CI Poly Platform Engineer with Security Clearance

- Company: Raytheon
- Location: Richardson, TX
- Duration: Long term, ongoing contract, we are a sub on the program
- Clearance: TS/SCI CI poly Tasks
• Serve as Senior. Platform Engineer for the team, creating capability and feature designs, and ensuring alignment with program objectives and delivery commitments
• Work with the Scrum Master to execute Agile development, to deliver high-quality, cloud-enabled capabilities on schedule
• Support delivery and selloff of completed work to customers, ensuring technical acceptance and stakeholder satisfaction
• Support and maintain a technical roadmap that keeps the platform aligned with modern DevOps practices, cloud-native architecture, and relevant COTS solutions
• Evaluate emerging technologies, cloud services, and industry trends to continuously improve platform capabilities, security posture, and team effectiveness
Qualifications You Must Have
• Typically requires BS/BA Degree in Science, Technology Engineering Math (STEM) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology or Physics and a minimum 5 years of related work experience
• Effective communication, with the ability to interpret complex technical concepts to engineers, in order to develop deliverable products
• Proven experience in the installation, configuration, and maintenance of RedHat Linux operating systems
• Experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and/or Chef
• Active and Current TS/SCI CI Poly Security Clearance is required day 1. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance
Qualifications We Prefer
• Strong working knowledge in infrastructure of servers, networking, storage, and virtualization technologies in enterprise or mission environments
• Hands-on Experience designing, implementing, and integrating cloud infrastructure solutions, preferably with AWS.
• Experience designing and delivering solutions within a DevOps framework, including security integration throughout the software lifecycle
• Advanced experience troubleshooting performance, reliability, and availability issues across Linux-based platforms and infrastructure services
• Working knowledge of scripting languages such as Python and/or Bash used for automation and operational workflows
• Working knowledge of CI/CD concepts and toolchains (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, GitLab, Artifactory, Helm) from a user and integrator perspective.
• Strong AWS experience, including architecture, deployment, and security of services such as EC2, EKS, S3, CloudWatch, IAM, and VPC, with an emphasis on scalability and cost optimization
• Container and platform engineering experience using Kubernetes and container runtimes such as Docker or Podman
• Working knowledge of integrating CI/CD pipelines and toolchains to support application teams
• Experience integrating and supporting COTS and FOSS products in secure or regulated environments