Prin. Cloud Engineer (AWS) - Cloud SME

Date Posted:

2024-11-04

Country:

United States of America

Location:

VA543: 22270 Pacific Blvd, Dulles 22270 Pacific Boulevard Building CC5, Sterling, VA, 20166-6924 USA

Position Role Type:

Hybrid

You have been redirected to RTX’s career page as we have recently transitioned from RTX to become a standalone company, which provides us with greater autonomy and opportunities for growth. As a prospective employee of Nightwing, you’ll have the chance to contribute to our continued success and shape the future of our cybersecurity, intelligence, and services offerings.

Nightwing provides technically advanced full-spectrum cyber, data operations, systems integration and intelligence mission support services to meet our customers’ most demanding challenges. Our capabilities include cyber space operations, cyber defense and resiliency, vulnerability research, ubiquitous technical surveillance, data intelligence, lifecycle mission enablement, and software modernization. Nightwing brings disruptive technologies, agility, and competitive offerings to customers in the intelligence community, defense, civil, and commercial markets.

NightWing is supporting a U.S. Government customer on a large mission critical development and sustainment program to design, build, deliver, and operate a network operations environment including introducing new cyber capabilities to address emerging threats. NightWing is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to assess, design, and develop automated cloud-based requirements and architectures and develop derived requirements and systems engineering artifacts into advanced cloud infrastructure, management, and operations.

Responsibilities include:

Providing Systems Engineering project leadership in support of a large, leading edge cybersecurity system.

Coordinating teams in the development, integration, and testing of advanced leading-edge cybersecurity, with the assistance of the Design & Development Lead and Chief Engineer

Interfacing directly with the Customer, stakeholders, and end-users regarding priorities, capability architectures, requirements, use cases, and stories to derive, develop and decompose next-cycle updates and specifications

Representing the voice of the user in development

Collaborating within Agile Release Trains and Agile Teams

Supporting risk assessments and developing risk mitigation countermeasures

Providing Systems Engineering expertise and leadership in support of a large cybersecurity system

Required Skills:

Must be a US Citizen

Must have an active Secret clearance and be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance

Must be able to obtain DHS Suitability

10+ years of directly relevant systems engineering experience such as allocation of hardware and software requirements, development of use cases and stories, detailed design of system components, and direct automation / orchestration experience with larger systems

4+ years direct experience with AWS cloud deployment and management tools

Proven leadership skills and meaningful experience successfully leading large teams

Able to effectively work as a leader, in a group, or as an independent individual contributor

Experience working in an Agile development environment in a leadership role

Possesses or quickly develops a comprehensive understanding of Government Information Security policies, regulations, and guidelines

Expertise in automation of infrastructure - deployment, configuration, and orchestration

Direct experience with scripting in JSON, YAML, HCL, Python, bash/PSH and/or CloudFormation/ Terraform

Desired Skills:

Experience leading teams and projects at either the tech lead or product owner level

Familiarity with Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Git, Ansible, Chef, AWS lambda, terraform or cloud native tools like CloudFormation

Programming experience (Java, Javascript, .Net, Python, or Ruby)

Familiarity with using, updating, and programmatically manipulating Linux and Windows

Experience with NTP, DNS, Networking, LDAP, or Software repositories

Experience with branching and release strategies, CI/CD Pipelines

AWS cloud technology knowledge and implementation experience

Experience with Google Cloud

Experience with Azure Services

Experience designing and implementing event driven microservice architectures

Experience in technical oversight of individuals and projects

Experience working in DevOps and/or DevSecOps environments

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) knowledge and experience

Required Education:

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related technical field. Two years of related work experience may be substituted for each year of degree level education.

Desired Certifications:

Agile software development methodology certification (e.g. SAFe Practitioner or higher)

AWS Cloud Practitioner

AWS Solutions Architect – Associate / Pro

DoD 8570.1 IAT Level I or II (e.g. CISSP)

The salary range for this role is 130,000 USD - 272,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX 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.

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