Principal Linux Systems Administrator (onsite)

About the role

RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, seeks a Server Infrastructure Manager to join our team. This role is critical in managing and optimizing server infrastructure in a heterogeneous environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimize the server infrastructure in a heterogeneous information system.
• Provide IT systems administration in a heterogeneous Microsoft Windows and Red Hat Enterprise Linux environment.
• Lead a team of System Administrators to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of IT systems and applications within their assigned section.
• Guide 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.
• Work with Cybersecurity professionals to maintain security requirements and provide documentation and training on advanced IT processes and procedures and other tasks as assigned.
• Participate in Change Request reviews, to include participating in Change Management boards at multiple program levels.
• Coordinate technical and process document reviews and resolve system administration, engineering, and integration issues.
• Lead and participate in technical meetings with team members and other program personnel, representing the organization in functional area matters.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a university degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience or an Advanced Degree in a related field and a minimum of 5 years’ experience.
• An active and transferable US Secret Clearance is required.
• U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Experience as a Linux System Administrator.
• Experience with at least 2 but not limited to, the following technologies: VMware, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Podman, OpenShift, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform and/or Ansible), Windows administration.
• Qualifications We Prefer:
• Patch management, OS Upgrades, computer security, system monitoring and logging.
• Experience with Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) systems. Experience with NetApp, Veeam.
• Experience with requirements gathering, planning, and managing deployment, installation, maintenance and upgrade efforts, over multiple geographic sites.
• Experience managing IT services and support in a 24/7 real-time operational environment.
• Experience with Linux/Windows Scripting.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance available, provided final candidate meets eligibility requirements.
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Pay

The salary range for this role is 107,500 USD - 204,500 USD.

Schedule

This role is classified as: Onsite: Employees who are working in Onsite roles will work primarily onsite. This includes all production and maintenance employees, as they are essential to the development of our products.