Principal Site Reliability Engineer - ARINCDirect
Date Posted:
2026-07-15 Country:
United States of America Location:
US-VA-REMOTE Position Role Type:
Remote
U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:
Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the company’s immigration sponsorship now or in the future. The company will not offer immigration sponsorship for this position. The company will not seek an export authorization for this role. Security Clearance Type:
None/Not Required Security Clearance Status:
Not Required
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.
What You Will Do:
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Spend your days working to automate and improve reliability and continue to push the ARINCDirect infrastructure forward, ensuring it is resilient and reproducible.
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Be responsible for service availability, performance, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.
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Create, improve, and manage environments to ensure decisions on resource allocation, problem identification, and capacity planning are based on accurate data-driven insights.
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Maintain a physical infrastructure using Linux
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Help facilitate a push towards Kubernetes and declarative infrastructure
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Impact technology decision and direction to grow and support the ARINCDirect platform.
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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.
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Identify, implement, and champion process improvements to enhance productivity, collaboration, and delivery efficiency, while ensuring alignment with company goals and industry best practices.
What You Will Learn:
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Gain a deep understanding of the systems and infrastructure that support ARINCDirect’s applications and services; this includes networking, operating systems, databases, and other relevant technologies.
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Gain expertise in designing and maintaining high-availability architectures for critical systems, ensuring continuous availability and performance for ARINCDirect’s customer base.
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Further develop skills in automation and scripting to streamline operational tasks and improve efficiency.
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Will participate in shared on-call rotation with SRE team.
Qualifications You Must Have:
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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.
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Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future. RTX will not offer spon