Cloud Application Engineer

Job Description:
Basic Job Description:

• Provide services for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and general IT support to enable the Model-Based Digital Thread Process Capability Center (MBDT PCC) and Product Lifecycle Digital Thread (PLDT) initiatives. Participate in planning, definition of best practices, and collaborative meetings in support of these goals.

Job Functions / Responsibilities:

• Define the core infrastructure resources required to enable the PLDT Accelerator Lab (PAL), i.e. compute resources, storage resources, networking resources.
• Co-design and build an effective architecture and environment in collaboration with the members of the MBDT PCC team (Tools & Data Integration, Solution Architecture).
• Support the Digital Thread (DT) Architect and Delivery Lead to engage technology providers and architect cloud-based application system designs (COTS/FOSS) compliant with applicable standards (NIST/DFARS)
• Drive the internal approvals (Legal, ITC, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure) for the infrastructure, applications and services to be deployed and support closure of the remediation actions.
• Deploy commercial software applications, Open Source Software, related IT components and code developed by the MBDT PCC and PLDT teams into AWS environment in support of the PAL.
• Support the Integration of various technologies to enable demonstrations of Digital Thread use cases, including:
  1. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
  2. Data Processing Platforms
  3. Requirements Management & Analysis
  4. Model Integration Hub
  5. Collaborative Ontology Editors
  6. Semantic Graph Application Platforms
  7. Semantic Graph Databases
  8. Simulation Lifecycle Management (SLM)

• Support IT teams at RTX business units in the deployment of infrastructure, applications and services to instantiate a local PAL for proof-of-concept pilots in pseudo-production environments
• Provide technical support to maintain the PAL, including triage, issues resolution and patches / upgrades as needed.
• Enable MBDT PCC / PLDT teams in delivery of virtual infrastructure deployment automation and Infrastructure as Code assets (e.g. terraform / shell scripts) and related technologies to enable deployments into multiple environments.
• Drive the use of best practice serverless technologies, methods, and tools for engineers within the MBDT PCC / PLDT teams.
• Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of DevSecOps tools and methodologies.
• Provide general IT support to the MBDT PCC (Identity Mgmt, Network Access Requests, laptop deployments, etc.)

Qualifications & Skills:

• 10+ years of progressively responsible experience in design, implementation and administration for hardware and systems portfolios
• Experience with infrastructure compute, storage, cyber, and network technologies and resources
• Experience working with systems configuration management, orchestration, and infrastructure as code with tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform
• Experience using container platform and orchestration systems ECS, AKS, Kubernetes/Docker, OpenShift
• Experience designing and operating highly scalable, secure, high performing systems and platforms
• Experience deploying new cloud native platforms and systems in highly hardened/secure environments.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud Technologies, including the use of Infrastructure related AWS Services and related technologies such as EBS,CDK,Lambda,S3,EC2,RDS,VPC,ELB
• Experience with integration and use of AWS services with custom developed applications, commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) and open source software (OSS)
• Advanced skills in Linux administration, configuration, and software installation
• Prior experience in application management and release methodologies
• Prior experience in application controls and compliance
• Experience of source code management e.g. Git
• Excellent scripting skills in bash, Perl, Python and/or Ruby
• Excellent communicator with the ability to work effectively across multiple business, IT and engineering teams
• Ability to adjust quickly to changing priorities and make quick decisions with limited information
• High level of motivation, self-starter, ability to demonstrate effective project management and completion of complex network tasks with little guidance

Behavioral:
Demonstrated soft skills required for the presentation of ideas and concepts to stakeholders such as vendors, end users and senior management.

• Excellent verbal, written, communication, presentation and negotiations skills
• Strong customer service approach
• Ability to collaborate and work well with others
• Ability to engage vendor support on technical and functional issues
• Ability to escalate issues properly and in a timely fashion

• Ability to troubleshoot / solve complex problems
• Ability to multi-task, to support multiple customers, and to work within specific schedule and cost constraints
• Ability to effectively interface with technical and nontechnical staff at all organizational levels
• Ability to work and collaborate in virtual environment where team members are not co-located.
• Self-motivated and able to function with minimal oversight

Experience Level
10+ years leading technology deployments including infrastructure, system administration, networking and information security aspects

Experience 10+ years •

Last updated on Oct 20, 2022