Senior Platform Engineer (Onsite)

Raytheon Technologies - Aurora, CO

Full-time - Senior

Aurora, CO

Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

About the position

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Raytheon, you will play a crucial role in transforming software engineering by integrating development and operations into a unified platform. This position focuses on empowering development teams with a robust platform that enhances collaboration, streamlines processes, and accelerates release cycles, ultimately driving efficiency and innovation. You will work within a team responsible for managing a hybrid-cloud environment that supports product development and testing for a significant national asset, involving both hands-on engineering and documentation tasks.

Responsibilities

• Support transitioning a system that is tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure.
• Assist with architecture, design, development, integration, and support of build, integration & test, and deployment pipelines, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premises cloud computing environments.
• Leverage company and industry best practices to improve scalability, consistency, infrastructure efficiency, reduce deployment time, and automate configuration management.
• Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, and DevOps teams 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.

Requirements

• Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and 5+ years of related work experience.
• Experience with automation frameworks such as Chef, Puppet, and Ansible.
• Background in COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration.
• Experience designing, implementing, and integrating platform infrastructure services using technologies such as Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Rancher.
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued TS/SCI/CI Poly security clearance is required prior to start date.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (eg Jira, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, Gitlab).
• Exposure to Cloud based web services such as AWS.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices such as OWASP, secrets management, and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience with Networking Concepts and architectures.
• Experience with scanning tools (eg Nessus, Fortify, Anchore).
• Multi-disciplined infrastructure experience with compute, networks, storage, and virtualization.
• Experience developing, testing & delivering applications within a DevSecOps framework.
• Experience with programming/scripting languages (eg Python, Java, Bash, Perl, Ruby, C+).
• Current DoD 8570 certification (CompTIA Security +, CCNA) or ability to obtain within 90 days.

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 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
• Holidays