Principal Cloud Systems Engineer/Architect (AWS) (REMOTE)

Date Posted:

2024-09-16

Country:

United States of America

Location:

RTX99: RTN Remote, Texas

Position Role Type:

Remote

RTX Corporation is an Aerospace and Defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises three industry-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon. Its 185,000 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.   

To realize our full potential, RTX is committed to creating a company where all employees are respected, valued and supported in the pursuit of their goals. We know companies that embrace diversity in all its forms not only deliver stronger business results, but also become a force for good, fueling stronger business performance and greater opportunity for employees, partners, investors and communities to succeed. 

The following position is to join our RTX Corporate, Enterprise Services, Research Center or BBN team:

RTX has an opening for a Principal Cloud Systems Engineer/Architect (AWS) (Manager, Business Systems and Transformation).  Remote Opportunity.

This position is suited for someone who favors automated workflows over repetitive manual tasks and trusts mature automated systems for accurate deployment.

Please apply if you are a: highly skilled Principal Cloud Systems Engineer for Enhanced Ontology Hub Team to design, deploy, maintain and support cloud hosted, cutting-edge knowledge graph platform to manage and integrate complex data systems using semantic technologies and should have extensive experience working with COTS and internally developed applications.

Responsible for developing agile, DevOps-oriented, cloud-centric and requirements driven architectures and environments following best practices; these environments should be autonomously orchestrated to ensure high availability, consistency, compliance and operational rigor. 

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Deploy core infrastructure resources required to enable the Ontology Hub, i.e. compute resources, storage resources, networking resources.
• Co-design and build an effective architecture and environment in collaboration with the members of the PLDT and MBDT PCC teams (Tools & Data Integration, Solution Architecture).
• Enable delivery of virtual infrastructure deployment automation and Infrastructure as Code assets (e.g. terraform / cloud formation templates) and related technologies to enable deployments into multiple environments.
• Support the Digital Thread (DT) Architect and Delivery Lead to engage technology providers and architect cloud-based application system designs (COTS/FOSS) compliant with applicable standards (NIST/DFARS).
• Design, implement and manage Single Sign-On solutions to streamline user authentication.
• Setup, manage and maintain encryption at rest for databases, file systems and storage.
• Implement encryption for data in transit by securing web traffic with TLS/SSSL.
• Design and implement comprehensive backup strategies for servers and applications in cloud environment.
• Perform data restores to recover lost or corrupted data ensuring data integrity.
• Implement and maintain monitoring system for infrastructure, applications and network components ensuring all critical systems generate alerts when thresholds are breached.
• Design, implement and monitor log collection systems to identify system performance bottlenecks, detect security threats and troubleshoot application issues.
• Monitor for security threats and vulnerabilities using SIEM tools and take necessary action to remediate.
• Collaborate with cross-functional team to troubleshoot and resolve complex application issues.
• Drive the internal approvals (Legal, ITC, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure) for the infrastructure, applications and services to be deployed and support closure of the remediation actions.
• Deploy commercial software applications, Open-Source Software, related IT components and code developed by the PLDT teams into AWS environment in support of the Ontology Hub.

• Drive the use of “best practice” serverless technologies, methods, and tools for engineers within the PLDT teams.
• Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of DevSecOps tools and methodologies.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation for infrastructure, configurations and sy