Principal Linux System Administrator

RTX•Mckinney, TX

41d•Onsite

About The Position

At Raytheon, the foundation of everything we do is rooted in our values and a higher calling – to help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression. We bring the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. Our team solves tough, meaningful problems that create a safer, more secure world. What is YOUR Mission? Empowering a global business. Providing affordable solutions. Delivering competitive discriminators by unleashing deep expertise. These are just some of the many ways the Digital Technology team at Raytheon creates success for our customers. Joining our team will allow you to collaborate with RTX organizations to enable business growth, speed, and agility through business innovation, technical proficiency, and operational excellence. Our Digital Technology (DT) organization ensures that Raytheon teammates across the globe are able to communicate, collaborate and innovate for customer success. We create leading-edge technology solutions to prevent security threats, protect the integrity of our systems and support RTX’s infrastructure around the world. Job Summary: Raytheon has an exciting IT position available that supports the Raytheon mission of making the world a safer place. We are currently seeking a Principal Systems Administrator, based in McKinney, TX will be working onsite in a highly collaborative, multi-platform and multi–disciplined environment. The Systems Administrator is required to have an active secret security clearance as they will be responsible for deploying and maintaining classified IT infrastructures. The candidate’s day-to-day activities include but are not limited to: RedHat Linux server management; storage management; file server management; access management; data backup; software and license configuration; and workstation support. Each day in the life of a Systems Administrator can bring something new – building a new IT infrastructure for a group of engineers, strategizing disaster recovery, updating virus definitions and security patches, teaming with our brilliant engineers on how to improve their processes, and more.

Requirements

Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and 5 years of experience, or master’s degree and 5 years of prior relevant experience.
Must have an active and in-scope US DoD secret clearance.
US citizenship is required as only US citizens are eligible for security clearance
Must have Linux experience
Experience in one of the following: Active Directory, VMware, system hardening, disaster recovery

Nice To Haves

Experience with NISPOM, JAFAN, JSIG, DFARS and/or DoD/RMF
Familiarity with High Performance Computing (HPC) Environments
Experience with Enterprise Active Directory (AD) & LDAP
Experience with security posturing using tools like SCAP, Nessus, Splunk, Symantec and other AV solutions, and system hardening.
Experience supporting engineers in software, simulations, and hardware development.
Able to real-time troubleshoot and develop solutions with documentation to a variety of technical problems.

Responsibilities

Provide System Administration in a heterogeneous Windows & RedHat Enterprise Linux environment.
Advanced understanding and knowledge of Windows infrastructure services and Linux distributions to include DNS, File sharing protocols, DHCP, AD integration via LDAP, file system structures and permissions.
Working as a team member in a fast-paced technological environment.
Use troubleshooting techniques to resolve technical problems of a moderate to high scope and complexity to include the integration of hardware and operating systems (OS).
Data backup uses and technologies.
Install and configure software applications requested by end users.
Work with Cybersecurity professionals to maintain security requirements.
Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 8140 / 8570 Certification requirements (CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent certification) or be able to be certified within 6 months of hire date.