Platform Engineer SRE

Date Posted:

2025-06-11

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA131: Tewksbury, MA Bldg 1 Assabet 50 Apple Hill Drive Assabet - Building 1, Tewksbury, MA, 01876 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required.​ U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Secret

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

The Platform Engineer SRE role will report into the Program and Classified Services organization to design, maintain and implement Raytheon business wide orchestration and container management platforms based on Kubernetes to support program software, solutions, and products. The primary responsibilities include being a SME for Kubernetes and supporting the DevSecOps Ecosystem across the US on unclassified and closed area systems. Additional responsibilities include partnering within the team and across functions, engineering, and program teams and personnel to develop and prioritize new features and capabilities for standard container management products and services.

What you will do:

• Configuration and integration of Kubernetes in both on-premises and cloud infrastructure.

• Implementing infrastructure as code with CI/CD and pipelines in mind to generate and integrate with supported cloud infrastructures.

• Integrating with cloud specific services as per the requirements with partners and designing redundancies and documentation to support healthy and recoverable operations.

• Conduct incident response and root cause analysis to prevent recurring issues

• Implement failover mechanisms and disaster recovery strategies

• Perform capacity planning and scalability testing

• Implement security best practices to ensure compliance to standards

• Debug and troubleshoot complex production issues related to software and infrastructure

• Experience in Kubernetes operations, supporting tools, and developing automation and new capabilities

• Implement monitoring tools and dashboards with best-practice alerts and response processes

• Write and maintain automation scripts, tools, and internal services to improve reliability

• Maintain documentation on runbooks, system architecture and best practices

• Ensure systems meet defined Service Level objectives and Service Level Agreements

• Design and implement high-availability architectures to minimize downtime

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a University degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and a minimum of 5 years experience.

• The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government issued security clearance is required. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

• Experience implementing automation through CI/CD pipelines with GitLab or Jenkins, and developing custom solutions using Python, Golang, or Bash

• Experience with Linux/Unix system administration

• Experience with networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP)

• Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, etc) and logging systems (e.g., ELK stack, Splunk, etc)

• Experience installing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting Kubernetes clusters in on-premises or cloud infrastructure

• Experience working with Rancher RKE2, OpenShift Container Platform, VMWare Tanzu, or other leading Kubernetes platforms

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Experience designing and operating secure, high-performance systems, platforms, and Kubernetes clusters across bare metal, VMware, AWS GovCloud, and Azure for Government.

• Experience deploying cloud-native platforms and applications in both classified and unclassified environments, including air-gapped and regulated networks.

• Expertise with Kubernetes components (service mesh, service discovery, package management, observability, runtimes, and security) and GitOps tools like ArgoCD, Helm, and Kustomize.

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