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Honeywell Senior Advanced Software Engineer - SRE with Database Administration in Phoenix, Arizona
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 you’ll work out of one of our Phoenix, AZ locations 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 traces across services (e.g., Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, Dynatrace/Azure Monitor, ELK).
Build actionable dashboards and alerts with noise reduction and runbooks for on-call.
Incident Management
Own on-call rotations, triage, and coordination; drive post-incident reviews and blameless RCA with clear corrective actions.
Automate rollback/roll-forward, health checks, and verification steps.
Performance & Capacity
Conduct load and resilience testing; manage capacity planning and 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 Kubernetes clusters, container runtimes, and service meshes.
Manage infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) - (Terraform/CloudFormation/Bicep), secrets management, and policy-as-code.
Security & Compliance
Implement DevSecOps practices: 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.
DB Activities
Administer, maintain, and optimize relational and/or NoSQL databases
Collaborate with security teams to enforce database access controls
Create comprehensive documentation and self-service guides.
YOU MUST HAVE
Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in a technical discipline such as science, technology, engineering, mathematics.
Experience: 4–8+ 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: Docker and 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/Go and Bash for 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 SQL skills and experience with at least one major database technology (PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, MongoDB, etc.)
Deep knowledge of database internals, replication, and indexing
Database CI/CD and migration automation (Entity Framework, Flyway, Liquibase)
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, Node.js, Go)
Knowledge of frontend frameworks (React, Angular, Vue.js)
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 world’s 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 (https://www.honeywell.com/us/en)
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 21,000 employees globally. To learn more, please visit click here (https://aerospace.honeywell.com/) .
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 (https://www.honeywell.com/us/en/company/inclusion-and-diversity)
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 (https://benefits.honeywell.com/)
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.
Honeywell helps organizations solve the world's most complex challenges in automation, the future of aviation and energy transition. As a trusted partner, we provide actionable solutions and innovation through our Aerospace Technologies, Building Automation, Energy and Sustainability Solutions, and Industrial Automation business segments – powered by our Honeywell Forge software – that help make the world smarter, safer and more sustainable.
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.