On-Site Linux Server Engineer – Mission-Critical Infra

Koitecc Solutions; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Leidos is seeking a Linux Server Systems Engineer to design, integrate, deploy, and optimize Linux-based server infrastructure across physical and virtual environments. The role focuses on reliable, secure, scalable systems supporting mission-critical capabilities at the Bethesda site.

Responsibilities include system design, automation, configuration management, hardening, and performance optimization, with collaboration across cyber, application, and operations teams to meet customer

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline and 4+ years of relevant experience.
• Experience engineering, deploying, integrating, and maintaining Linux/UNIX server environments.
• Experience with Linux server operating systems including RHEL, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, and/or Ubuntu.
• Experience designing, configuring, and maintaining Linux infrastructure in physical and virtual environments.
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite Server and/or Spacewalk for system lifecycle, patching, and configuration management.
• Experience engineering and implementing hardened Linux environments.
• Experience with configuration management and Infrastructure-as-Code/automation technologies such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, or Chef.
• Experience developing automation using Linux shell scripting, PowerShell, PowerCLI, Python, or comparable scripting/programming technologies.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, integrate, configure, and optimize Linux server solutions across physical and virtual infrastructure environments.
• Perform systems engineering activities including requirements analysis, functional analysis, technical trade studies, interface definition, requirements allocation, integration, system testing, and technical verification.
• Develop technical solutions supporting the implementation, modernization, scalability, reliability, and lifecycle management of enterprise Linux infrastructure.
• Analyze complex system and infrastructure issues, identify root causes, and develop engineering solutions that prevent recurrence and improve system resiliency.
• Evaluate existing infrastructure architecture, configurations, utilization, and performance to identify opportunities for optimization and modernization.
• Design and implement automation for system provisioning, configuration, patching, compliance, monitoring, and lifecycle management using tools such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef, and scripting languages.

Skills

Linux server engineering

Systems thinking

Technical communication

scripting languages

Automation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, CS, IT, or related field

Tools

Red Hat Satellite/Spacewalk

Ansible

Salt

Puppet

Chef

VMware virtualization

Job description

Leidos is seeking a Linux Server Systems Engineer to design, integrate, deploy, and optimize Linux-based server infrastructure across physical and virtual environments. The role focuses on reliable, secure, scalable systems supporting mission-critical capabilities at the Bethesda site.

Responsibilities include system design, automation, configuration management, hardening, and performance optimization, with collaboration across cyber, application, and operations teams to meet customer