Senior Principal Linux System Administrator, P4, Aurora, CO, Onsite, Current TS/SCI Clearance required

Date Posted:

2024-06-27

Country:

United States of America

Location:

CO102: 16800 E Centretech Pkwy,Aurora 16800 East Centretech Pkwy Building S75, Aurora, CO, 80011 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Senior Principal Linux System Administrator – P4

Raytheon Digital Technology

Program Digital Services – Air & Space Defense Programs

Aurora, CO – ONSITE Position

Active Top Secret with Sci/Poly Required

 

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.

 

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 customer, 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

You will be supporting a Raytheon program in a classified environment as a Linux System Administrator. Responsibilities include building, maintaining, and securing Information Technology systems and 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. 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. Occasional travel may be required for installation support. This position is an onsite role in Aurora Colorado (relocation eligible)

 

Qualifications You Must Have

·       Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and a minimum 8 years of prior relevant experience, an advanced degree with 6 years prior relevant experience. Experience in lieu of degree will be considered (at least 12 years 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

·       (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

·       Experience administering Red Hat Linux based systems with minimal support, to include patching, creating/maintaining RPM packages, performance tuning, networking, user management (LDAP), and security hardening

·       Installing, administering, and troubleshooting recent versions of VMware (ESXi and vCenter)

 

Qualifications We Prefer

·       Using and developing with automation tools/frameworks such as Terraform, Ansible, and Chef as well as scripting - particularly in Bash and Python

·       Experience administering Windows based systems

·       Demonstrated ability to work independently and troubleshoot problems with efficiency

·       Requires the ability to effectively interact with external personnel on significant technical matters often requiring coordination between organizations and vendors

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