Principal Linux Systems Administrator (onsite)

RTX•Andover, MA

7d•$107,500 - $204,500•Onsite

About The Position

At RTX, the world's 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 freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.

Requirements

Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and a minimum of 5 years’ experience.
An active and transferable US Secret Clearance is required.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
Experience as a Linux System Administrator
Experience with at least 2 but not limited to, the following technologies: VMware, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Podman, OpenShift, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or Ansible), Windows administration.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the following areas: patch management, OS Upgrades, computer security, system monitoring and logging
Experience with Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems.
Experience with NetApp, Veeam
Experience with requirements gathering, planning, and managing deployment, installation, maintenance and upgrade efforts, over multiple geographic sites.
Experience managing IT services and support in a 24/7 real-time operational environment.
Experience with Linux/Windows Scripting.

Responsibilities

Manage and optimize the server infrastructure in a heterogeneous information system.
Provide IT systems administration in a heterogeneous Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.
Lead a team of System Administrators to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of IT systems and applications within their assigned section.
Provide leadership to support a varied range of administrative tasking, to include corrective/preventive maintenance, recurring operations functions, account management, and system optimization.
Guide administrators whose duties may include setting up administrator and service accounts, maintaining system documentation, tuning system performance, installing system wide software and allocating mass storage space.
Work with Cybersecurity professionals to maintain security requirements and provide documentation and training on advanced IT processes and procedures and other tasks as assigned.
Participate in Change Request reviews, to include participating in Change Management boards at multiple program levels.
Coordinate technical and process document reviews and resolve system administration, engineering, and integration issues.
Lead and participate in technical meetings with team members and other program personnel, representing the organization in functional area matters.
Must be able to obtain Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 8140 / 8570 Certification requirements (CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent certification) within 6 months of start date.
Systems are operational 24x7 and occasionally require work effort beyond standard work hours.
Travel is required to other US Domestic locations as business needs dictate. Up to 10% per year.
Other tasks as assigned.