Principal Cloud Test Architect — Kubernetes & CI/CD

Collins Aerospace; Aurora (CO); On-site; USD 107,500 - 204,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Three weeks of vacation for newly-hire

Generous 401(k) plan with employer 401

Job summary

Collins Aerospace, part of RTX, seeks engineers to develop and sustain cloud-native testing for HBMAS with automated frameworks. You will ensure test coverage across CI/CD pipelines, integrate security gates, and collaborate across software, DevOps, and security teams to deliver reliable systems.

Role requires active TS/SCI clearance and onsite work in Aurora, CO, with travel up to 25%. The team emphasizes quality, resiliency, and scalable testing in a cutting-edge defense environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience architecting test strategies and automated test frameworks for cloud-native, microservice-based applications.
• Strong proficiency with Kubernetes, container orchestration, and testing distributed systems deployed in modern CI/CD environments.
• Ability to design scalable, maintainable test solutions aligned with engineering architecture, coding standards, and secure development workflows.
• Expertise in validating security requirements, enforcing security gates in CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring compliance with DevSecOps best practices.
• Demonstrated success driving code quality through automated testing, CI, API validation, and contract-testing patterns.

Responsibilities

• Architect, maintain, and optimize automated test frameworks for cloud-native apps in Kubernetes environments.
• Design and implement automated testing across CI/CD pipelines (integration, regression, API, contract, performance, security).
• Integrate security, resiliency, and quality controls into the pipeline for secure delivery.
• Collaborate with software engineering, DevOps, SRE, security, and product teams on architecture and objectives.
• Use observability tools to validate system behavior and diagnose issues in microservices.
• Lead root-cause analysis to drive reliability, scalability, and performance improvements.
• Support sustainment and new feature development by evolving test coverage with changing architecture.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Automation testing

Contract testing

Security testing

Observability tools

Root-cause analysis

Agile delivery

DevSecOps

Education

STEM degree

Advanced degree

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Sonobuoy

Kyverno

OPA

Chaos Mesh

LitmusChaos

Prometheus

Grafana

Jaeger

OpenSearch

Job description

Collins Aerospace, part of RTX, seeks engineers to develop and sustain cloud-native testing for HBMAS with automated frameworks. You will ensure test coverage across CI/CD pipelines, integrate security gates, and collaborate across software, DevOps, and security teams to deliver reliable systems.

Role requires active TS/SCI clearance and onsite work in Aurora, CO, with travel up to 25%. The team emphasizes quality, resiliency, and scalable testing in a cutting-edge defense environment.