Senior. Principal Platform IAC Engineer PO; Onsite

Position

Senior Principal Platform IAC Engineer Product Owner – Onsite – Aurora, CO

• Lead a small team of platform engineers and system administrators responsible for designing, building, securing, and operating an evolving Dev Sec Ops  platform and cloud‑based infrastructure.
• Serve as Product Owner, managing the backlog, prioritizing work, defining acceptance criteria, and ensuring alignment with program objectives and delivery milestones.
• Partner with the Scrum Master to plan and execute Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, refinement, reviews, retrospectives, and PI planning.
• Oversee delivery, selloff, and technical acceptance of completed increments, ensuring stakeholder satisfaction and alignment with program commitments.
• Act as the primary liaison between engineering teams, program leadership, and external stakeholders to align technical vision, roadmap, and delivery priorities.
• Develop, maintain, and drive a forward‑leaning technical roadmap emphasizing cloud‑native architectures, automation, modern Dev Sec Ops  practices, and relevant COTS integrations.
• Continuously evaluate and incorporate emerging technologies, cloud services, automation approaches, and industry best practices to enhance platform capability, security, reliability, and scalability.

• BS/BA in STEM (Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, Physics, or related) and a minimum 10 years of related work experience.
• Experience installing, configuring, hardening, and maintaining Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments; hands‑on experience designing, implementing, and integrating cloud infrastructure solutions, preferably with AWS.
• Experience with IaC and configuration‑management tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and/or Chef.
• Experience with CI/CD principles and tool chains (Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Git Lab, Artifactory, Helm).
• Active and current TS/SCI with CI Poly security clearance on day 1; U.S. citizenship required.

• Demonstrated technical leadership and strong communication skills, ability to convey complex concepts to engineering teams, customers, and senior leadership;
  DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification (Security+ CE or equivalent) preferred.
• Experience independently developing technical approaches and solutions with minimal oversight.
• Strong foundation in infrastructure components: servers, networking, storage, virtualization in enterprise or mission environments.
• Advanced troubleshooting skills for Linux platform, performance, reliability, and distributed system availability issues.
• Proficiency with scripting languages such as Python and Bash for automation and workflow development.
• Experience implementing solutions within a Dev Sec Ops  framework, including integrating security across the software lifecycle.
• Strong AWS experience – architecture, deployment, and security for EC2, EKS, S3, IAM, VPC, Cloud Watch, and related services.
• Experience with container technologies and platform engineering (Kubernetes, Docker, Podman).
• Experience integrating and supporting COTS and FOSS solutions in secure or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with supporting application teams through CI/CD pipeline integrations and developer‑facing platform services.

• Competitive salary range: 132,400 USD – 251,600 USD.
• Health, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term & long‑term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, holidays.
• Short‑term & long‑term incentive compensation programs (subject to performance and coverage).

Requires TS/SCI with Polygraph; U.S. citizenship required. DCSA Consolidated Adjudication Services handles and adjudicates the security clearance process.

Aurora, CO (US-CO-AURORA-S75 ~ 16800 E Centretech Pkwy ~ BLDG S75).

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.