Hosting Delivery Lead: Cloud Migration & Optimization

Collins Aerospace; Cedar Rapids (IA); Hybrid; USD 108,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401(k) plan

Tuition reimbursement

Vacation

Job summary

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Hosting Delivery Lead to modernize hosting services by guiding workload migrations and optimizing cost-efficient delivery. The role partners with infrastructure teams, cloud engineers, and leadership to move from private to scalable public cloud platforms.

You will perform hosting financial analysis, oversee CMDB improvements, and ensure compliance with cloud strategy while coordinating across multiple teams to meet migration timelines and governance standards.

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.
• Experience delivering hosting or cloud services at scale within enterprise environments.
• Strong financial analysis skills, including cost modeling and data-driven decision making.
• Hands-on experience with cloud migration activities (Azure or AWS preferred).
• Strong understanding of hosting architectures across private and public cloud environments.
• Experience improving CMDB accuracy, configuration item lifecycle management, and dependency mapping.
• Broad technical knowledge spanning virtualization, storage, networking, OS platforms (Windows/Linux), and cloud services.
• Strong data analysis capabilities with tools such as Excel, Power BI, or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead hosting delivery operations including workload readiness, migration planning, and execution from private cloud environments to public cloud platforms.
• Perform hosting financial analysis, including cost modeling, forecasting, consumption tracking, and identifying optimization opportunities.
• Conduct data analysis across hosting inventories, service consumption, and workload classification to support strategic decision-making.
• Oversee and execute CMDB cleanup and data quality improvements to ensure accurate configuration item relationships, hosting metadata, and dependency mapping.
• Collaborate with application teams, architects, and cloud operations groups to ensure hosting solutions align with RTX cloud strategy and compliance requirements.
• Coordinate delivery activities and timelines across multiple teams to ensure smooth transitions of applications and infrastructure to modern hosting platforms. Maintain operational governance processes to monitor hosting performance, availability, and cost-efficiency, implementing corrective actions where needed.
• Track and communicate migration progress, risks, and impacts to business partners and leadership.
• Identify and drive continuous improvement initiatives to streamline hosting processes, enhance data reliability, and reduce operational friction.
• Partner with vendors and outsourced service providers to ensure service levels exceed contractual requirements.
• Stay current on evolving public cloud capabilities, hosting platforms, and industry best practices.

Skills

Hosting services

Cloud migration

Financial analysis

Data analysis

CMDB quality

Vendor management

Cross-team collaboration

ITIL/LEAN knowledge

Education

University degree

Advanced degree

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Hosting Delivery Lead to modernize hosting services by guiding workload migrations and optimizing cost-efficient delivery. The role partners with infrastructure teams, cloud engineers, and leadership to move from private to scalable public cloud platforms.

You will perform hosting financial analysis, oversee CMDB improvements, and ensure compliance with cloud strategy while coordinating across multiple teams to meet migration timelines and governance standards.