Senior Linux Systems Administrator — Active Secret Clearance

Lockheed Martin; Sunnyvale (CA); On-site; USD 107,000 - 198,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Flexible work arrangements (e.g., 4x10

401(k) match

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental Leave

EAP

Flexible Spending Accounts

Education Assistance

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Job summary

Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an IT professional for Enterprise Operations within the Space division. You will ensure IT systems are managed, controlled, and compliant with CIPM, handling upgrades, deployments, and incident response across servers, workstations, containers, networking, and storage.

The role emphasizes system administration, architecture skills, and support for classified environments, with after-hours work and on-call responsibilities as needed.

Qualifications

• Must have an Active Secret clearance
• Must be a U.S. Citizen
• Must have or be able to obtain a CompTIA Security+ certification or Higher DoD 8572 qualified certificate within the first 60 days of employment
• Direct work experience with Operating System life cycle management and configuration management (i.e., Installation/Upgrades, System Imaging, Account Management, Performance Monitoring, Ansible, etc.)
• Direct work experience using and administrating Unix or Linux Operating Systems
• Must have a solid understanding of Linux file permissions, and log-file troubleshooting tactics.

Skills

Active Secret clearance

U.S. Citizen

Security+ / DoD 8572 ready

Unix/Linux experience

Log-file troubleshooting

Tools

Ansible

Python

Bash

PowerShell

VMware

Windows Server

Job description

Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, CA is seeking an IT professional for Enterprise Operations within the Space division. You will ensure IT systems are managed, controlled, and compliant with CIPM, handling upgrades, deployments, and incident response across servers, workstations, containers, networking, and storage.

The role emphasizes system administration, architecture skills, and support for classified environments, with after-hours work and on-call responsibilities as needed.