Senior Remote Systems Architect — Cybersecurity & Linux

RTX; United States; Remote; USD 132,000 - 252,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Vacation time

401(k) plan with match

Tuition reimbursement

Employee assistance

Job summary

RTX, in partnership with Applied Signal Technology (AST), seeks a Senior Multi-Disciplined Systems Architect to strengthen national security through robust cybersecurity strategy and system hardening. The role emphasizes Linux administration, automation, and cross-team collaboration in a remote environment reporting to the San Jose area.

Ideal candidates will have a STEM degree, 10+ years of relevant experience, and active Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Ability to demonstrate administration of RHEL 7/8/9, including systemd, firewalld, and SELinux.
• Ability to demonstrate administration of NetApp enterprise storage.
• Ability to obtain and maintain 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.

Responsibilities

• Lead, develop, document, and implement a robust Cybersecurity mitigation strategy by ensuring Linux IT resources are patched and hardened in accordance with NIST-800-171 guidelines.
• Collaborate with Cyber teams to maintain and monitor system availability, performance, and logs using enterprise tools.
• Leverage industry standards to build out automation workflows
• Champion processes regarding hardware and software issues across physical and virtualized environments (VMWare)
• Work closely with operations, supply chain and legal teams to support mission objectives.
• Support audit readiness activities and respond to security vulnerability findings.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior system administrators.
• Leverage ticketing system to resolve incidents submitted by end users
• Travel up to 15%

Skills

RHEL Administration

System hardening

Bash scripting

Scripting (Python)

VMware

NetApp storage

Security clearance

Active Directory/LDAP

Education

STEM degree

Tools

Ansible

Splunk

Zabbix

RHCSA / LPIC

NetApp OnTap

AD/LDAP

Job description

RTX, in partnership with Applied Signal Technology (AST), seeks a Senior Multi-Disciplined Systems Architect to strengthen national security through robust cybersecurity strategy and system hardening. The role emphasizes Linux administration, automation, and cross-team collaboration in a remote environment reporting to the San Jose area.

Ideal candidates will have a STEM degree, 10+ years of relevant experience, and active Secret clearance.