Cloud Solution Engineer / Architect (Remote)

RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, is seeking an experienced Cloud Solutions Engineer to focus on Public Cloud infrastructure solutions and implementations. The role involves building innovative cloud-based hosting solutions, collaborating with stakeholders to identify cloud solution benefits, and supporting the Enterprise SAP program.

Responsibilities:

• Work as a member of cross-functional teams to design scalable, highly available, secure infrastructure solutions that leverage cloud services
• Contribute to detailed SAP technical designs for integration and implementation of cloud systems and services, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical requirements
• Partner with contracted platform partners and Basis team to design, develop and document solutions that comply with strategic enterprise architecture and guidelines
• Collaborate with stakeholders and Enterprise Architects to gather requirements, define project scope, and deliver on strategic initiatives and program goals
• Participate in and provide value to design and code reviews
• Provide feedback to and work with the automation team to develop automation for new services
• Plan for system and application migration(s) to the cloud, adhering to the client’s technical and business requirements
• Collaborate with the Operations and architecture teams to ensure readiness for an apps onboarding
• Communicate effectively through strong written and oral communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
• Integrate with non-cloud technologies and third-party vendor products/services (SAAS), including RISE
• Assess emerging technologies and stay abreast of industry trends related to Cloud and SAP
• Ability to multi-task and work independently, as well as work collaboratively with teams, some of which may be geographically distributed
• Responsible for the completion of specific goals, objectives, and tasks related to this position as assigned by RTX management
• Collaborate with stakeholders to develop SAP solution roadmaps and strategic plans
• Ensure adherence to SAP best practices and industry standards
• Complete the establishment of the onboarding process ensure that the app teams can engage and navigate the onboarding process
• Become an expert for the RTX public cloud implementation and the onboarded services that are offered
• Become familiar with the programs infrastructure automation efforts to ensure the proper information is gathered during engagements
• Ensure the service request forms allow for proper intake of required information to work towards an automated solution

Requirements:

• Typically requires a University Degree and minimum 8 years prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 5 years of experience or in absence of a degree, 12 years of relevant experience
• Experience with common current OS platforms (i.e. Windows, RHEL) including authentication RBAC controls, patching, hardening, group policy and OS clustering concepts
• Experience with integrating with SSO providers, in particular PING and Entra SSO
• Experience with web/app middleware including IIS/Apache and Tomcat in both IAAS and Azure PAAS solutions in both commercial and GovCloud implementations and associated IAAS and PAAS database technologies / data interchange formats (i.e. SQLServer, MYSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, XML, JSON)
• Experience with common cloud services (i.e. AKS, ANAF/ANF, load balancer) and following DevOps & Infrastructure as Code tools (i.e. Terraform, Ansible, Git, Jenkins)
• Integrating applications with SAP environments
• Backup and Recovery, including traditional streaming, virtualization, cloud based solutions and Hana System Replication
• Security and Compliance standards (such as CIS Benchmarks, NIST 800-53, NIST 800-171, FedRAMP, ISO/IEC 27001, SOX, PCI DSS)