Senior Software and Infrastructure Engineer (Onsite)

Date Posted:

2025-04-01

Country:

United States of America

Location:

PA602: 302 Science Park Road, Bldg 5C 302 Science Park Road Building 5C, State College, PA, 16803-2214 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

**This position is eligible for a Sign-On Bonus**

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world.

Raytheon is seeking a highly skilled Senior Software engineer that would also perform Infrastructure duties with expertise in DevOps tools to join our Satellite Ground Systems team. This role involves designing, implementing, and maintaining the software infrastructure required for the operation and management of satellite ground systems, with a focus on automation, deployment, and monitoring.

This engineer would lead program infrastructure needs while also supporting software development enhancements and maintenance of an existing system.

Location: This is an onsite position in State College, PA

What you will do

• This role involves close collaboration with systems engineers, hardware designers, and other software engineers to deliver reliable and high-performance software solutions. Other responsibilities to anticipate may include:
• Point-of-contact for site personnel, site boards, etc.  to ensure continued integrity of program-specific hardware infrastructure (may include travel).
• Interface with Infrastructure Service Provider (ISP) to ensure continued integrity and needs for customer-provided hardware infrastructure.
• Lead infrastructure efforts in the maintenance of the system’s Authorization To Operate (ATO).
• Interface with Information Assurance (IA) to ensure all IA requirements are met on time and/or to develop appropriate mitigation and action plans.
• Maintain the integrity of operational, test, and development environments to include appropriate hardening of operating systems, supporting utilities, and tools.
• Participate in the continuous improvement of the software infrastructure by identifying and implementing enhancements and optimizations.
• Develop and maintain documentation for the software infrastructure, including design documents, user manuals, and system administration guides.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to guide cross-functional teams while fostering a collaborative and supportive environment.
• Must be able to motivate and align team members toward common goals and project milestones.
• Ability to clearly communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including written and verbal communication.
• Presentation skills to effectively convey project status, risks, and solutions to senior leadership and customers.
• Ability to articulate requirements, design details, testing procedures, and other technical content in a professional manner.
• Lead customer and vendor discussions and planning regarding migration of the current system to be cloud-agnostic.  This requires specific understanding of the current system’s architecture, an assessment of the cloud readiness of each system component, and development of cost and/or other benefit analysis to be presented to the Customer.  Improvements in architecture must be forward-looking to enable potential applicability of the system to support future associated customer missions.
• This role involves close collaboration with systems engineers and other software engineers to deliver reliable and high-performance software solutions.

Qualifications You Must Have

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.
• Active and transferable TS/SCI U.S. government issued security clearance prior to start date with the adjudication date less than three years ago from your starting date for this position. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Software development experience in Java and at least one more of the following languages: C, C++, JavaScript, Python
• Scripting development experience (bash, etc.)
• CompTIA Security+ Certification or ability to obtain within 3 months

Qualifications We Prefer

• Good understanding of networking concepts
• Understanding of computing and processor architectures
• Experience with Elastic Search
• Experience with Puppet and Git
• Experience with VMWare
• Experience with Customer and site coordination
• Domain knowledge
• FPGA experience
• AWS and/or Azure
• Docker
• Kubernetes

What We Offer

Whether you’re just starting out on your career journey or are an experienced professional, we offer a total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement, and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs. Some of the benefits we offer include parental (including paternal) leave, flexible work schedules, achievement awards, educational assistance, and child/adult backup care.

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This requisition is eligible for an employee referral award.  ALL eligibility requirements must be met to receive the referral award.

Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.

Location Links: State College, PA: https://careers.rtx.com/global/en/raytheon-state-college,-pa-location

This position requires a security clearance. DCSA Consolidated Adjudication Services (DCSA CAS), an agency of the Department of Defense, handles and adjudicates the security clearance process. More information about Security Clearances can be found on the US Department of State government website here: https://www.state.gov/m/ds/clearances/c10978.htm

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The salary range for this role is 82,000 USD - 164,000 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 Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

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