Senior Linux System Administrator

RTX•Marlborough, MA

32d•$82,000 - $164,000•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. This is your opportunity to join the Receiver Exciter and Processing Architecture (REPA) Department as a specialized Linux System Administrator. The team’s primary goal is to design, architect, and implement signal processing algorithms on a variety of high-performance processing platforms – including CPUs, FPGAs and GPUs, on COTS and semi-custom hardware platforms, for next generation radar systems deployed on land and sea. This position is intended to split time between Linux system administration of these platforms and supporting testing of specialized hardware.

Requirements

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum 5 years’ of prior work experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years’ of prior work experience.
Experience administrating Linux operating systems.
Experience with datacenter / HPC computer hardware.
Experience with scripting (e.g. shell, bash, python).

Nice To Haves

CompTIA Linux+ certification.
Experience with automation tools / frameworks (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, Chef, GitLab, GitLab Runner).
Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, Telegraf, and Prometheus.
Experience with developer tools (e.g. Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Jenkins, Jira).
Experience with C++.

Responsibilities

Work in team of HW and SW engineers to support hardware build, integration, and test of custom processing hardware.
Provide IT systems administration in a RedHat Enterprise Linux environment for real-time systems.
Ethernet and InfiniBand network configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting.
Write and execute python and bash scripts to support verification testing and to automate procedures.
Develop integration and test plans, procedures, and conduct execution of functional, performance, and environmental testing at the subsystem level. For example, log hardware metrics and present results on power, cpu and memory usage, cpu temperature, and network throughput.
Update FPGA firmware using Quartus.
Assist in architecting hardware systems to meet performance needs.