Date Posted: 2025-05-27 Country: United States of America Location: HIA32: Cedar Rapids, IA 400 Collins Rd NE , Cedar Rapids, IA, 52498-0505 USA Position Role Type: Onsite U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: Active and transferable U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance​ Security Clearance: DoD Clearance: Secret Are you passionate about Digital Transformation, automating systems, and working with containers and driving continuous improvement and optimization? Do you enjoy partnering and working with a cohesive set of various individuals committed to solving complex, challenging technical problems to accelerate business growth and efficiencies? If the answer to these questions is “yes”, then this is the opportunity you are looking for! The platform reliability engineer role will report into the PWE Digital Infrastructure organization to design, maintain and implement Collins business wide orchestration and container management platforms to support program software, solutions, and products. The primary responsibilities include implementing, supporting, and optimizing containerized environments-based orchestration platforms across closed area systems. Additional responsibilities include partnering within the team and across functions, engineering, and program teams and personnel to optimize the use of the platforms and products as well as bring forward new ideas, concepts, and capabilities for future platform enhancements. What you will do: Work autonomously and partner with Collins programs, engineers, and Digital Technology peers to understand their needs and solve complex problems

Partner with teams managing infrastructure, networking, and application development to forecast capacity, scaling, and demand.

Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, how it operates, tools that support it and experience ensuring highly available and reliable clusters and environments

Experience and knowledge on the Installation, configuration, maintenance, and support of Kubernetes clusters both in the cloud, on-premises, and in regulated environments

Setup, maintain and automate across various infrastructure with VMWare bare metal needs, and restricted networks

Establish monitoring tools and management dashboards integrated into platforms with best practice notifications and response processes

Basic Qualifications: Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience 10 years of professional experience working in technical fields as a leader, architect, manager, technologist, engineer, developer, or administrator.

The ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance. U.S.

Citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Experience installing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting Kubernetes clusters in on-premises and cloud infrastructure

Experience working with Rancher RKE2, OpenShift Container Platform, VMWare Tanzu, and other leading Kubernetes platforms

Qualifications We Prefer: Experience on deploying new cloud native platforms and systems in classified and/or unclassified work environments.

Experience designing and operating highly scalable, secure, high performing systems, platforms, and Kubernetes clusters

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Ability to contribute and execute projects on time and budget

Ability to translate Business and Function demands to technical requirements and tasks

Ability to clearly document and diagram technical systems

Experience working with cloud native computing foundation Kubernetes components including service mesh, service discovery, package management, observability and monitoring, runtimes, and security

Understanding of GitOps and using package management technologies with Kubernetes cluster management and operations such as ArgoCD, Packer, Helm, and Kustomize

Experience working with agile teams on product mode approaches and partnering with product owners and scrum masters to align and execute work

Implementing Kubernetes on air-gapped and regulated networks and environments

Understanding of Kubernetes based development tools such as Terraform, Helm, Python, Go, and Bash

Experience working with observability and monitoring software like Grafana, Prometheus, Alert Manager, and Loki

Experience working with Poolside environments

Constant vigilance when investigating and finding root cause of distributed system malfunctions

Ability to anticipate or adopt new innovations and advancements in the CNCF landscape to enhance the effectiveness of our products

An active and in-scope (insert level) US security clearance or the ability to obtain one

What We Offer: Some of our competitive benefits packages include: 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!

Do you want to be part of a new, exciting initiative to combine foundational IT with new digital technologies? Our Digital Technology team is driving business efficiencies and a better customer experience by connecting technologies, people, information and processes. From making aircraft more electric, intelligent and integrated to building new software platforms such as Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, and blockchain, there’s no better place to be right now than in digital. If you’re an agile thinker who enjoys utilizing modern technology to make big improvements, then you’re a perfect fit for this team. Join Collins Aerospace to help us revolutionize the aerospace industry today!