Senior Principal Platform Engineer - Connected Aviation (Remote)

Job summary

The Senior Principal Platform Engineer will lead critical projects within the Aviation Intelligence team, focusing on AI/ML projects, data science, and data management. Key responsibilities include owning AWS infrastructure, designing and maintaining EKS-based services, and collaborating with Data Science and ML Engineering to productionize models and data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 10 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years of experience
• Proficiency with Python
• Strong experience with AWS (EKS, IAM, VPCs, networking)
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience operating production workloads
• Experience managing Kafka (or Redpanda) in production environments
• Proficiency with Terraform for infrastructure as code
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, reliability, and scaling
• Experience supporting production data pipelines or ML systems
• Experience with observability stacks

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Degrees

Relocation