Senior Platform Software Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2024-08-27

Country:

United States of America

Location:

PA602: 302 Science Park Road, Bldg 5C 302 Science Park Road Building 5C, State College, PA, 16803-2214 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

**This position is eligible for a Sign-On Bonus**

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.

Our Satellite Ground Systems Team is looking to hire a Senior Platform Software Engineer, to be part of a team that pushes the boundaries of what's possible. This team plays a pivotal role in ensuring communication, surveillance, and defense capabilities through cutting-edge satellite systems.

What you will do:

The Platform Software Engineer will work with cloud and API gateway technologies for our Satellite Ground Systems. This role involves close collaboration with systems engineers, hardware designers, and other software engineers to deliver reliable and high-performance software solutions. Other responsibilities to anticipate may include:

• Design and implementation of AWS cloud based applications
• Working with and improving the CI/CD workflow/pipeline
• Ensure software performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Contribute to the completion of program and project milestones under the specific guidance of their immediate supervisor.
• Follow established Software processes and procedures, development, documentation and maintenance/management of operations concepts, requirements (system, element, segment level), external and internal interfaces, and other software engineering work products/artifacts.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements in Java and satellite technology to drive innovation.
• Due to the security clearance requirement, this is an onsite position.
• Locations: State College - PA, OR Sterling - VA OR Richardson - TX office

What You Will Learn:

• Workings of Satellite Ground Systems
• New tools that will keep you state-of-the-art.

Qualifications you must have:

• Typically requires Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM).
• Five (5) years of experience in object-oriented software design and development
• Experience designing and implementing AWS Cloud based applications encompassing technologies (e.g. VPC, IAM, Elastic LoadBalancing, Auto Scaling, Route 53, KMS, Secrets Manager, ECR, ElastiCache, SQS, SNS, RDS, OpenSearch)
• Experience with API Gateway (AWS or Broadcom)
• Experience with DevOps and other technologies (e.g. Kubernetes/EKS, Terraform, Cloud Formation, Python, Hiera data, TF Vars, Puppet, Helm, Nexus, Vault)
• General experience working with source control and CI/CD pipelines (e.g Git, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Jira, Confluence, Docker, Java, JMeter, Cucumber, Mockito, proxy configurations)
• Experience with EFK (ElasticSearch/Fluent/Kibana)
• General AWS experience with EC2, S3, DynamoDB
• General platform development experience
• Willing to pursue Security+ certification
• *Active and transferable TS/SCI U.S. government issued security clearance prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Qualifications we prefer:

• Security+ certification
• Experience using the Atlassian tool suite.
• Master’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM).

Locations:

Raytheon State College, PA Location (rtx.com)

Raytheon DMV Location (rtx.com)

Raytheon North Texas Location (rtx.com)

What We Offer:

Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement, and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include