Sr Linux Systems Administrator (DevOps/OpenShift)
6 - 10 years
Kansas City, MO
Full-time
Hybrid
1 month ago
About the role
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Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address critical challenges linked to global macrotrends such as safety, security, productivity, global urbanization and energy. With approximately 100,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, Honeywell has an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything they make and do. Honeywell has been named a Top 100 Global Innovator for seven years in a row, recognizing the company’s global reach of portfolio and invention influence.
In Kansas City, Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (FM&T) manages and operates the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Kansas City National Security Campus. This state-of-the-art engineering, manufacturing and sourcing facility produces a wide array of intricate components to deliver trusted national security products and government services primarily for the NNSA. Honeywell FM&T’s culture of integrity, commitment and continuous improvement enables them to deliver responsive, collaborative and innovative management and technology services and products that translate into cutting edge solutions to complex national security issues.
Summary
The Sr Systems Administrator performs and oversees a variety of functions to ensure IT infrastructure is available, reliable, secure, and stable. They will apply advanced judgment and analysis in the evaluation, selection, installation, and maintenance of systems software and hardware. This role will be responsible for monitoring systems and serving as a focal point for support. The Sr Systems Administrator will plan for the future by setting and documenting direction for their specific area of responsibility for the information systems infrastructure is expected.
Primary duties will revolve around applying Linux skills to manage and support all aspects of our Red Hat OpenShift environments including DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
Duties and Responsibilities
You Must Have
We Value
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This job description/job posting is not all inclusive and other duties may be assigned.
Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to submit an application, please send an email to our Reasonable Accommodation Support Team at
To learn more about our benefits and culture follow the link below:
Additional Information
Honeywell is a Fortune 100 company that invents and manufactures technologies to address critical challenges linked to global macrotrends such as safety, security, productivity, global urbanization and energy. With approximately 100,000 employees worldwide, including more than 19,000 engineers and scientists, Honeywell has an unrelenting focus on quality, delivery, value, and technology in everything they make and do. Honeywell has been named a Top 100 Global Innovator for seven years in a row, recognizing the company’s global reach of portfolio and invention influence.
In Kansas City, Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies (FM&T) manages and operates the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Kansas City National Security Campus. This state-of-the-art engineering, manufacturing and sourcing facility produces a wide array of intricate components to deliver trusted national security products and government services primarily for the NNSA. Honeywell FM&T’s culture of integrity, commitment and continuous improvement enables them to deliver responsive, collaborative and innovative management and technology services and products that translate into cutting edge solutions to complex national security issues.
Summary
The Sr Systems Administrator performs and oversees a variety of functions to ensure IT infrastructure is available, reliable, secure, and stable. They will apply advanced judgment and analysis in the evaluation, selection, installation, and maintenance of systems software and hardware. This role will be responsible for monitoring systems and serving as a focal point for support. The Sr Systems Administrator will plan for the future by setting and documenting direction for their specific area of responsibility for the information systems infrastructure is expected.
Primary duties will revolve around applying Linux skills to manage and support all aspects of our Red Hat OpenShift environments including DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Independent ability to quickly analyze, isolate and diagnose complex problems, recommend remedial actions, and implement resolutions.
- Applies advanced technical methodologies to the computing infrastructure, monitor operating efficiencies, performance tuning and assist in capacity planning.
- Reviews, evaluates and recommends new or upgraded systems software packages and related hardware, based on established standards.
- Develops detailed implementation plans based on the architectural plans and complete implementation.
- Serves as Technical Lead on medium to large enterprise projects according to division standards and requirements.
- Transforms business requirements into technical architecture requirements and design application architectures, which are scalable, robust, and manageable, while balancing the price/performance.
- Works closely and escalates issues directly with vendors to ensure that supporting operating systems are compliant with applications, including required patch levels, hot fixes, and revisions.
- Implements application and database high availability techniques and application/network security concepts.
You Must Have
- 5+ years of systems administration experience and 0-2 years of project or technical consultant responsibility.
- Bachelor's degree in the field of Information Systems, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering, with a minimum of 24 semester hours of computer-related courses, or two additional years of direct work experience.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time
- Ability to work remote, hybrid, or on-site as directed by management and is determined by the needs of the business.
- Regular and reliable attendance is an essential function of this job
- United States Citizenship
- Ability to obtain and maintain, if required for position, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) security clearance (some positions require additional DOE designations)
We Value
- Advanced knowledge of specific operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) servers, peripheral devices and workstations.
- Support and operate multi tenant OpenShift clusters environments.
- Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines and cluster lifecycle workflows using tools such as Jenkins, Tekton, GitLab CI, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and OpenShift GitOps/Argo CD to provision, scale, upgrade, back up/restore clusters, and promote container images to OpenShift registries.
- Provide developer support and knowledge transfer, troubleshooting builds, deployments, and runtime issues.
- Skilled in containerization (Docker/OCI), image‑building (Dockerfiles, multi‑stage builds), security hardening & scanning, registry management, and Kubernetes‑ready deployments.
- Document architecture, SOPs, and runbooks; conduct knowledge‑transfer sessions for development and operations teams.
- Effective communication skills to partner closely with citizen analysts and Data Scientists.
- Highly skilled in scripting/programming languages (like Bash, Python, YAML) to support database, web, and application administration.
- Experience with configuration management tools (Puppet, Chef, Ansible).
- Proven ability to mentor peers to better results and identify appropriate training to improve team’s technical bench strength.
- Ability to develop and communicate a technical vision that is easily understood by all levels of management.
- Knowledge and experienced with installation, configuration and administration of enterprise web services, application servers, databases, clustering backup and recovery systems, portals, firewalls, virtual private networks, terminal services, authentication and authorization, collaboration, and load balancing.
#FMT2021
This job description/job posting is not all inclusive and other duties may be assigned.
Honeywell is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regard to age, race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, sex, religion, or veteran status.
If you require a reasonable accommodation to submit an application, please send an email to our Reasonable Accommodation Support Team at
To learn more about our benefits and culture follow the link below:
Additional Information
- Job ID: 4223
- Category: Information Technology
- Level of Experience:
- Posting Location: Kansas City National Security Campus 14520 Botts Road Kansas City, MO, 64147
- Remote Eligibility: On-Site
- Travel Required: 0-10%
- Approved Work States: MO; KS; NM
- Hourly/Salary: Salary
Skills
Defense and Space ManufacturingInformation Technology