Senior Principal DevOps Engineer – CI/CD & Infra (Onsite)

RTX (Raytheon); Oak Grove (VA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer for DevOps/Infrastructure in Sterling, VA. The role emphasizes building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines and secure, scalable infrastructure to support mission-critical simulations and training solutions.

You will lead cross-functional teams, enhance deployment pipelines, and ensure reliable lab-based development and on-site operations in a fast-paced defense environment. U.S.

Qualifications

• Experience deploying, configuring, and supporting CI/CD Pipelines.
• Experience with GitLab, Jira, Confluence, Coverity, Nexus, Artifactory, and Splunk.
• Experience with automation frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, etc.
• Experience with Python, Bash, and PowerShell scripting.
• Experience with VMware, Proxmox, etc.
• Experience with CI for real-time testing and diagnostics within a virtualized environment.
• Experience with Docker/Podman containers, or Kubernetes orchestration.
• Experience in Linux and Windows environments.
• Experience with IDEs such as Visual Studio/VS Code.
• Experience with IaaS/PaaS (OpenShift/VMware/OpenStack).
• Experience with Agile Development Methodologies (Scrum/SAFe).
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, VLANs and configuring network devices.

Responsibilities

• Support and develop automation solutions to enable code build and deployment.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams for seamless integration and operation of software systems.
• Own the CI/CD pipeline, optimize integration and delivery of simulation environments.
• Troubleshoot build chain or CI/CD pipeline tools.
• Identify manual processes and suggest automation strategies and improvements.
• Consider overall CI/CD infrastructure when making changes.
• Design and maintain scalable, secure infrastructure to support mission-critical apps.
• Apply DevOps principles, cloud infra, automation, and reliability.

Skills

CI/CD Pipelines

DevOps

Linux/Windows

Networking (TCP/IP)

Agile Methodologies

Cloud/Virtual Infrastructure

Education

STEM degree

Advanced degree (related field)

Tools

GitLab

Jira

Confluence

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Puppet

VMware

OpenShift

Job description

Collins Aerospace, an RTX company, is seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer for DevOps/Infrastructure in Sterling, VA. The role emphasizes building and maintaining automated CI/CD pipelines and secure, scalable infrastructure to support mission-critical simulations and training solutions.

You will lead cross-functional teams, enhance deployment pipelines, and ensure reliable lab-based development and on-site operations in a fast-paced defense environment. U.S.