Senior. Principal Platform IAC Engineer

About the role

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds unite to solve complex problems and defend freedoms. This position is based in Aurora, CO, and involves occasional travel to customer sites for upgrade and implementation activities.

Responsibilities

• Leverage company and industry best practices to assist with deployment, implementation, modernization, and support of IAC solutions
• Lead a small team of engineers in developing software customization and automation, including deployment of templates, dashboards, and scripts to support program needs using Ansible Playbooks
• Lead the integration of the selected platform Container development and orchestration (E.g. Kubernetes/Docker)
• Lead the design/architecture/development and support of build/test pipeline and integration, optimizing for performance and scalability across on-premise or virtualized/Cloud based computing environments
• Assist engineers with specialized tool usage and issues, leveraging standards and best practices towards the solution

Requirements

• Typically requires a BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or Physics and a minimum of 10 years of related work experience
• Experience with Integration, Cloud, Kubernetes, Containerization, Infrastructure/Platform as a Service, Linux Development, Microservices
• Experience with Linux System Administration (E.g. RHEL 6.0+)
• Experience with Agile Development Methodologies (E.g. scrum, SAFe)
• A current TS/SCI Security Clearance is required on day 1. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Qualifications

• Experience with Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)
• Experience with application deployments to Kubernetes
• Experience with Atlassian Tool Suite, Cucumber, Eclipse, GIT
• Experience with Implementing Scaled Agile Frameworks
• Experience with Ansible automation frameworks
• Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CICD Pipelines tools (E.g. Jira / Jira Service Management, Confluence, Bit Bucket, Jenkins, Artifactory)
• Experience with programming languages (E.g. Python, Java, Ruby, Bash, C++, C#, Go)
• General working knowledge of networks, storage, and virtualization
• Experience with COTS/FOSS product installation, configuration, and integration

Benefits

The salary range for this role is $132,400 - $251,600. RTX offers a comprehensive benefits package including 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. Specific benefits are dependent on the specific business unit and whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.