Senior Platform Engineer - Modern IaC & CI/CD (Plano)

Prattwhitney; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 86,800 - 165,200; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental plans

401(k) plan with match

Flexible work schedules

Paid time off and holidays

Job summary

RTX is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for the Space and Air Center team in Plano, TX, on site. The role requires U.S. citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance prior to start.

You will harness Terraform and Ansible to modernize infrastructure, build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate across security, development, and systems teams to deliver scalable platform solutions.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a STEM degree and a minimum of five years of relevant experience.
• Experience in infrastructure automation and configuration management using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems, virtualization technologies, and software deployment.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies (Scrum, SAFe).
• Current CompTIA Security+ certification or ability to obtain within 90 days.
• Active Top Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Leverage company and industry best practices to assist with deployment, implementation, modernization, and support of IaC solutions.
• Write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to transition tightly coupled systems to a modern platform.
• Design, architect, develop and support build/test pipelines and optimize integration for performance and scalability across physical or virtualized computing environments.
• Support software tool customization and automation, including deployment of templates, dashboards and scripts using Ansible Playbooks.
• Collaborate with development, security, and systems engineering teams to design and implement mission solutions.
• Integrate security and compliance into the platform with services such as encryption and access management.
• Provide operational support for the platform, including SIL spaces.

Skills

Terraform

Ansible

Linux

Windows

Agile methodologies

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Artifactory

GitLab

Job description

RTX is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for the Space and Air Center team in Plano, TX, on site. The role requires U.S. citizenship and an active Top Secret clearance prior to start.

You will harness Terraform and Ansible to modernize infrastructure, build and optimize CI/CD pipelines, and collaborate across security, development, and systems teams to deliver scalable platform solutions.