Principal Linux System Administrator

RTX•Concord, CA

17h•Onsite

About The Position

At RTX, the world largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Raytheon brings 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. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedom and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense. 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. Raytheon Digital Technology is an organization that delivers for all of those who defend us by distributing capabilities, solutions, and processes to ensure alignment around program priorities supporting program execution. We support critical programs with unclassified, classified, and proprietary information system capabilities and create end-to-end solutions to solve complex digital infrastructure problems. To achieve the mission of our customers, we strive to empower people with authority and responsibility and provide access to tools and resources that enable each employee to continuously improve their technical and leadership competencies while achieving professional and personal goals. As Principal System Administrator, you will be supporting a Raytheon Special Access Program based in Tewksbury, MA. Build, maintain, and secure Information Technology systems and directly supporting customer mission-critical capabilities. Partner and work with program developers and system engineers to research issues, determine root causes and implement solutions to system problems. Collaborate and work with Cybersecurity professionals to maintain security requirements. Systems are operational 24x7 and occasionally require work effort beyond standard work hours. Must be able to support occasional after-hour maintenance and on-call support and must be able to lift to 35 pounds in support of hardware installations.

Requirements

Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience or a master’s degree and minimum of 3 years of prior relevant experience
Must have an active DoD 8570 IAT Level 2 certification (or higher) on start date.
Experience using VMWare vCenter, vSphere, and ESX and/or other virtual computing methods
Must have Red Hat Linux experience
Active and transferable Top Secret U.S. government issued clearance is required prior to start date.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance

Nice To Haves

Experience with NISPOM, JAFAN, JSIG, DFARS and/or DoD/RMF
Experience with data storage, NAS, and SAN technologies and solutions.
Experience with Active Directory, VMware, administration, backup and recovery
Demonstrated ability to work independently and troubleshoot problems with efficiency

Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and secure Information Technology systems and directly supporting customer mission-critical capabilities.
Partner and work with program developers and system engineers to research issues, determine root causes and implement solutions to system problems.
Collaborate and work with Cybersecurity professionals to maintain security requirements.
Support occasional after-hour maintenance and on-call support.
Lift to 35 pounds in support of hardware installations.