Principal Site Reliability Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Engage in efforts to automate and enhance reliability while advancing the ARINCDirect infrastructure, ensuring it remains resilient and reproducible.

• Take charge of service availability, performance metrics, monitoring, incident response, and capacity planning.

• Develop, enhance, and oversee environments to ensure that decisions regarding resource allocation, problem identification, and capacity planning are based on precise, data-driven insights.

• Manage a physical infrastructure utilizing Linux.

• Assist in driving the transition towards Kubernetes and declarative infrastructure.

• Influence technology decisions and directions that contribute to the growth and support of the ARINCDirect platform.

• Work collaboratively with fellow SREs within your team and extend your cooperation across other teams and disciplines to create reliable and scalable solutions and services.

• Recognize, implement, and advocate for process improvements to boost productivity, collaboration, and delivery efficiency while ensuring alignment with company objectives and industry best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) is typically required, along with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience; alternatively, an Advanced Degree in a related field with a minimum of 5 years of experience, or if no degree, 12 years of relevant experience.

• Must possess authorization to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future; RTX will not provide sponsorship for this position.

• Experience as an SRE, Platform Engineer, or in a similar role within a Linux or UNIX environment, dealing with large, intricate infrastructures and/or projects utilizing Docker and Kubernetes solutions.

• Proficiency in automating configuration and infrastructure using tools such as Saltstack, Ansible, Terraform, or other declarative languages.

• Familiarity with hardware, including servers, network switches, and cabling.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.

• Generous 401(k) plan that features employer matching funds and a separate employer retirement contribution, along with a Lifetime Income Strategy option.

• Tuition reimbursement program.

• Student Loan Repayment Program.

• Life insurance and disability coverage.

• Optional coverages available for purchase, including pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal services, and ID theft protection.

• Benefits for birth, adoption, and parental leave.

• Ovia Health services for fertility and family planning.

• Adoption Assistance.

• Autism Benefit.

• Employee Assistance Plan offering up to 10 free counseling sessions.

• Healthy You Incentives, a wellness rewards program.

• Doctor on Demand for virtual doctor visits.

• Bright Horizons child and elder care services.

• Teladoc Medical Experts for second opinion services.

• And more!