Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world's most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today's mission and stay ahead of tomorrow's threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense. As part of the Software Engineering Space and Air Center team, you will be an integral part of helping Raytheon further our vision to be the global leader in core and next-generation defense and security solutions. By any measure, Raytheon is an exciting and rewarding place to work. We pride ourselves on developing mission-driven, world-class talent. The result is a workforce that takes pride in the company and consistently delivers superior solutions. Raytheon has an opportunity for a Senior Platform Engineer with well-rounded Infrastructure Platform Engineering expertise to join an agile product team. The Ideal candidate will have experience in both traditional infrastructure design, provisioning, and deployment of compute, storage, and networking resources and emerging modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) automation technologies. The Senior Platform Engineer would be involved with development, implementation of traditional compute, network, storage systems and related deployments, as well as support improving the program platform's over-arching design through new emerging technologies. This includes existing operating systems and server hardware designs, as well as supporting the design and development of new modernized system architectures through automation tools. What You Will Do You will leverage company and industry best practices and capabilities to assist with deployment, implementation, modernization, and support of IAC solutions Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) in support of transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure to a modern platform infrastructure You will assist with design, architecture, development, and support of build/test pipelines and optimizing integration for performance and scalability across physical or virtualized based computing environments You will support software tool customization and automation including deployment of templates, dashboards, and scripts to support program needs utilizing Ansible Playbooks Collaborate with DT, GSS Security, software and system engineers to design and implement development and mission solutions Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management Provide operational support for the platform including SIL spaces This job is onsite in Plano, TX; applicants must be in the area or willing to relocate to it. Qualifications You Must Have Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience. Infrastructure automation and configuration management experience using tools such as Terraform and Ansible, including Linux/Windows operating systems and virtualization technologies. Experience with software deployment, integration, and Agile development methodologies such as Scrum and SAFe. Current CompTIA Security + or ability to obtain within 90 days Active and transferable U.S. government issued Top Secret security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance Qualifications We Prefer Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CI/CD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab) Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using infrastructure as code (IaC) Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience and expertise (Server, Storage, Network Hardware) Experience with programming languages (E.g. Python, Java, Ruby, Bash, C++, C#, Go). Experience troubleshooting performance, reliability, and availability issues across Linux/Windows based platforms and infrastructure services Experience with containerization using technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, Helm, Rancher What We Offer Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation. Relocation Offered Based On Eligibility Raytheon