Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

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

• 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
• 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
• 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

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.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform and/or Ansible
• Experience with Linux/Windows Operating Systems and Virtualization technologies
• Experience with software deployment and integration
• Experience with Agile Development Methodologies, e.g., 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
• This job is onsite in Plano, TX; applicants must be in the area or willing to relocate to it.

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