Senior Advanced Software Engineer SRE with Virtualization

As a Site Reliability Engineer here at Honeywell Aerospace Technologies you will play a crucial role as a subject matter expert in ensuring the reliability availability and performance of our systems and services. You will work closely with development and operations teams to implement best practices in reliability engineering automation and monitoring driving improvements across our infrastructure.

You will report directly to our SRE Engineering Manager and youll work out of one of our Phoenix AZlocations on a Hybrid work schedule as part of a global 24x7x365 team.

In this role you will impact the efficiency and effectiveness of our operations by enhancing system reliability and performance ultimately contributing to customer satisfaction and business success.

At Honeywell Aerospace Technologies our people leaders play a critical role in developing and supporting our employees to help them perform at their best and drive change across the company. Help build a strong diverse team by recruiting talent identifying and developing successors driving retention and engagement and fostering an inclusive culture.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Reliability Engineering
  • Define and manage service SLOs/SLIs track error budgets and drive reliability roadmaps.
  • Proactively identify reliability bottlenecks lead remediation and preventative actions.
  • Establish CI/CD best practices and standards across the organization
• Observability & Telemetry
  • Implement and scale metrics logs and tracesacross services (e.g. Prometheus/Grafana OpenTelemetry Dynatrace/Azure Monitor ELK).
  • Build actionable dashboards and alertswith noise reduction and runbooks for on-call.
• Incident Management
  • Own on-call rotations triage and coordination; drive post-incident reviewsand blameless RCA with clear corrective actions.
  • Automate rollback/roll-forward health checks and verification steps.
• Performance & Capacity
  • Conduct load and resilience testing; manage capacity planningand cost optimization(autoscaling right-sizing caching).
  • Tune databases queues and network settings for throughput and latency.
• Automation & Tooling
  • Reduce toil with automation and self-service tooling; standardize deployment and recovery procedures.
  • Build reliability guardrails (chaos experiments circuit breakers rate limiting backoff).
• Platform & Infrastructure
  • Operate and harden Kubernetesclusters container runtimes and service meshes.
  • Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) -(Terraform/CloudFormation/Bicep) secrets management and policy-as-code.
• Security & Compliance
  • Implement DevSecOpspractices: vulnerability management dependency scanning Identity and Access Management (IAM) hardening.
• Collaboration
  • Partner with developers QA and product on design reviews release strategies and production readiness.
  • Document standards and provide enablement sessions to elevate reliability practices.
  • Create comprehensive documentation and self-service guides.

YOU MUST HAVE

• Bachelors degree from an accredited institution in a technical discipline such as science technology engineering mathematics.
• Experience:48 years in SRE/Platform/DevOps/Operations roles with ownership of production systems at scale.
• Cloud:Hands-on with AWS/Azure/GCP(preferably two); strong grasp of managed services trade-offs.
• Containers & Orchestration:Dockerand Kubernetes(AKS/EKS/GKE); Helm/Kustomize; service mesh familiarity (Istio).
• Observability:OpenTelemetry; metrics/logs/traces design; alerting strategies; RCA & postmortems.
• Infrastructure as Code:Terraform(preferred) or Cloud-native equivalents; modules remote state and CI integration.
• Programming & Scripting:Proficiency in Python/Goand Bashfor automation tooling and APIs.

WE VALUE

• Advanced degree in Computer Science Engineering or related field.
• Reliability Practices:SLO/error budgets capacity planning chaos/resilience testing progressive delivery.
• Soft Skills:Calm under pressure strong communication pragmatic decision-making and a continuous improvement mindset
• Strong VMWare virtualization skills
• Deep knowledge of virtualization best practices and operation
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (DNS load balancing TCP/IP)
• Expertise in designing and developing reusable CI/CD pipeline templates
• Proficiency with at least two CI/CD platforms (Atlassian Azure DevOps Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI)
• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Infrastructure as Code skills (Terraform ARM templates or CloudFormation)
• Cloud platform expertise (Azure AWS or GCP)
• Experience troubleshooting build and deployment issues across multiple technology stacks
• Strong Git and version control workflow knowledge
• Experience with automated testing frameworks (.NET: xUnit/NUnit Python: pytest)
• Artifact and package management (NuGet PyPI Azure Artifacts Artifactory)
• Scripting skills (PowerShell Bash Python)
• Experience with additional programming languages (Java Go)
• Knowledge of frontend frameworks (React Angular )
• GitOps implementation experience (ArgoCD Flux)
• Service mesh technologies (Istio Linkerd)
• Advanced deployment strategies (blue-green canary feature flags)
• Security scanning tools integration (SonarQube OWASP Snyk)
• Monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK Application Insights)
• Configuration management (Ansible Chef Puppet)
• Multi-cloud or hybrid cloud deployment experience
• Experience building internal developer platforms
• Creating CLI tools or IDE extensions for developer productivity
• Policy-as-code implementation (OPA Sentinel)
• Cloud certifications (Azure AWS or GCP)
• Kubernetes certifications (CKA CKAD)
• Experience with monorepo tools (Nx Turborepo Bazel)
• API gateway and microservices architecture experience

ABOUT HONEYWELL

Honeywell International Inc. (Nasdaq: HON) invents and commercializes technologies that address some of the worlds most critical challenges around energy safety security air travel productivity and global urbanization. We are a leading software-industrial company committed to introducing state-of-the-art technology solutions to improve efficiency productivity sustainability and safety in high-growth businesses in broad-based attractive industrial end markets. Our products and solutions enable a safer more comfortable and more productive world enhancing the quality of life of people around the globe. Learn more about Honeywell:click here

THE BUSINESS UNIT

Honeywell Aerospace Technologies (AT) products and services are found on virtually every commercial defense and space aircraft in the world. We build aircraft engines cockpit and cabin electronics wireless connectivity systems mechanical components and more and connect many of them via our high-speed Wi-Fi offerings. Our solutions create healthier air travel more fuel-efficient and better-maintained aircraft more direct and on-time flight arrivals safer skies and airports and more comfortable flights along with several innovations and services that reflect exciting and emerging new transportation methods such as autonomous and supersonic flight. Revenues in 2023 for Honeywell Aerospace Technology were $14B and there are approximately 21000 employees globally. To learn more please visitclick here.

Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age race creed color national origin ancestry marital status affectional or sexual orientation gender identity or expression disability nationality sex religion or veteran status. Learn more about inclusion and diversity :click here

BENEFITS OF WORKING FOR HONEYWELL

In addition to a competitive salary leading-edge work and developing solutions side-by-side with dedicated experts in their fields Honeywell employees are eligible for a comprehensive benefits package. This package includes employer-subsidized Medical Dental Vision and Life Insurance; Short-Term and Long-Term Disability; 401(k) match Flexible Spending Accounts Health Savings Accounts EAP and Educational Assistance; Parental Leave Paid Time Off (for vacation personal business sick time and parental leave) and 12 Paid Holidays. For more information visit:click here

The application period for the job is estimated to be 40 days from the job posting date; however this may be shortened or extended depending on business needs and the availability of qualified candidates.

Job Posting Date: 3.11.26

Due to compliance with U.S. export control laws and regulations candidate must be a U.S. Person which is defined as a U.S. citizen a U.S. permanent resident or have protected status in the U.S. under asylum or refugee status or have the ability to obtain an export authorization.