Raytheon

Sr Principal Software Engineer

Posted on: 6 Feb 2021

Herndon, VA

Job Description

The candidate must have detailed experience with AWS and all of its resources (or least its main ones EC2, S3, and RDS), as well as very familiar with CloudFormation to create and maintain AWS resources. The candidate must also have experience with programming in an Object Oriented Programming language, preferably in Ruby or Python. This candidate should also have experience with Java as well to help assist the development teams as needed since their applications are written in Java. The candidate should have experience with using the AWS Ruby SDK, AWS python SDK (botocore), and AWS Java SDK. This experience will be vital in helping the development teams utilize AWS correctly. The person must be a friendly person that is willing to help in all cases as well as be familiar with architectural best practices. They must also have experience with Jenkins and building Jenkins Pipelines using Groovy. This is needed for the customers' continuous integration and deployment efforts. The person must also have some familiarity with puppet to help manage software installations. Above all else, the person must be a good team player with an eagerness to learn as well as teach when required. This is not a sys admin type position. If you have sys admin skills, then great, but you will work primarily as a developer. Must have a TS/SCI Clearance with favorable polygraph. This position is located in the Herndon area.

Required Skills:
5 or more years of AWS experience. This includes building AWS resources using CloudFormation and interacting with them as well using AWS SDKs such as Ruby, Python, and Java.
Object Oriented Programming background and a willingness to both learn and teach.
Experience with Jenkins and have understand continuous integration and continuous deployment best practices
Team player and work well with others regardless of skill levels. This characteristic is key because there are a lot of teams that will need DevOps support and along with that will be a wide range of skill levels.
Willingness to learn

Desired Skills:
Experience in Ruby, Python, and Java at the Object Oriented Programming level.
Experience with Ruby and Python for scripting.
Experience with Puppet for software installation.
Experience with Java Spring framework to help development teams troubleshoot application issues.
Experience with SPLUNK and ELK (ElasticSearch, Logstash, and Kibana) for log file monitoring.
Experience with Jenkins and running as a Jenkins Agent.
Experience with writing Jenkins pipelines using Groovy.
Experience with Teaching and spreading knowledge across multiple teams.
Experience with writing Rspecs, Ruby unit test framework.
Experience with Java build processes using gradle, maven, and ant.

Education/Experience: Bachelor's STEM degree plus 10 years job related experience.
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Raytheon

Waltham, MA

Raytheon Company develops integrated products, services, and solutions for the defense and other government markets worldwide. It operates through five segments: Integrated Defense Systems (IDS); Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS); Missile Systems (MS); Space and Airborne Systems (SAS); and Forcepoint. The IDS segment offers integrated air and missile defense; land-and sea-based radar solutions; command, control, communications, computers, cyber, and intelligence solutions; naval combat and ship electronic and sensing systems; and undersea sensing and effects solutions.

The IIS segment provides technical and professional services, such as navigation, DoD space and weather solutions, cybersecurity, analytics, training, logistics, mission support, software-based systems, automation and sustainment solutions, and air traffic management systems, as well as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance solutions. The MS segment develops and supports weapon systems comprising missiles, smart munitions, close-in weapon systems, projectiles, kinetic kill vehicles, directed energy effectors, and combat sensor solutions.

The SAS segment provides civil and military electro-optical/infrared sensors; airborne radars for surveillance and fire control applications; lasers; precision guidance systems; signals intelligence systems; processors; electronic warfare systems; tactical and strategic communications; and space-qualified systems. The Forcepoint segment offers cyber security products that include risk adaptive data loss prevention; user and entity behavior analytics and cloud access security broker capabilities; insider threat solutions; firewall technology; cloud and on premise Web and email security; and cross domain transfer products.

Raytheon Company has a strategic agreement with AirMap to collaborate on future projects to safely integrate drones into the national airspace system. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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