Principal Storage & Data Protection System Administrator

Date Posted:

Country:

United States of America

Location:

MA803: Marlborough MA Building 3 1001 Boston Post Road Building 3 Marlborough MA 01752 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:

Secret - Current

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 todays mission and stay ahead of tomorrows threat. Our team solves tough meaningful problems that create a safer more secure world.

Principal Storage & Data Protection System Administratorscollaborate 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 Principal Storage & Data Protection System Administrators this role will require a seasoned professional contributor who can handle difficult and complex issues within the Mission areas of the Marlborough MA or Tewksbury MA facilities related to Storage and Data Protection systems in Classified areas.

What You Will Do:

• System Administrator for Storage and Data Protection across a geographically distributed mission-critical information system operating 24/7/365 managing petabyte-scale data using NAS and SAN platforms whose services and sites are interconnected and must remain highly available at all times.
• Work with a storage ecosystem including NetApp Veritas 45Drives Synology and other SAN/NAS technologies championing architecture cost planning STIG hardening vendor sustainment and designing service-based STaaS (Storage as a Service) models for future program needs.
• Drive lifecycle across hardware refresh software updates licensing capacity planning budgeting service contracts monitoring disaster-recovery readiness and power/space alignment with Facilities ensuring infrastructure investments support both current execution and long-term scalability mandates.
• Work with a cross-functional collaboration and deep problem-solving between Digital Technology Cybersecurity Engineering HPC Tools and Program customers translating storage performance needs into technical plans and delivering cost-effective hardened compliant solutions aligned to frameworks including DFARS RMF DAAPM and NIST.
• Documentation and continuously developing refine consolidate and publish architecture diagrams operational procedures refresh roadmaps and training knowledge bases (e.g. Confluence SharePoint Teams channels) to reduce key person risk eliminate rework and ensure audit-readiness on every site and every subsystem.
• Provide operational support: respond to support requests with timely resolution clear stakeholder updates minimal oversight strong escalation strategies active mentorship to grow systemic breadth of coverage and measured improvements through surveys metrics and in alignment with structured Agile methodologies.
• Must be able to travel domestically up to 25% to support geographically distributed sites and infrastructure including coordination with program engineering architecture cyber teams and facilities partners.
• Must meet DoD 8140 / 8570 IAT Level II certification requirements including Security or an approved equivalent within 6 months of hire supported by a track record of maintaining certification currency through continuing education units.
• 100% on site

Qualifications You Must Have:

• Typically requires a bachelors degree with 5 years of relevant systems administration experience or masters degree and 3 years of experience
• Must have an active and transferable U.S. government issued 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.
• Experience with NAS and/or SAN storage and data backup systems with technical administering and supporting NetApp FAS platforms including ONTAP installation storage and network configuration data migrations upgrades availability domains inter cluster replication log analysis and both CLI and GUI troubleshooting.
• Direct experience with storage and data protection

Qualifications We Prefer:

• Proven leadership and teamwork abilities in high-velocity enterprise environments with strong written-and-oral communication documentation discipline organizational skills and low error execution standards.
• Experience designing deploying securing and automating Microsoft enterprise infrastructure including directory services (ADDS Group Policy Kerberos) imaging and software delivery toolchains (MDT PXE MECM/SCCM WDS WSUS) collaboration platforms (IIS SQL Exchange Skype) and endpoint configuration at scale.
• Experience with hybrid system integration across Linux and Windows in regulated or classified environments using identity and interoperability services such as Samba SSSD NIS and Centrify or comparable cross platform access and authentication toolsets.
• Experience virtualization experience administering vCenter vSphere Horizon ESXi vMotion and infrastructure lifecycle management for clustered systems including configuration drift control capacity planning and continuous availability.
• Experience operating security compliance vulnerability log and audit platforms including ACAS Nessus SCAP STIG Splunk Nagios SolarWinds and infrastructure or asset certification aligned to DFARS RMF JSIG CMMC NISPOM JAFAN and equivalent DoD mandates.
• Demonstrated strength in scripting and automation using PowerShell Perl Python Bash Cisco or similar network scripting infrastructure as code and automation orchestration tools such as Terraform Ansible Chef GitLab Runner Podman Docker and Kubernetes or comparable container ecosystems.
• Experience with enterprise networking concepts including encrypted MAN transport segmentation routing and switching architectures network virtualization firewall policy load balancing license hosting inter-cluster topology design and operating system hardening in compliance driven delivery models.

What We Offer:

Our values drive our actions behaviors and performance with a vision for a safer more connected world. At RTX we value: Trust Respect Accountability Collaboration and Innovation.

Relocation Eligibility

As part of our commitment to maintaining a secure hiring process candidates may be asked to attendselect steps of the interview process in-person at one of our office locations regardless of whether the role is designated as on-site hybrid or remote.

The salary range for this role is 82000 USD - 164000 USD. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels. RTX considers several factors when extending an offer including but not limited to the role function and associated responsibilities a candidates work experience location education/training and key skills.

Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits including but not limited to medical dental vision life insurance short-term disability long-term disability 401(k) match flexible spending accounts flexible work schedules employee assistance program Employee Scholar Program parental leave paid time off and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.

Hired applicants may be eligible for annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and are dependent upon a variety of factors including but not limited to individual performance business unit performance and/or the companys performance.

This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.

RTX anticipates the application window closing approximately 40 days from the date the notice was posted. However factors such as candidate flow and business necessity may require RTX to shorten or extend the application window.

RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability or veteran status or any other applicable state or federal protected class. RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act.

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