Sr System Administrator

RTX•Pascagoula, MS

1d•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 You Will Do: You will be supporting a Raytheon program in a classified environment as a System Administrator. Responsibilities include the monitoring and support of systems that are operational 24x7 and which occasionally require work effort beyond standard work hours. This position is an 8x5 with after-hours call-in responsibility. You will collaborate with a diverse team to support exciting, critical programs with classified information system capabilities. Success in this role means you will be responsible for monitoring and maintaining system health and security posture, directly supporting customer mission-critical capabilities. You will work closely with program developers and system engineers to research issues, determine root causes, and implement solutions to system problems. Additionally, the position serves as a help desk team member in a customer-facing environment, so the ability to communicate effectively and respectfully with other teams and with the customer is of utmost importance, as you will be expected to uphold our excellent reputation. This position is 100% onsite in Stennis, MS.

Requirements

Typically requires a University degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 3 years experience.
Active and transferable U.S. government issued TS/SCI with poly security clearance is required prior to start date.
U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance (on start date)
Must have an active DoD 8570 IAT Level 2 certification (or higher) on start date. IAT Level 2 requires one or more of the following Professional Certifications: Security+ CE, CCNA Security, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP, CySA+, CND.
A minimum 5+ years of experience in VMWare or Linux Systems Administration working with customers in technical operations or engineering.
Experience with Veritas tape libraries and/or Hitachi VSPs, storage products from Dell/EMC (e.g., Isilon/PowerScale) and/or Net App, and a strong background & experience troubleshooting and debugging applications.

Nice To Haves

The ability to work under pressure to restore high priority systems back to operations, to work effectively with frequent and direct customer interaction in a real-time operational environment, and experience presenting technical information to customers, clients, and/or internal audiences
A thorough understanding of operating system concepts such as swapping and paging, inter-process communication, and devices and device drivers
Ability to navigate, debug, and modify programs in an advanced programming language
Experience configuring domain information utilities, such as Active Directory, Centrify, LDAP, and DNS
Working knowledge of thin-client technologies

Responsibilities

monitoring and support of systems that are operational 24x7 and which occasionally require work effort beyond standard work hours
monitoring and maintaining system health and security posture
directly supporting customer mission-critical capabilities
work closely with program developers and system engineers to research issues, determine root causes, and implement solutions to system problems
serves as a help desk team member in a customer-facing environment