Senior Platform Engineer

RTX•McKinney, TX

8d•Onsite

About The Position

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Electro-Optical & Infrared (EO/IR) Solutions Engineering Team in McKinney, TX, which is part of our Advanced Products & Solutions group. What You Will Do : In this role you will design, implement, test, and maintain the infrastructure and tooling that enables the development of Electro-Optical & Infrared Solutions software for Raytheon’s Advanced Products & Solutions group. This is a great opportunity for an individual who is looking to help us accelerate our time to market, improve the velocity and reduce the cognitive load of the development teams, and standardize workflows across a growing organization allowing us to scale efficiently.

Requirements

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience
Familiar with container orchestration: Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, Helm
Experience with computer scripting languages such as Bash, Perl, or Python
Hands-on experience with the Linux operating system
Familiar with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Experience with CICD pipeline implementation using GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or similar tools
Ability to obtain a U.S. government issued Secret security clearance within one year of employment

Nice To Haves

Advanced experience troubleshooting performance, reliability, and availability issues across Linux-based platforms and infrastructure services
Experience configuring and deploying Kubernetes applications with Helm
Hands on experience building container images
VM and container hardening and vulnerability analysis experience
Repository management experience with tools such as Artifactory or Nexus
Familiar with Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi
Software development experience in at least one major programming language such as C++, Java, Go, Rust, or Python
Working knowledge of Monitoring/Observability frameworks such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog
Package management experience with tools such as npm, Conan, Maven, or Cargo
Experience with Static Code Analysis tools such as SonarQube and Coverity
Familiar with relational databases: SQLite, MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
AWS experience, including services such as EC2, IAM, EKS, S3, CloudWatch, and VPC
Hands-on experience with Git for version control and GitLab for repository management.

Responsibilities

Work closely with cyber security, software engineers, systems engineers, and implementation teams to ensure security, performance, and deployment compliance.
Develop modern, robust DevOps strategies, practices, and tools to accelerate software deployment, development, and verification.
Automate the deployment of cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to eliminate manual processes
Standardize, optimize and maintain CICD pipelines to ensure efficient and reliable build, test and analysis automations
Work directly with DevOps, infrastructure software, and cloud services such as Helm, Golang, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Podman, Kubernetes, and AWS GovCloud.
Improve Developer Experience (DevEx) by providing easy to use tools and documentation