Sr. Principal Systems Administrator Lead

Date Posted:

2025-03-26

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.
• Developing and monitoring policies, standards, processes, and goals for direct reports
• 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
• Participating and leading technical meetings with team members and other program personnel, and representing the organization in functional area matters
• 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 se