Linux Systems Engineer

MANTECH; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MANTECH seeks an experienced and passionate Systems Engineer to join our team in the Fort Meade, MD area. The role focuses on building and maintaining enterprise virtualization, automation, and storage solutions across development, test, and production environments.

Ideal candidates will have a technical degree with extensive Systems Engineering experience, strong Linux skills, and hands-on expertise with Kubernetes/Rancher, Ansible/AAP, and VMware/Nutanix infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field with 14+ years of experience, or an Associate’s degree with 19+ years’ experience.
• Experience with Linux administration and engineering.
• 3+ years hands-on with Kubernetes/Rancher OR Ansible including AAP OR AWS provisioning, management, orchestration.
• Proficiency in Bash scripting and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with VMware vSphere OR Nutanix HCI.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage enterprise-level virtualized environments and infrastructure.
• Provide full-lifecycle systems administration for hardware and software across development, test, and production environments.
• Deploy and maintain IT automation solutions to streamline tasks within secure, isolated network architectures.
• Engineer and optimize scalable storage solutions and complex file system configurations.
• Author and present technical program documentation and briefings for senior management and stakeholders.

Skills

Linux administration

Bash scripting

Infrastructure automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical field

Associate’s degree with 19+ years’ experience

Tools

Kubernetes/Rancher

Ansible (AAP)

AWS provisioning/management/orchestration

VMware vSphere

Nutanix HCI

Job description

MANTECH seeks an experienced and passionate, career and customer-oriented Systems Engineer to join our team located in the Fort Meade, MD area.

Responsibilities Include, But Are Not Limited To

• Design, implement, and manage enterprise-level virtualized environments and infrastructure.
• Provide full-lifecycle systems administration for hardware and software across development, test, and production environments.
• Deploy and maintain IT automation solutions to streamline operational tasks within secure, isolated network architectures.
• Engineer and optimize scalable storage solutions and complex file system configurations.
• Author and present technical program documentation and briefings for senior-level management and stakeholders.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field and 14+ years of relevant Systems Engineering experience; or an Associate's degree with 19+ years’ experience.
• Experience with Linux administration and engineering.
• 3 years of active, hands-on experience using at least one of the following: Kubernetes/Rancher OR Ansible including AAP (Ansible Automation Platform) OR AWS Virtual Environment Provisioning, Management, Orchestration
• Proficiency in Bash scripting and infrastructure automation.
• Experience orchestrating enterprise virtualization (VMware vSphere) OR Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI).

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced scripting in Python or Perl.
• Proficiency in PKI certificate management and hardware security modules.
• Experience implementing automated security hardening (STIGs/CIS).
• AWS Virtual Environment Provisioning, Management, Orchestration Certification

Clearance Requirement

• Current/Active TS/SCI with Polygraph

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position at least 50% of the time.
• Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as, the copy machine/fax machine/computer/printer.