Cloud Systems Engineer — 24/7 Linux & Kubernetes | TS Clearance

Chenega Professional Services Strategic Business Unit; Virginia; On-site; USD 154,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

Chenega MIOS seeks a Systems Engineer to deliver on-site 24/7/365 Tier 1 operations for Google Public Sector’s sovereign cloud environments, starting with GDC Air-Gapped support and expanding to additional air-gapped products.

The engineer monitors platform health, troubleshoots Linux and Kubernetes, executes runbooks, and coordinates with Customer Support Specialists and Google teams to meet service commitments.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on Linux systems administration, cloud operations, SRE, or Kubernetes administration.
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools (Grafana/Prometheus) and ticketing (ServiceNow).
• Scripting in Bash or Python and updating runbooks in Markdown.

Responsibilities

• Analyze GDC Air-Gapped infrastructure, Linux and Kubernetes health across cloud environments.
• Evaluate configs and changes; test improvements and assess risks.
• Perform start-of-shift health checks and run approved mitigation runbooks.

Skills

Linux

Kubernetes

Cloud operations

SRE practices

Grafana

Prometheus

ServiceNow

Education

Active DoD 8140/IAT Level II

Tools

kubectl

Linux commands

Markdown

Job description

Chenega MIOS seeks a Systems Engineer to deliver on-site 24/7/365 Tier 1 operations for Google Public Sector’s sovereign cloud environments, starting with GDC Air-Gapped support and expanding to additional air-gapped products.

The engineer monitors platform health, troubleshoots Linux and Kubernetes, executes runbooks, and coordinates with Customer Support Specialists and Google teams to meet service commitments.