About the job Linux System Engineer
POSITION: Linux System Engineer
WORK LOCATION: Chantilly, VA
JOB CATEGORY: Information Technology
JOB TYPE: Full-Time
CITIZENSHIP: United States Citizen
CLEARANCE TYPE: Top Secret/SCI with Poly
TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: None
We are currently seeking a Linux System Engineer to join our team in Chantilly, VA in support of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The NGA delivers world-class geospatial intelligence that provides a decisive advantage to policymakers, military service members, intelligence professionals, and first responders.
Job Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and support cloud initiatives to support customer driven needs
- Communicate and mitigate operational issues as received. Work to proactively identify RCA of baseline issues and establish a feedback loop to development.
- Work as a SME to review user metrics, system health, overall performance checkouts and implements proactive measures to support operational availability
- Responsible for deployment support as a product SME. Provide backfill tasking and troubleshooting script/playbook-based automation processes as necessary.
- Manage several environments as a Linux SME providing overall support to the program and working with Enterprise Services to ensure compliance with security services and applications.
Requirements
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 4-6 years of professional experience as a Systems Administrator or similar technical role.
- Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Two or more years of experience with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.)
- Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (network diagrams, data flows, etc.)
- Experience working with Agile Team Collaboration tools such as (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)
- Strong Linux background and familiarity with best practices of infrastructure management.
- All candidates must be US CITIZENS to be considered for the position.
- Must have and be capable of maintaining a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance at the required level.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Oracle COTS product experience (Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Unified Directory, etc.)
- Experience with Kubernetes
- Experience with Elastic tools (ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash)
- Experience with AWS and other cloud vendors.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services technical performance versus cost management
- Experience with cloud-based architectures
- Familiar with cross domain architectures at various levels
- Experience with automated testing and monitoring
- Experience with Engineering Review Boards and Change Management
To Apply for this Position:
You must have the Minimum Qualifications in your resume to be selected as a candidate.
The salary range provided is a good faith estimate representative of all experience levels.
Hired applicants may be eligible for benefits, including but not limited to, medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, 401(k) match, flexible spending accounts, flexible work schedules, parental leave, paid time off, and holidays. Specific benefits are dependent upon the specific business unit as well as whether or not the position is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement.
This role is a U.S.-based role. If the successful candidate resides in a U.S. territory, the appropriate pay structure and benefits will apply.?
As part of the federal government's transition to the Trusted Workforce 2.0 Continuous Vetting framework, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) is expanding enrollment in the FBI Rap Back program for cleared industry personnel beginning April 1, 2026.
Rap Back (Record of Arrest and Prosecution Back) is a service provided by the FBI that allows authorized agencies to receive notifications if there are updates to an individual's criminal history record while they hold a security clearance. This supports continuous vetting of cleared personnel.
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Salary DescriptionUp to $160K USD