Principal Platform Software Engineer (Onsite)
RTX Corporation4 days ago
Independence, MO, USA or Plano, TX, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$118k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain platform architecture in collaboration with the Infrastructure Architect.
- Implement modernization strategies for program work environments and mission-critical systems.
- Serve as the platform engineering technical lead and subject matter expert for design, development, deployment, integration, and maintenance of platform services.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code to transition tightly coupled systems to modern platform infrastructure.
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for platform engineering development and delivery.
- Collaborate with software development, digital technology, cybersecurity, customer, and program leadership teams.
- Establish platform engineering standards and best practices to improve DevSecOps maturity, Infrastructure-as-Code adoption, and automation coverage.
- Mentor and provide technical oversight to junior platform engineering team members.
- Communicate technical concepts to external customers, program leadership, and development teams.
Requirements
- A degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant engineering experience.
- Expertise architecting, designing, documenting, implementing, deploying, and integrating software and infrastructure platform services on Linux and Windows operating systems and virtualization technologies using Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
- Experience with Agile development methodologies such as Scrum or SAFe.
- An active and transferable Top Secret U.S. government-issued security clearance is required before the start date.
- U.S. citizenship is required because only U.S. citizens are eligible for the required security clearance.
- Preferred: active Top Secret clearance with Special Program Access.
- Preferred: current CompTIA Security+ certification or ability to obtain it within 90 days.
- Preferred: experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CI/CD pipeline tools including Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Artifactory, and GitLab.
- Preferred: background installing, configuring, and integrating COTS/FOSS products.
- Preferred: multidisciplinary infrastructure experience with server, storage, and network hardware.
- Preferred: experience with Python, Java, Ruby, Bash, C++, C#, or Go.
- Preferred: experience troubleshooting performance, reliability, and availability issues across Linux/Windows platforms and infrastructure services.
- Preferred: experience with containerization technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Podman, Helm, or Rancher.
Benefits
- Onsite work in Plano, Texas; applicants must be local or willing to relocate.
- Relocation assistance may be offered based on eligibility.
- Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) matching, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance, the Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.
- Eligible employees may receive annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation, which is not guaranteed.
- The application window is expected to close approximately 40 days after posting, subject to business needs.
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About RTX Corporation
RTX Corporation builds aerospace and defense systems through its Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon businesses, serving commercial aviation, the U.S. government, and allied militaries. Its products range from aircraft engines and avionics to radars, missiles, and command-and-control software, sold via long-term OEM programs and defense contracts. Formed in 2020 by the Raytheon–United Technologies merger, RTX is headquartered in Arlington, Virginia and trades on the NYSE as RTX.