Senior Platform Engineer (Onsite)

RTX•Richardson, TX

13d•$82,000 - $164,000•Onsite

About The Position

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is a leader in technologically advanced and intelligent solutions for the global aerospace and defense industry. Collins Aerospace has the capabilities, comprehensive portfolio, and expertise to solve customers’ toughest challenges and to meet the demands of a rapidly evolving global market. Collins Aerospace is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Platform Engineer to support the development and implementation of common platform service products. This exciting opportunity will involve working with a team to leverage your expertise in cloud container orchestration platforms and service mesh technologies.

Requirements

Hands-on experience with IaC tools and frameworks Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible, and procedure automation using scripting technologies like Python, Linux shells, Windows PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform.
Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform) and their services (e.g., compute, storage, networking), VPC, subnets, VPN, firewalls, and load balancers.
Version control tools (e.g., Git), container technologies (e.g., Docker), orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift), performance monitoring, logging, and alerting (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack), implementing solutions following the principles of RBAC, least-privilege, authentication and authorization, PKI and certificate management, secure networking and containerization, container image scanning.
Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and minimum 5 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years of experience.
Active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of Cloud Native at the Tactical Edge
Experience with small form-factor computer infrastructures
Experience using RTX Modern Software Factory development environment.
Exposure to public cloud (AWS, Azure, etc.) infrastructure environments.
Experience with HashiCorp products including Consul, Vault, Nomad, and Terraform.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with a team to develop products for the project using a variety of DevOps and Infrastructure as Code (IAC) tools.
Manage and maintain assigned documents in accordance with established procedures.
Develop modernized software infrastructure products utilizing DevOps tools such as Ansible, Chef, and the Atlassian Tool suite.
Build scripts to automate processes using Python, Bash, and Ruby.
Support cloud-based products such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Gov Cloud as needed.
Complete assigned tasks to meet program schedule milestones.

Benefits

Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
Three weeks of vacation for newly hired employees.
Generous 401(k) plan that includes employer matching funds and separate employer retirement contribution, including a Lifetime Income Strategy option.
Tuition reimbursement program.
Student Loan Repayment Program.
Life insurance and disability coverage.
Optional coverages you can buy pet insurance, home and auto insurance, additional life and accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal, ID theft protection.
Birth, adoption, parental leave benefits.
Ovia Health, fertility, and family planning.
Adoption Assistance.
Autism Benefit.
Employee Assistance Plan, including up to 10 free counseling sessions.
Healthy You Incentives, wellness rewards program.
Doctor on Demand, virtual doctor visits.
Bright Horizons, child and elder care services.
Teladoc Medical Experts, second opinion program.
And more!