Hosting Delivery Lead (Hybrid)

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

Date Posted: 2026-08-05

Country: United States of America

Location: US-NC-CHARLOTTE-2730 ~ 2730 W Tyvola Rd ~ TYVOLA

Position Role Type: Hybrid

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements: U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.

Security Clearance Type: None/Not Required

Security Clearance Status: Not Required

Collins Aerospace is a leader in technologically advanced, intelligent solutions that help redefine the aerospace and defense industry. With a comprehensive portfolio and deep technical expertise, we help customers meet the demands of the global market. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

As a Hosting Delivery Lead at Collins Aerospace, you will play a critical role in modernizing and optimizing our hosting services by leading workload migrations, improving operational data quality, and ensuring financially responsible delivery of hosting solutions. You will partner closely with infrastructure teams, application owners, cloud engineering, and leadership to drive the transition from private cloud environments to scalable, secure, and cost-optimized public cloud platforms.

• This is a hybrid-based position at one of Collins’ major facilities.

What YOU will do:

• 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.

Qualifications YOU Must Have:

• 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.
• U.S. Citizen - U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract.
• 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.
• Ability to quickly learn, evaluate, and apply new technologies to hosting challenges. Strong data analysis capabilities with tools such as Excel, Power BI, or similar platforms.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience driving data center or cloud transition programs.
• Demonstrated project management experience delivering complex infrastructure initiatives.
• Ability to collaborate with both technical and business stakeholders to define hosting solutions.
• Experience working with outsourced partners and managing vendor relationships.Strong problem‑solving skills and root-cause analysis experience.
• Familiarity with ITIL, LEAN, or continuous improvement methodologies.
• High attention to detail and strong commitment to service excellence.

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!

Please consider the following role type definitions as you apply for this role.

Hybrid: Employees who are working in Hybrid roles will work regularly both onsite and offsite. Ratio of time working onsite will be determined in partnership with your leader.

Regardless of your role type, collaboration and innovation are critical to our business and all employees will have access to digital tools so they can work with colleagues around the world – and access to Collins sites when their work requires in-person meetings.

At Collins, the paths we pave together lead to limitless possibility. And the bonds we form – with our customers and with each other -- propel us all higher, again and again.

The salary range for this role is 107,500 USD - 204,500 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective‑bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective‑bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process, candidates may be asked to attend select steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations, regardless of whether the role is designated as on‑site, hybrid or remote.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.