Apply on Employer Site

RTX · 1 month ago

Principal Storage & Data Protection System Administrator

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

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$82K/yr - $164K/yr

5+ years exp

RTX is a company dedicated to helping the nation and its allies defend freedoms. They are seeking a Principal Storage & Data Protection System Administrator to support critical programs involving classified information systems, focusing on developing and maintaining secure, cost-efficient environments for data management.

AerospaceManufacturingSecuritySensorTelecommunications

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

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

Qualification

StorageData ProtectionNetApp FAS platformsSecurity ClearanceMicrosoft enterprise infrastructureScriptingAutomationVirtualization experienceSecurity compliance platformsCollaboration skillsProblem-solving skillsDocumentation skills

Required

Typically requires a bachelor's degree with 5+ years of relevant systems administration experience, or master's 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

Preferred

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

Benefits

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

Holidays

Company

RTX

Glassdoor3.8

RTX is comprised of three market-leading businesses – Collins Aerospace, Pratt & Whitney and Raytheon – working as one to answer the biggest questions and solve the hardest problems in aerospace and defense.

Founded in 1922

Arlington, Virginia, USA

10001+ employees