Linux System Engineer

Leidos is looking for a Linux System Engineer to join a dynamic Customer team supporting large, complex and secure environments. This position is located in the Northern Virginia area and requires an active TS/SCI with Polygraph in order to be considered.

Primary responsibilities include:

• All aspects of the product development life cycle – creating, implementing, and supporting new product features and capabilities;
• Improving data processing methods; monitoring and tracking system performance via metrics; managing system access control and security; and systems support including maintenance items such as patching.
• The Linux Systems Engineer will establish and maintain pre-production environments and will assist in developing and implementing a plan to migrate existing applications from the physical server infrastructure to the enterprise level C2S platform.
• They will also be responsible for helping to support hundreds of Linux/UNIX machines, VMWare hosts, and EC2 instances in a hybrid computing environment. 

Basic Qualifications:

• Must have a TS/SCI with poly to be considered
• Must have a Bachelor's degree and minimum 8 years’ experience or 12 years’ experience in lieu of degree
• Demonstrated experience with Linux system administration and engineering
• Demonstrated experience with Linux system patching
• Experience with Linux CentOS 7, Red Hat 7 and/or Scientific Linux 5 (SL5), CentOS8, Red Hat 8
• Demonstrated experience managing backup and recovery and systems and data.
• Demonstrated experience with configuration build support and documentation
• Experience working with and configuration of encryption
• Experience working with security team to fix and mitigate vulnerabilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge and/or experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), VMware and/or other virtualization platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to identify complex problems, evaluate options and identify viable solutions.
• Scripting experience
• Experience with security standards, processes and tools
• Experience working with JIRA

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

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.