Associate Director, Infrastructure Architecture

RTX • Hartford, CT

5d • Remote

About The Position

RTX is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses: Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia.
RTX ES Infrastructure - You will be shaping the enterprise Infrastructure Tools, Automation, and Data Architecture strategy. This role is responsible for defining the architectural vision, standards, and guardrails that enable scalable, secure, and repeatable infrastructure automation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including network, security, identity, collaboration, and end user infrastructure domains.. You will design enterprise reference architectures and integration patterns that connect infrastructure platforms, automation tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and business systems, enabling a fully automated, codified, and data-driven enterprise ecosystem. The role emphasizes Everything as Code (EaC), platform interoperability, and infrastructure data as first-class architectural concerns, ensuring infrastructure capabilities are repeatable, observable, and governed at scale.
This is a strategic architecture role focused on setting standards, designing frameworks, and guiding delivery teams, rather than direct implementation. Success requires strong architectural judgment, deep automation domain expertise, and the ability to influence senior leaders, enterprise architects, and platform teams to align infrastructure automation strategies with broader business and digital transformation objectives.

Requirements

• Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 12 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 10 years experience
• Minimum 8+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture, automation engineering, or DevOps leadership.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access certain necessary systems.

Nice To Haves

• Proven expertise in infrastructure-as-code (IaC), configuration management, and orchestration across hybrid and multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, OCI).
• Deep knowledge of automation and orchestration tools: Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, PowerShell, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent.
• Demonstrated success designing and implementing enterprise-scale automation frameworks that improve velocity, reliability, and cost efficiency.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, virtualization, containers, and modern infrastructure stacks.
• Experience influencing senior leadership and driving cross-functional alignment on automation strategy.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to mentor and guide architects, engineers, and technical stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience designing enterprise infrastructure for global-scale organizations.
• Exposure to observability, configuration management, and infrastructure data modeling

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain enterprise-level infrastructure and integration architectures to enable “Everything as Code” (EaC) across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
• Design reusable reference architectures, frameworks, and standards for multi-cloud automation and platform integration.
• Define integration patterns connecting infrastructure tools, CI/CD pipelines, and business platforms.
• Contribute to the enterprise infrastructure data strategy, ensuring systems are observable, auditable, and actionable.
• Evaluate emerging multi-cloud IaC tools, automation frameworks, and technologies; recommend adoption strategies.
• Mentor and guide architects, engineers, and stakeholders on best practices for codification, automation, and integration.
• Collaborate with business and technology leaders to ensure strategies align with organizational goals and deliver measurable impact.

Benefits

• Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a robust total rewards package with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs.
• Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance and child/adult backup care.
• Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
• Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees