Sr. Principal Systems Administrator Lead

Date Posted: 2025-03-31

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AZ848: RMS AP Bldg 848 1151 East Hermans Road Building 848, Tucson, AZ, 85756 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Sr. Principal Systems Administrator Lead, 100% onsite, Tucson, Arizona, must have active secret clearance, we offer relocation!

About Us:

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 is YOUR Mission?

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 Program Execution team will allow you to collaborate with RMD 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, protect the integrity of our systems and support Raytheon’s IT infrastructures around the world.

What You Will Do:

Sr. Principal System Administrator Lead, in infrastructure Workplace Services, collaborate with a team to support fast-paced, 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.

• Manage and optimize the server infrastructure in a heterogeneous information system.
• Provide IT systems administration in a heterogeneous Microsoft Windows and Redhat Enterprise Linux environment. 
• Lead and manage a team of System Administrators to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of IT systems and applications within their assigned section.
• Providing leadership to support a varied range of administrative tasking, to include corrective/preventive maintenance, recurring operations functions, account management, and system optimization.
• Performing leadership and managerial duties for team members, including but not limited to, Performance and development assessments, Career planning, Resource management, Timecard approval, Personal-Time-Off (PTO) approval and management, Talent interviewing and hiring.
• Supervising 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.
• Working with Cybersecurity professionals to maintain security requirements and provide documentation and training on advanced IT processes and procedures and other tasks as assigned
• Participating in Change Request reviews, to include participating in Change Management boards at multiple program levels.
• Coordinating technical and process document reviews and resolving system administration, engineering, and integration issues
• Working with Cybersecurity professionals to maintain security requirements and provide documentation and training on advanced IT processes and procedures and other tasks as assigned
• 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 required to other US Domestic locations as business needs dictate. Up to at 10% per year.
• Other tasks as assigned.

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically, bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of direct system experience or a master’s degree and 5+ years of directly related experience.

• Must have an active and transferable Secret U.S. government issued security clearance is required prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.Must have Windows and Linux experience.

• Must have experience with some but not limited to, the following technologies: Active Directory, WSUS, VMware, Veeam, AWS, MySQL, Remote Desktop Gateway, and Netwrix, prior systems administration and networking administration experience, Windows or Linux administration, Windows administration, or Mac OS experience, backup, and recovery enterprise suites.
• Must have experience in mentoring others or lead experience.

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including presentation skills.
• Organizational skills to include attention to detail, time management and ability to multitask.
• An active DoD TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance or prior SCI/program eligibility 
• Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 8140 / 8570 Certification requirements (CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent certification and an Operating System Certification 
• An active DoD Top Secret clearance with investigation date completed within the past 6 years.
• Direct working experience with NISPOM, JAFAN, JSIG, and/or DoD/RMF guidelines
• Experience with handling and working with classified information.
• Experience supporting engineers in software, simulations, and hardware development.
• Knowledge in the following areas: patch management, High Performance Computing, OS Upgrades, computer security, system monitoring and logging
• Knowledge of Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems.
• Knowledge of virtual host solutions (e.g., VMware)
• 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.
• Industry certifications including but not limited to: Security +, CISSP, ITIL, ISC2, PMP etc.
• Scripting Experience
• Experience with legacy system i.e. Solaris, Microsoft Server 2008/2012/2016. Windows NT/XP/7, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4/5/6
• Knowledge & Experience with FAS3250 Storage support.
• Experience with Jira and Confluence or other project management tools.
• Experience developing and managing standard operating procedures.
• Knowledge & Experience with Legacy Solaris 8,9, and 10 support, accounts, development and maintenance.
• Knowledge & Experience with IRIX operating system & Silicon Graphics Computer Systems
• We offer relocation!!

What We Offer

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

The salary range for this role is 101,000 USD - 203,000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role, function and associated responsibilities, a candidate’s work experience, location, education/training, and key skills. Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, 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. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, individual performance, business unit performance, and/or the company’s performance. This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply. RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However, factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.

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