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scott wares

@scottwares

Senior platform engineer at Raytheon who modernized a secure software factory and built a GitOps-managed Kubernetes platform.

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What I'm looking for

I’m seeking a senior platform, reliability, or DevSecOps engineering role.

At Raytheon, I owned monitoring and DevSecOps reporting for the GPS OCX secure, air-gapped software factory. I designed its monitoring solution from the ground up and automated core platform services with PKI and HashiCorp Vault.

At IN2L, I led the migration of regulated healthcare technology from on-premises hardware to AWS and re-architected the application environment. I established infrastructure as code and zero-trust secrets management for a 58-host environment.

Since May 2026, I’ve been building and operating an integrated Kubernetes platform across a 14-host fleet, with GitOps, policy enforcement, observability, and an edge AI inference tier. I’m now seeking a senior platform, reliability, or DevSecOps engineering role.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Principal Engineer, Service Engineering

Raytheon (RTX)

Oct 2022 - Jul 2025 (2 years 9 months)

Senior engineer on the platform team for a secure, air-gapped software factory under RMF, NIST SP 800-53, DISA STIGs, and NIST SP 800-171 / CMMC. Designed and implemented the monitoring solution, automated PaaS services with Vault and PKI, and ran maintenance-window work and platform upgrades.

Monitoring DevSecOps RMF NIST SP 800 53 DISA STIGs NIST SP 800 171 CMMC HashiCorp Vault PKI ELK Red Hat IDM OpenStack Artifactory CloudBees Code Based Configuration Disaster Recovery Patch Automation

Senior Automation Engineer

Raytheon (RTX)

Jul 2019 - Oct 2022 (3 years 3 months)

Modernized air-gapped secure development environments on the GPS OCX program. Migrated Jenkins freestyle projects to Jenkinsfile, shared libraries, and configuration as code, and migrated credentials to a standardized role-based access matrix.

Jenkins Jenkinsfile Shared Libraries Code Based Configuration Chef Credential Management Air Gapped Systems

Senior Automation Engineer / DevOps Architect

IN2L (It's Never 2 Late)

Jun 2017 - May 2019 (1 year 11 months)

Led migration from on-premises to AWS and re-architected a monolithic application into a cloud-based DevOps framework. Introduced HashiCorp Vault for secrets management and implemented zero-trust architecture, and established infrastructure as code with Terraform and Ansible.

AWS Terraform Ansible HashiCorp Vault Zero Trust Architecture Jenkins Artifactory SonarQube Bitbucket Katalon Nagios HIPAA PII

Deployment Engineer

CenturyLink

Mar 2016 - May 2017 (1 year 2 months)

Automated pre- and post-deployment validation of virtual machine and application configurations using Bash, Perl, Git, and Swagger, and authored reusable ElectricCloud deployment procedures.

BASH Perl Git Swagger ElectricCloud Deployment Automation

Systems Engineer III

Governor's Office of Information Technology

Dec 2015 - Feb 2016 (2 months)

Strengthened security and availability by upgrading WebSphere to TLS 1.2, resolving misconfigurations, and implementing monitoring scripts with real-time alerting.

Websphere TLS Monitoring Scripting Security

Puppet & Middleware Automation Engineer

Comcast

Jul 2015 - Dec 2015 (5 months)

Built Puppet modules for provisioning and maintaining WebLogic servers on RHEL/CentOS, streamlining infrastructure as code.

Puppet Web Logic RHEL CentOS Infrastructure as Code

DevOps Engineer

Broadridge Financial Solutions

Apr 2014 - Apr 2015 (1 year)

Automated Sybase database migrations from AIX to Linux, including instances over 6 TB holding financial data. Replaced manual build-and-provision with Puppet-driven automation and integrated Jenkins and Artifactory into the build and release workflow.

Sybase Aix Linux Puppet Jenkins Artifactory RHEL CentOS PII Financial Data

Middleware Administrator / Perl Developer

U.S. Department of the Interior

Jan 2014 - Mar 2014 (2 months)

Packaged a high-performance Nagios system as RPMs for master, worker, and monitored-host roles, with a Perl generator producing all Nagios, Gearman, NagiosGraph, NRPE, and NagVis configuration from one spreadsheet.

Nagios Perl rpm Gearman NagiosGraph NRPE Nagvis Configuration Generation

Information Systems Engineer

Qwest Communications

Jan 1999 - Dec 2004 (5 years 11 months)

Managed 160 servers and 4,000 Solaris and Windows workstations across 14 states plus a DR site. Saved $1.2M annually by leading the transition of hardware support from vendor to internal technicians, plus $240K annually through automation and open-source monitoring.

Solaris Windows server management Disaster Recovery Automation OSS Monitoring Cost Savings