Sr. Principal Systems Administrator

Date Posted:

2025-05-19

Country:

United States of America

Location:

AZ842: RMS AP Bldg 842 1151 East Hermans Road Building 842, Tucson, AZ, 85756 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

U.S. Citizen, U.S. Person, or Immigration Status Requirements:

Active and transferable 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​

Security Clearance:

DoD Clearance: Top Secret

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:

• Sr. Principal System Administrator, in infrastructure Workplace Services, collaborates 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. 

• Supervise 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.

• Work with Cybersecurity professionals to maintain security requirements and provide documentation and training on advanced IT processes and procedures and other tasks as assigned

• Participate in Change Request reviews, to include participating in Change Management boards at multiple program levels.

• Participate in and lead technical meetings with team members and other program personnel and represent the organization in functional area matters.

• Use troubleshooting techniques to resolve technical problems of moderate to high scope and complexity to include the integration of hardware and operating systems (OS).

• Experience with data RAID, data backup uses and technologies. Install and configure software applications requested by end users.

• 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 is required to other US Domestic locations as business needs dictate. Up to 10% per year.

• Full time 100% Onsite position

Qualifications You Must Have: 

• Typically requires a University degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and a minimum of 5 years experience.

• Active and transferable U.S. government issued Top Secret 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 or 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 administration, backup, and recovery enterprise suites.

• Must have experience in mentoring others or lead experience.

Qualifications We Prefer: 

• Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 8140 / 8570 Certification requirements (CompTIA Security+ CE or equivalent certification and an Operating System Certification

• Experience with handling and working with classified information.

• Experience in the following areas: patch management, High Performance Computing, OS Upgrades, computer security, system monitoring and logging

• Experience with data storage, NAS, and SAN technologies and solutions

• Experience using VMWare vCenter, vSphere, and ESX and/or other virtual computing methods.

• Experience with Microsoft WSUS, MECM, and/or Exchange

• Experience with requi