Battlespace Systems Administrator - Defence IT & Space

Raytheon Australia; City of Salisbury; On-site; AUD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Raytheon Australia is seeking a Battlespace System Administrator to support the Battlespace Surveillance Centre at the RAAF Edinburgh base. The role involves managing diverse IT server and network infrastructure across Windows, Linux and Unix environments to ensure mission-critical operations run smoothly.

You will lead daily system maintenance, security, backups, and incident response while collaborating with Defence partners and depot teams.

Qualifications

• Certificate IV or degree in computer science, information technology, engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum of 2 years' relevant experience.
• Experience in a Systems Administration 2nd/3rd level support (UNIX, Linux and Microsoft).
• Experience monitoring a complex IT environment.
• Experience diagnosing networking faults.
• Relevant industry qualifications such as: DoD 8570 IAT Level II, MSCA, RHCSA, CCNA, CISSP/Security+/CCNA Security.
• Must be eligible to obtain/maintain Negative Vetting Level 2 Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical operations for BSC’s IT server and communication solutions that comply with Raytheon and Defence standards and security policies.
• Manage system accounts, permissions and directory operations for service delivery teams.
• Contribute to Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Plans for server and communication infrastructure.
• Monitor system performance.
• Manage OS, firmware, and software updates, including security updates.
• Perform system and network configuration maintenance.
• Manage backups and recovery protocols.
• Install and manage firewall and intrusion-detection systems.
• Manage backups for data collection.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and coordinate maintenance actions.
• Coordinate with and support depot-level maintenance actions.

Skills

UNIX/Linux

Windows/Microsoft

Network diagnostics

Incident management

Security awareness

Disaster Recovery planning

System monitoring

Troubleshooting

Education

Certificate IV/Degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

DoD 8570 IAT Level II

MSCA

RHCSA

CCNA

CISSP/CISSP Security+/CCNA Security

Job description

Raytheon Australia is seeking a Battlespace System Administrator to support the Battlespace Surveillance Centre at the RAAF Edinburgh base. The role involves managing diverse IT server and network infrastructure across Windows, Linux and Unix environments to ensure mission-critical operations run smoothly.

You will lead daily system maintenance, security, backups, and incident response while collaborating with Defence partners and depot teams.