Senior Digital Automation Engineer, ROCKS Team

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🔥 5 hours ago

🌵 Arizona, California, +2 more states – Remote

🌵 Arizona – Remote 🏄 California – Remote 🍂 Massachusetts – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $107.5k - $204.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🤖 QA Automation Engineer

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RTX

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10,000+ employees

Founded 2020

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Manufacturing • Consulting • Logistics

RTX is a globally recognized aerospace and defense company dedicated to transformative technologies and era-defining innovation. It operates through various businesses, including Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney, and Raytheon, with a focus on sustainable, connected flight and smarter defense systems. RTX is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion across the company and aims to solve the world’s most complex problems with cutting-edge technology and talent. Additionally, RTX is involved in significant projects like upgrading the F135 Engine Core and developing missile-defense systems. The company emphasizes corporate responsibility and sustainable practices.

📋 Description

• Design and implement Infrastructure as Code solutions using Ansible across VMware vCenter, bare metal, and cloud environments • Automate VM provisioning, template management, network configuration, storage allocation, PXE boot, hardware configuration, BIOS/firmware management, and OS deployment • Design reusable, modular Ansible roles and collections for consistent deployment patterns • Write custom Ansible modules, plugins, and filters using Python • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for testing, validating, and deploying automation code • Integrate automation with Git, secrets management, monitoring platforms, and enterprise systems through RESTful APIs • Create runbooks, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures • Monitor automation execution, troubleshoot failures, and improve reliability and performance • Participate in an on-call rotation for critical automation infrastructure support • Track and report automation metrics such as deployment frequency, success rates, and time savings • Support the ROCKS Kubernetes-based container management platform for classified and unclassified deployments

🎯 Requirements

• University Degree or equivalent experience and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years' experience • U.S. citizenship required • Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued security clearance • Active and existing DoD Secret security clearance required after day 1 • Experience with Ansible execution environments and containerized automation • Programming and scripting experience • Active Directory and Group Policy automation • Linux system administration; RHEL/CentOS preferred • Windows Server administration, especially Windows Server 2019/2022 • Network and storage configuration experience preferred • VMware vSphere/vCenter administration and automation preferred • Advanced PowerShell scripting capabilities, including 2+ years and Desired State Configuration (DSC), preferred • Python development skills, including 3+ years and REST API development/consumption, preferred • Bare metal provisioning experience, including PXE, Kickstart/Preseed, and hardware management, preferred • Understanding of operating system security principles, hardening techniques, and compliance frameworks preferred • Experience with system internals, performance tuning, and troubleshooting preferred • Experience working with YAML, JSON, and INI configuration files preferred • 4+ years of hands-on Ansible experience preferred • Deep understanding of Ansible architecture, including playbooks, roles, collections, inventories, and vault preferred • Experience developing custom Ansible modules, plugins, callbacks, and filters preferred • Proficiency with Ansible Galaxy and creating/publishing reusable collections preferred • Strong knowledge of Jinja2 templating and YAML best practices preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • 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 • Holidays • Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be available • Remote work; relocation is not included