Senior Principal DevOps Architect - Onsite, Secret Clearance

Collins Aerospace; Sterling (VA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 277,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Three weeks of vacation

401(k) plan with employer match

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Job summary

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer - DevOps / Infrastructure for onsite work in Sterling, VA. You will lead infrastructure software architecture, drive automation, and own CI/CD reliability for mission simulation environments, with mandatory eligibility for a Secret clearance.

The role requires deep experience across cloud platforms, modern data systems, and automated pipelines in a classified lab setting, with on-site presence and occasional travel.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or advanced degree in STEM with 7–10+ years of relevant experience.
• Active and transferable Secret security clearance required before start.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and architectural direction for infrastructure software systems.
• Lead automation efforts to improve reliability, repeatability, and velocity across teams.

Skills

CI/CD leadership

DevOps practices

Cloud architecture

Security clearance

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Coverity

Nexus

Artifactory

Splunk

Ansible

Terraform

Puppet

Python

PowerShell

Bash

VMware

Proxmox

OpenShift

OpenStack

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Job description

Collins Aerospace is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer - DevOps / Infrastructure for onsite work in Sterling, VA. You will lead infrastructure software architecture, drive automation, and own CI/CD reliability for mission simulation environments, with mandatory eligibility for a Secret clearance.

The role requires deep experience across cloud platforms, modern data systems, and automated pipelines in a classified lab setting, with on-site presence and occasional travel.