Digital Thread Cloud Admin/Platform Engineer (REMOTE)

Date Posted:
2022-09-07-07:00
Country:
United States of America
Location:
RTX99: RTN Remote, Texas
The following position is to join our Corporate or Research Center Team:

Raytheon Technologies (RTX) has an opening for a Digital Thread Cloud Admin/Platform Engineer (Sr. Manager, Business Systems and Transformation). Individual Contributor Role. Remote Opportunity.

Reporting to the Product Lifecycle Digital Thread Director, the Sr. Cloud Systems Admin/Platform Engineer will be responsible to support infrastructure implementation and service integration activities for the Product Lifecycle Digital Thread Accelerator Lab being designed/built to support the Model-Based Digital Thread Process Capability Center (MBDT PCC) and related Digital Thread initiatives.

Job Responsibilities:

The Sr. Cloud Systems Admin/Platform Engineer will be responsible leading the implementation and support of multiple environments across cloud and on-premises data center locations to support Digital Thread initiatives. Additional responsibilities include the day-to-day support of multiple application systems and associated automated capabilities through continuous integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) methods. The individual will also drive standard processes and governance across the multiple platforms and work environments while partnering with a diverse set of colleagues and stakeholders.

• Mobilize Digital Technologies resources to rapidly deploy infrastructure, applications and services (AWS, Azure) and deliver technology demonstrator platforms in support of the Model-Based Digital Thread Process Capability Center (MBDT PCC) and related Digital Thread Unit initiatives.
• Collaborate with teams across the business units and RTX Corporate to define the platform technologies required to support Digital Thread demonstrators.
• Work with program leadership to establish a demonstrator platform roadmap in the defined areas and drive program backlog refinement and prep for Program Increment (PI) planning
• Act in the role of Product Owner and drive the iteration execution with the responsibilities such as: manage the team backlog, perform iteration planning, just-in-time story elaboration, accepting stories, understand enabler work, participate in team demo and retrospective
• Lead an agile team responsible for continuous delivery of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software applications, open source software (OSS) and custom code into AWS/Azure environments to enable technology evaluations and demonstrations.
• Coordinate with technology providers and RTX functions (Cyberscurity, Global Trade, Legal) to ensure application system deployments are compliant with all RTX Digital Policies and Procedures.
• Oversee the integration of applications systems with user authentication and access management solutions (e.g. Azure AD, Ping Identity) and logging & monitoring solutions (e.g. Splunk, Datadog, ELK)
• Manage virtualized Linux (Ubuntu and Amazon Linux) and Windows (2013 and above) systems
• Ensure patching and upgrades to infrastructure and applications to fix potential security vulnerabilities and introduce new functionalities.
• Enable 50% cycle-time improvement to introduce new digital thread tools/methods by de-risking emerging technologies in the demonstrator platform.
• Drive industrialization and business deployment of tools coming out of the Model-Based Digital Thread Process Capability Center (MBDT PCC)

Required Skill:

• Typically a minimum of 10+ years' experience in design, implementation and administration of IT infrastructure for hardware and systems portfolios and a bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of related work experience and schooling in lieu of degree. Advanced degree and minimum of 8+ years related experience.
• Experience designing and operating highly scalable, secure, high performing systems and platforms
• Prior experience in application management and release methodologies
• Prior experience in application controls and compliance
• Broad-based understanding of cloud platform services, cloud-native architectures, and cloud infrastructure, especially Amazon Web Services and related technologies (EBS, CDK, Lambda, S3, EC2, RDS, VPC, ELB)
• Working knowledge of networking concepts and experience with relevant technologies such as Load Balancers/DNS/SSL/Firewalls/NAT/NTP
• Experience working with various RDBMS such as Amazon RDS, MySQL and Postgres as well as NoSQL such as DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra
• Experience with Cloud design patterns and distributed computing concepts
• Experience with scripting (i.e. bash, Java Script, Node JS, Python, etc.)
• Experience working with systems configuration management, orchestration, and infrastructure as code with tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform
• Experience working with REST API based services
• Experience with Operating Systems (Windows and Linux variants) and networking security concepts
• Experience using container platform and orchestration systems ECS, AKS, Kubernetes/Docker, OpenShift
• Experience of source code management e.g. Git
• Excellent communicator with the ability to work effectively across multiple business, IT and engineering teams
• Ability to adjust quickly to changing priorities and make quick decisions with limited information
• Knowledge of Foundational Platforms associated with Product Lifecycle strongly preferred (e.g. Product Lifecycle Managers, Simulation Lifecycle Managers, Requirements Managers, Manufacturing Execution Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning, etc.)
• US Citizen

Desired Skills:

• Architecture certifications (e.g. Raytheon Certified Architect - RCAP, TOGAF)
• Experience with SKOS, RDF, OWL, SHACL, SPARQL and related W3C and IETF recommendations
• Experience with ontology tools such as TopBraid Composer, Protege, PoolParty, SBEVision, Mobi, JSON-LD Playground, GRUFF, WIDOCO, WebVOWL, EMMOntoPy
• Experience with graphstores such as Stardog, Anzo, Neo4J, Virtuoso
• ITIL Certification
• Experience & Certification in agile or scaled agile frameworks
• VMware or Linux certifications
• AWS / Azure certifications
• Practical knowledge of Agile project management and software development methodologies such as Scrum and SAFe

Education:

Typically requires a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering and Management (STEM) or related discipline or equivalent combination or related work experience and schooling in lieu of degree

Raytheon Technologies Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises four industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

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