Linux Systems Engineer - TS/SCI with Poly, Cloud

E&M Technologies, Inc.; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

E&M Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Linux System Engineer to join our team in Chantilly, VA, supporting the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The role emphasizes design, deployment, and operational support for Linux-based environments and cloud initiatives within a security-conscious program.

The ideal candidate will hold a U.S. citizen status, possess a Top Secret/SCI with poly clearance, and bring hands-on experience with AWS, Linux administration, and collaboration tools.

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 with positive 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) Top Secret/SCI security clearance upon hire and must be willing and able to obtain a polygraph within the customer’s timeline after hire. Applicants selected will be subject to a U.S. Government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information

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.

Skills

AWS experience

Linux expertise

US citizenship

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Kubernetes

Elastic Stack

Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket

Job description

E&M Technologies, Inc. is seeking a Linux System Engineer to join our team in Chantilly, VA, supporting the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. The role emphasizes design, deployment, and operational support for Linux-based environments and cloud initiatives within a security-conscious program.

The ideal candidate will hold a U.S. citizen status, possess a Top Secret/SCI with poly clearance, and bring hands-on experience with AWS, Linux administration, and collaboration tools.