Principal Linux System Administrator

Date Posted:

2025-01-30

Country:

United States of America

Location:

CA573: Vandenburg AFB Building 980 980 Ordinance Road Building 980, Lompoc, CA, 93436 USA

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Principal System Administrator- 100% on site, Vandenburg Space Force Base (VSFB), Lompoc, CA. - must have active secret clearance, we offer relocation!!

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 Technologies creates success for our customers. Joining our team will allow you to collaborate with Raytheon 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 are able to communicate, collaborate and innovate for customer success. We create leading-edge technology solutions to prevent security threats, secure the integrity of our systems and support IT infrastructures around the world.

Principal System Administrators, internally known as Principal Analyst, infrastructure Workplace Services, collaborate with a diverse team to support exciting, critical programs with classified information system capabilities. Success in this role means you are able to 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.

What You Will Do:

• Provide IT systems administration in a heterogeneous Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and VMWare environment. 
• Understanding and knowledge of Windows Server and Linux fundamentals to include DNS, DHCP, AD.
• Working as a team member in a fast-paced technological environment.  Use troubleshooting techniques to resolve technical problems of a moderate to high scope and complexity to include the integration of hardware and operating systems (OS).
• Perform Daily System Checks.
• Work with Cybersecurity professionals to maintain security requirements.
• Execute PMI's on a live system.
• 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.
• Must be able to develop solutions and documentation to a variety of technical problems.
• 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 10% travel.
• Full time 100% Onsite position

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires bachelor’s degree and minimum of 5 years of direct experience or a master’s degree and minimum of 3 years of prior relevant experience.

• Must have an active transferable U.S. government issued secret security clearance prior to start date. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux server administration.
• Experience in the following: Active Directory, VMware.