Sr. Principal Storage & Data Protection System Administrators

Date Posted:

2025-08-27

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA312: Woburn MA 235 Presidential 235 Presidential Way Spencer Building 26, Woburn, MA, 01801 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: 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. 

Sr. Principal Storage & Data Protection System Administrators collaborate with a motivated 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-of-end solutions to solve complex DT infrastructure problems.

As a Senior Principal level System Administrator, this role will require a seasoned professional contributor who can handle difficult and complex issues within the Mission areas of the Woburn, MA facilities related to Storage and Data Protection systems in Classified areas.

Note on Location:

This position may require travel to other US Domestic locations both local to New England and across the US, as dictated by customer driven work requirements. Relocation support to Woburn, MA is available if the applicant is eligible per company policy.

What You Will Do:

• Collaborate with partners to define computing requirements based on the standard architectural solutions with a strong background in NetApp, Storage networking, Backup Software and tape library systems. Work with storage architects, program leads, and end-users design end-to-end solutions based on the program’s requirements consisting of hardware and operating system technologies.
• Integrate and partner with programs, network engineering and high-performance computing teams to solve complex infrastructure problems.
• Assure a high level of reliability and performance through systems monitoring and infrastructure management. A deep understanding of data storage performance requirements.
• Respond to online service requests from users.
• Ensure server and application compliance with security and performance requirements (DFARS, RMF, NIST Cybersecurity Framework).
• Experience with NAS and or SAN data storage products with an emphasis on:
• NetApp FAS systems including: ONTAP installation, storage configuration, network configuration, data migrations, command line proficiency, software upgrades, command line and GUI troubleshooting, log analysis, high availability, inter-cluster connectivity, disk-to-disk backups, snap technology, health monitoring.
• Communicates and works with associated organizations including the Program Architectural team, mission area Digital Technology Program Leads (DTPLs), end-users, Network Engineering, High Performance Computing (HPC), hardware & software vendors.
• Work with architectural and end-user teams to gather storage requirements for capacity, performance, space & power availability.
• Create updates and status reports for management.  
• Attend regularly scheduled meetings to report on project status.
• FC based tape library systems: Hardware & software installation, cabling and fiber channel connections, target configuration,
• Champion the Storage & Data Protection standard and establish yourself as the backup software subject matter expert.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize client servers and their data to be backed up.
• Background in RAID based storage, Backup software applications and tape library systems.
• Monitor and track client and data backups. Troubleshoot, resolve, and restart failed backups ensuring that they have been completed successfully.
• Cycle and track tape inventories.
• Install and upgrade the system’s hardware and software.
• Develop