Linux Systems Engineer

Description

The Leidos National Solutions Division has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Linux System Administrator to work on cloud-based systems with a mission operations team. The team is involved in operations and sustainment of multiple operational cloud deployed geospatial solutions. A successful candidate will have experience with installation, configuration, administration, support and maintenance of cloud-based systems.

Primary responsibilities will involve taking a leadership role in system changes and improvements; working directly with government and contractor POCs to troubleshoot and responding to security reports; proactively monitoring all operational systems and performing some of the more complex health checks; deploying security patches and bug fixes to test and operational environments; updating critical databases with new data; authoring and updating operational and security documentation, including troubleshooting guides and SOPs.

• TS/SCI Clearance w/ Poly (or ability to pass Poly upon hire)
• DOD 8570 Certification (Security+ or equivalent or higher)
• Typically requires BS and 4 — 8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2 — 6 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience in AWS/Cloud technologies
• Advanced Linux administration experience with RHEL 8 or higher
• Knowledge of Systems, Architectural, SW Development and SW Sustainment Practices
• Proactive self-starter demonstrates a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Organizational
  
  Skills:
  
  Can plan and prioritize work. Follow tasks to their logical conclusion and make sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail.
• Communications:
  Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently with team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context.

• Experience with ArcGIS/ESRI automation and deployments
• IAC (Cloud Formation, Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
• Automation (Lambda, Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, Git)
• Low-level Engineering (Git, Jira, Agile tools/methods)
• Containers (Docker, ECS, EKS, Fargate, AKS)
• Power Shell and Bash
• Understanding of RDS and SQL Technology
• AWS Solutions Architect, AWS Developer, Certification(s)
• Experience with IC Cloud Architecture implementation methodologies
• Team Collaboration tools and administration (Jira, Confluence, Rocket Chat)

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February 24, 2026

Pay Range $87,100.00 – $

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit

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