Principal Linux System Administrator

Principal System Administrator

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 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.

What You Will Do:

• Support 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.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• 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

Qualifications We Prefer:

• 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

Our values drive our actions, behaviors, and performance with a vision for a safer, more connected world. At RTX we value: Safety, Trust, Respect, Accountability, Collaboration, and Innovation.