Cloud COE Orchestration and Automation Lead

Company: RTX
Location: Amston
Posted on: February 25, 2021

Job Description:

Date Posted:2021-02-04-08:00Country:United States of AmericaLocation:UT3: Newington/Meriden 25 Holly Drive, Newington, CT, 06111 USARaytheon TechnologiesRaytheon Technologies Corporation is an aerospace and defense company that provides advanced systems and services for commercial, military and government customers worldwide. It comprises four industry-leading businesses - Collins Aerospace Systems, Pratt & Whitney, Raytheon Intelligence & Space and Raytheon Missiles & Defense. Its 195,000 employees enable the company to operate at the edge of known science as they imagine and deliver solutions that push the boundaries in quantum physics, electric propulsion, directed energy, hypersonics, avionics and cybersecurity. The company, formed in 2020 through the combination of Raytheon Company and the United Technologies Corporation aerospace businesses, is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.Job Responsibilities-Raytheon Technologies Global Infrastructure Services is seeking an experienced and motivated technologist focused on enterprise application automation and hosting within Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure infrastructure. As part of the Cloud Center of Excellence they will work within an Agile product team to lead the automation and orchestration strategy and development of both the cloud landing zones and self-service automation to be consumed by project teams. This role requires both a passion for automation and modern DevSecOps practices, and an unwavering respect for IT policy and global trade regulatory compliance.-Key responsibilities include:

• Applies technical expertise to design, develop and deploy innovative solutions in the cloud via automation and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Own the strategy, management, and standards for cloud orchestration and automation tools.
• Oversee and audit development practices within the Cloud COE to ensure alignment with established practices.
• Evaluate vendor products, industry best-practices, modern patterns, and emerging technologies to make recommendations on new tools to advance our automation tool suite.
• Implement desired state configuration management to ensure continuous compliance of deployed assets.
• Automate and integrate request, change, configuration, and release management processes with the enterprise ServiceNow instance and documentation repositories.
• Troubleshoot and diagnose technical issues and drive continuous improvement and the quality within the environment.
• Assess, document, and remediate tools and service against RTX security and compliance policies, NIST-800-53 and 800-171, and CMMC control requirements.
• Establish a library of examples/blueprints of Terraform modules and/or Ansible Playbooks to standardized lifecycle management and accelerate deployment of cloud assets.Accomplishments (in the first year):-
  • Publish the orchestration and automation roadmap & strategy for the Cloud COE in alignment with enterprise architecture and BU organizations.
  • Ensure production readiness, security compliance, and disaster readiness of the tool suite.
  • Document standards, architecture, and processes for identified personas.
  • Define, publish, and meet SLA metrics (i.e. provisioning times, first run yield, availability, DR)
  • Enable self-service and bring-your-own-pipeline provisioning for project teams in both Microsoft Azure and AWS while maintaining established guardrails.
  • Complete IT Security and ITC assessments and remediation.Education:
    • Candidates for this role should possess a Bachelors degree +10yrs experience, or an Advanced degree +7yrs experience.-Experience/Qualifications:
      • Deep technical understanding of Cloud and infrastructure services, including Microsoft Azure and on-premise networking, servers and storage.
      • Minimum of 5 years automating complex infrastructure projects in large multinational organizations.
      • Proficiency with Agile, DevSecOps tools, and software development principles.
      • Expertise with cloud orchestration and automation tools (Terraform Enterprise, Ansible Tower, GitHub, etc)
      • Automation First evangelist.
      • Experience managing global production infrastructure in large organizations utilizing ITIL best practices.
      • Ability to partner across organizations and operate in high performance matrixed teams.
      • Strong organizational, interpersonal, analytical, communication and technical skills are essential. -Ability to build and maintain customer relationships; strong team player, able to meet deadlines and adjust to changing priorities.
      • Ability to multi-task and work independently, as well as work collaboratively with teams, some of which may be geographically distributed.
      • Initiative and ability to quickly acquire knowledge.
      • Ability to manage ambiguous or competing requirements, collaborating with project teams to align on solutions.
      • Ability to balance production enterprise IT maturity with cloud agility.
      • Experience operating in US Government regulated environments with strict compliance requirements.
      • Ability to author professional user facing documentation targeted at various personas.-Location:Farmington,CT or US Remote Location-Required Status: --US Citizenship Required-Raytheon Technologies is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.Privacy Policy and Terms:Click on this to read the Policy and TermsRaytheon is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status.

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