Raytheon Intelligence and Space (RIS) is looking for a Software Configuration Engineer to support our EPIC program based out of Riverdale, Maryland. Remote/full time telecommuting is available for this position.

Life with Raytheon Intelligence and Space

In this role, you will work with an amazing team of engineers to design and develop the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC), an extramural center that will unite academia, industry and government to help create the most user-friendly and user-accessible comprehensive Earth modeling system. Raytheon Intelligence and Space was chosen by NOAA to lead new center dedicated to advancing U.S. weather forecasting. Click here to learn more Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC)

What You will Get to Do:

As a Software Configuration Engineer, you will play a crucial role in developing the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) for NOAA. You will work in a dynamic Agile development environment to modernize science-driven applications for operations on cloud and on-prem HPC platforms. EPIC provides acceleration community-developed scientific and technological enhancements into the operational applications for Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) and improved Research to Operations (R2O).

Responsibilities and duties will include:

• Coordinating the deployment of new software baselines across the environment, following the controlled process documented in the EPIC Release Management Plan.
• Triggering the final build for validation (to include unit, integration, system, and security testing as applicable) and place the resulting build into an Apache Archiva instance within NOAA.
• Archiving the code as a release baseline into an Apache Archiva instance within NOAA.
• Ensuring the code remains under proper CM given the community development nature of EPIC, to include management of the GitHub and Apache Archiva repositories, along with an Ansible AWX configuration management engine.
• Conducting regular release management meetings to provide a collaborative forum for the Scrum Master and System Engineering IPT to communicate progress, dependencies, and risks associated with the releases.

You will Bring These Qualifications:

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and at least 2 years of prior relevant experience or an advanced Degree in a related field and less than 2 years of experience.
• Recent automated testing experience.
• Recent experience using a version control system for baselining source code.
• Recent experience writing and enforcing configuration management plans, policies, and/or procedures.
• Knowledge and understanding of application hosting, with experience working in a Commercial Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS) or Platform as Service (PAAS) Cloud environment.
• Experience performing change control and configuration audits.

Security Clearance - The ability to obtain and maintain a US security clearance. U.S. citizenship is required as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

It Would Be Great if You Also Had:

• Experience working in Lean Agile frameworks such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Enterprise Scrum (eScrum).
• Experience supporting the Software Development Lifecycle throughout all stages.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Good experience in preparing IT technical documents.
• Experience using automated CM tools for IT Service Management.

What We Can Offer You:

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance understanding its importance to overall wellbeing and productivity.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new team members. Our team has a broad mix of experience levels and Raytheon tenures, and we are developing an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior engineers truly enjoy mentoring more junior engineers and engineers from non-traditional backgrounds through one-on-one mentoring.

We care about your career growth. We try to assign projects and tasks based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on roles that are more complex in the future.

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at Raytheon, we embrace and respect our differences. Diverse backgrounds, experiences, and views benefit our environment and problem solving, ultimately leading to greater success across the business. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion and continually striving for a more collaborative, respectful, and equitable workplace.

Benefits: medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, EAP, education assistance, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays.

Other Information:

• Employee Referral Award Eligibility: Only employees currently within RMD and RI&S have the potential to receive a Referral Award for submitting a referral to RMD and RI&S roles. ALL eligibility requirements must be met to receive the Referral Awarding.
• Relocation assistance is not available