Platform Engineering Lead — Infra, IaC & CI/CD (Plano)

RTX; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 118,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation offered

Comprehensive benefits

Annual incentive program

Job summary

RTX, a premier aerospace and defense company, seeks a Principal Platform Software Engineer for its Plano, TX campus. You will design and modernize platform architectures, crafting secure and scalable infrastructure services on Linux and Windows, allied with automation and DevSecOps practices.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with software teams, cybersecurity, and DT to deliver reliable platform solutions.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a STEM degree and a minimum of 8 years of relevant engineering experience.
• Expertise architecting and integrating software and infrastructure platform services on Linux/Windows OS and virtualization.
• Experience with IaC tooling (Terraform/Ansible) and infrastructure automation.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain platform architecture with Infrastructure Architect.
• Lead modernization strategies for the Program Work Environment and critical systems.
• Serve as Platform Engineering SME for design, development, deployment and integration of platform services on Linux/Windows.

Skills

Linux/Windows OS

IaC tooling

CI/CD pipelines

Agile methodologies

Programming languages

Containerization

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Jira

Confluence

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

RTX, a premier aerospace and defense company, seeks a Principal Platform Software Engineer for its Plano, TX campus. You will design and modernize platform architectures, crafting secure and scalable infrastructure services on Linux and Windows, allied with automation and DevSecOps practices.

You will mentor junior engineers, drive CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate with software teams, cybersecurity, and DT to deliver reliable platform solutions.