Platform Reliability Engineer

Platform Reliability Engineer

The platform reliability engineer role will report into the Digital Infrastructure 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 implementing, supporting, and optimizing Kubernetes based container orchestration platforms across unclassified and closed area systems. Additional responsibilities include partnering within the team and across functions, engineering, and program teams and personnel to optimize the use of the platforms and products as well as bring forward new ideas, concepts, and capabilities for future platform enhancements.

This role’s responsibility includes working directly with partners diagnosing and solving complex Kubernetes issues. Implementing and improving observability and monitoring tools to provide error detection, defect elimination, improve MTTD/MTTR, and overall service availability and customer satisfaction. Escalating larger issues to the Platform Engineers for further investigation and following the process to resolution.

Our Raytheon Orchestration and Container Kubernetes Service (ROCKS) team is responsible for providing a secure, standard, ROCKS solid foundation for the Digital Ecosystem at Raytheon. ROCKS is a Platform Engineering team that provides an integrated container management platform built on Kubernetes and a set of managed services.

ROCKS provides a modern cloud native container orchestration platform that can be installed on air-gapped classified information systems or can be leveraged as a non-production service in shared unclassified platforms across our networks.

What You Will Do:

• Work autonomously and partner with Raytheon programs, engineers, and Digital Technology peers to understand their needs and solve complex problems
• Partner with teams managing infrastructure, networking, and application development to forecast capacity, scaling, and demand.
• Advanced knowledge of Kubernetes, how it operates, tools that support it and experience ensuring highly available and reliable clusters and environments
• Experience and knowledge on the Installation, configuration, maintenance, and support of Kubernetes clusters both in the cloud, on-premises, and in regulated environments
• Setup, maintain and automate across various infrastructure with VMWare, AWS GovCloud, Azure for Government, bare metal needs, and restricted networks
• Establish monitoring tools and management dashboards integrated into platforms with best practice notifications and response processes

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a University degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years experience.
• Active and transferable U.S. government issued Secret security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Experience installing, deploying, monitoring, and supporting Kubernetes clusters in on-premises and cloud infrastructure, working with Rancher RKE2, Upstream, OpenShift Container Platform, VMWare VKS/Tanzu or other leading Kubernetes platforms.
• Experience with Kubernetes based development tools such as Terraform, Helm, Python, Go, and Bash.
• Experience working with observability and monitoring software like Grafana, Prometheus, Alert Manager, and Loki.

What We Offer:

Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.