Sr. DevOps Automation Engineer

Are you looking for an engineering career that is challenging and satisfying? Then join our team of engineers solving problems that make the world a safer place and help to secure our great nation! Come support those who provide us with all the freedoms we enjoy. We offer great benefits that include medical, dental, vision, 401K match, flexible work schedule - just to name a few. 

Raytheon Intelligence and Space (RIS) delivers innovative technology to make the world a safer place. Our expertise in cyber, analytics and automation allow us to reach beyond what others think is possible to underpin national security and give our global customers unique solutions to solve the most pressing modern challenges -- from the cyber domain to automated operations, and from intelligent transportation solutions to creating clear insight from large volumes of data. IIS operates at nearly 550 sites in 80 countries, including a large presence in Dulles, VA. As a global business, our leaders must have the ability to understand, embrace and operate in a multicultural world -- in the marketplace and the workplace. We strive to hire people who reflect our communities and embrace diversity and inclusion to advance our culture, develop our employees, and grow our business.

Job Description:
The Raytheon RIS Hardware and Infrastructure Engineering (HW&I) team has a professional opening for a Senior DevOps Engineer.  This role will support the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) activities of software teams who design, develop, and deploy advanced cybersecurity capabilities. The qualified candidate will utilize our Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools and process to provide the capability to rapidly deploy and configure cloud resources and virtual machines in repeatable fashion. The ability to obtain maintain a US Government Top Secret/SCI security clearance is required for this position (US citizenship required).

Responsibilities Include:

• Building, testing, and administering highly available Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform cluster

• Supporting the Ansible Tower enterprise environment including engineering playbooks, training and developing standards and guidelines for engineers in their use of Ansible

• Assisting application teams with on-boarding to the OpenShift platform in areas such as resource requirements, capacity analysis, troubleshooting support

• Working with vendors to troubleshoot the platform and issues related to integrations with other internal systems

• Integrating and automating the program’s security posture

• Monitoring hardware, VM and container metrics for the purposes of maintaining cluster health and identifying thresholds for scaling

• Developing and automating repeatable tasks

• Performance tuning of infrastructure components.

Required Skills:

• experience developing software or scripting with Java, JavaScript, Python or similar

• experience working with Red Hat OpenShift Infrastructure design, deployment and operational support

• Experience with Linux Containers (Docker), Kubernetes, and deployment of containerized applications/microservices architectures

• Demonstrated skill with at least one or more configuration management/scripting technologies such as Ansible, Chef, Puppet

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, Jenkins, Nexus, Antifactory or comparable substitutes

• Experience with a virtualized cloud environment (AWS, VMware vSphere)

• Experience with software security, secure coding, or software assurance tools and techniques

-availability for occasional CONUS travel (<20%) in support of System integration activities.

Desired Skills:

• Technical understanding of cybersecurity attack techniques and associated mitigation techniques

• Experience and/or familiarity with one of more of the following program languages:

Java, Perl, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript

• Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with one of more of the following database technologies: SQL, Oracle, MySQL, JBDC, NOSQL, etc.

• Experience and/or familiarity with DevOps, Continuous Development/Continuous Integration concepts, and automated test tools such as Docker, Jenkins, Rational Team Concert, JIRA, Git, Chef, Ansible, Puppet, Junit, JMeter, RSpec, and/or Cucumber.

-Existing US Government TS/SCI security clearance

Education and Experience Requirements:

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM), or related STEM degree program from an Accredited University/School/College with 5+ years of related work experience.

Employee Referral Award Eligibility:

Only employees currently within RMD and RI&S have the potential to receive a Referral Award for submitting a referral to RMD and RI&S roles.  ALL eligibility requirements must be met to receive the Referral Awarding.

Relocation assistance available provided final candidate meets eligibility requirements.

Raytheon Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.