Senior Principal Platform Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-05-28

Country:

United States of America

Location:

TX234: Richardson 1717 CityLine 1717 East CityLine Drive Building C17, Richardson, TX, 75082 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: TS/SCI

Raytheon Company, Managed By Collins Aerospace.

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market. 

Collins Aerospace is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Principal Platform Engineer to support the development and implementation of common platform service products focused on Cloud Native Edge systems. This exciting opportunity will involve working with a team to leverage your expertise in cloud native container orchestration platforms and service mesh technologies.

What You Will Do​

• Collaborate with a team to develop products for the project using a variety of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools.
• Manage and maintain assigned documents in accordance with established procedures.
• Develop modernized software infrastructure products utilizing DevOps tools such as Ansible, Chef, and the Atlassian Tool suite.
• Build scripts to automate processes using Python, Bash, and Ruby.
• Support cloud-based products such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Gov Cloud as needed.
• Complete assigned tasks to meet program schedule milestones.

Qualifications You Must Have 

• Hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting cloud native container orchestration platforms, Service Mesh, automated infrastructure testing of large system deployments using Ansible, Terraform, Docker, and Jenkins (Ansible and Terraform highly preferred), Linux, Kubernetes, and code/artifact control tools such as Git.
• Senior level technical consulting experience including experience interfacing with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience.
• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued TS/SCI security clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications We Prefer​

• Knowledge of enterprise application development and deployment processes.
• Experience with small form-factor computer infrastructures (ARM, 3U VPX, FPGA) and using RTX Modern Software Factory development environment.
• Exposure to public cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.) infrastructure environments.
• Experience with HashiCorp products including Consul, Vault, Nomad, and Terraform.
• Knowledge of Cloud Native at the Tactical Edge.

What We Offer​

• 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.  ​
• And more!  

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Learn More & Apply Now!​

Do you want to be a part of something bigger? A team whose impact stretches across the world, and even beyond? At Collins Aerospace, our Mission Systems team helps c