Senior Platform Engineer - AWS ML & Data Infra (Remote)

Prattwhitney; Washington; Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) plan with matching

Tuition reimbursement

Life insurance

Job summary

Collins Aerospace seeks a Senior Platform Engineer for the Aviation Intelligence team to lead critical data and ML infrastructure initiatives. You will own AWS-based data platforms, design containerized services, and drive reliability across production pipelines.

Collaborate with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Data Engineering to productionize models and data workflows, while strengthening security and cloud/on-prem connectivity.

Qualifications

• Degree in STEM with extensive relevant experience ( typically 7–10+ years).
• Proficiency with Python.
• Strong experience with AWS including EKS, IAM, VPCs, networking.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience operating production workloads.
• Experience managing Kafka (or Redpanda) in production.
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure as code.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with GitLab or GitHub Actions.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and scaling.
• Experience supporting production data pipelines or ML systems.
• Experience with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos).
• Preferred: Kafka Connect, Rust, Dagster, Airflow, or other ETL tools.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve AWS infrastructure supporting data platform, ML training, and analytics workloads.
• Design, deploy, and maintain Kubernetes workloads.
• Build and manage Terraform infrastructure across environments.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infra and app deployment.
• Operate and improve Kafka/Redpanda clusters.
• Improve reliability and observability of prediction services.
• Collaborate with Data Science and ML teams to productionize models and data pipelines.
• Strengthen AWS IAM, networking, and cloud/on-prem connectivity.
• Support cyber hardening efforts with RTX cyber team.
• Identify and incrementally improve deployment patterns.

Skills

Python

AWS

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Distributed systems

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's or higher in STEM

Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in related field

Tools

Terraform

GitLab/GitHub Actions

Kafka/Redpanda

Dagster

Iceberg/Trino

Kubernetes

Spark/Elasticsearch

Prometheus/Grafana/Thanos

Job description

Collins Aerospace seeks a Senior Platform Engineer for the Aviation Intelligence team to lead critical data and ML infrastructure initiatives. You will own AWS-based data platforms, design containerized services, and drive reliability across production pipelines.

Collaborate with Data Science, ML Engineering, and Data Engineering to productionize models and data workflows, while strengthening security and cloud/on-prem connectivity.