These teams tackle a broad set of technologies and solve challenging technical and product problems daily. The ARINCDirect technology suite facilitates flight operations for commercial and private aircraft. The products cover all aspects of flight support services, including planning, weather, connectivity, and support, ensuring safe and reliable travel. Regardless of role, we expect excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all hires at ARINCDirect. We look for candidates who will thrive here, meaning they demonstrate clear communication, embrace open feedback, trust their colleagues, and are driven to execute, deliver, and complete projects independently and efficiently.

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 or in absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience.
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. RTX will not offer sponsorship for this position.
Experience as a SRE, Platform Engineer, or related position within a Linux or UNIX environment working on large, complex infrastructures and/or projects using Docker and Kubernetes solutions
Experience automating configuration and infrastructure with tools such as Saltstack, Ansible, Terraform or other declarative languages.
Experience with hardware; including servers, network switches, & cabling.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing infrastructure using GitOps with continuous delivery (CD) pipelines
Established proficiency in at least one (ideally more) of the following: Python, Linux Shell (bash, awk, sed).
Experience with PostgreSQL, or equivalent RDBMS and SQL in general.
Familiarity with Cloud infrastructure, ideally AWS.
Understanding of SRE principles including building observability solutions and exposing metrics to inform SLO's and KPI's.
Understanding of how IT infrastructure services work, including: DNS, DHCP, LDAP, NFS.
Understanding of network segmentation, routing and VPNs.

Responsibilities

Spend your days working to automate and improve reliability and continue to push the ARINCDirect infrastructure forward, ensuring it is resilient and reproducible.
Be responsible for service availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.
Create, improve, and manage environments to ensure decisions on resource allocation, problem identification, and capacity planning are based on accurate data-driven insights.
Maintain a physical infrastructure using Linux
Help facilitate a push towards Kubernetes and declarative infrastructure
Impact technology decision and direction to grow and support the ARINCDirect platform.
Collaborate closely with fellow SREs on your team and extend your collaboration across other teams and disciplines to design dependable and scalable solutions and services.
Identify, implement, and champion process improvements to enhance productivity, collaboration, and delivery efficiency, while ensuring alignment with company goals and industry best practices.

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
Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.