Sr. Systems Administrator

RTX • Aurora, CO

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. 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 Raytheon 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 can communicate, collaborate and innovate for customer success. We create leading-edge technology solutions to prevent security threats, secure the integrity of our systems and support IT infrastructures around the world. Sr. Linux System Administrator, internally known as Principal Analyst, based in Richardson, TX or Aurora, CO this Information Workplace Services collaborate with many teams to support exciting, critical programs with classified information system capabilities. Success in this role means you can develop, implement, and maintain secure, cost-efficient environments across various classified programs. Program teams rely on your collaboration and guidance to define computing requirements and create end-to-end solutions to solve complex IT infrastructure problems. What You Will Do: You will be supporting a Raytheon program in a classified environment as a Linux System Administrator. Responsibilities include the monitoring and support of systems that are operational 24x7 and which occasionally require work effort beyond standard work hours. You will perform routine and preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, accurately document issues in logging and discrepancy reporting tools, support system engineering groups as needed for ongoing analysis and integration efforts, design/implement updates to satisfy requirements flowed down from engineering, and upgrade existing COTS products to targeted baselines. This 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. Must be able to work effectively with frequent and direct customer interaction in a real-time operational environment Must be able to work under pressure in restoring high priority systems back to operations 100% on site position Up to 5% travel

Requirements

• Typically requires a bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 2+ years or prior relevant 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 (Before 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
• Must have Linux RedHat and Windows Experience
• Experience with virtual/cloud computing technologies such as Citrix, VMware, and/or Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Experience with storage products from Oracle, Dell/EMC (e.g., Isilon/PowerScale), and/or NetApp

Nice To Haves

• Ability to navigate, debug, and modify programs in an advanced programming language
• Must have Cloudera experience
• Experience presenting technical information to customers, clients, and/or internal audiences
• Working knowledge of client technologies

Responsibilities

• monitoring and support of systems that are operational 24x7 and which occasionally require work effort beyond standard work hours
• perform routine and preventative maintenance
• troubleshooting
• root cause analysis
• accurately document issues in logging and discrepancy reporting tools
• support system engineering groups as needed for ongoing analysis and integration efforts
• design/implement updates to satisfy requirements flowed down from engineering
• upgrade existing COTS products to targeted baselines

Benefits

• total rewards package that goes above and beyond with compensation; healthcare, wellness, retirement and work/life benefits; career development and recognition programs
• parental (including paternal) leave
• flexible work schedules
• achievement awards
• educational assistance
• child/adult backup care
• medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, employee assistance program, Employee Scholar Program, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees