Remote Site Reliability Engineer: NixOS & Infra Automation

Leidos Inc; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 87,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

Kudu Dynamics is a small, employee-owned team seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate reliable compute platforms, with a focus on Nix/NixOS, infrastructure as code, and scalable systems. You will influence design across Linux, networking, storage, and security, while driving reproducibility and resilience.

You’ll work on declarative configurations, reusable modules, deployment pipelines, and capacity planning, with opportunities to learn adjacent areas and mentor others on the

Qualifications

• Enthusiasm for learning new stuff.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or amazing equivalent skills.
• Strong experience administering and troubleshooting Linux systems.
• Experience with Linux networking, storage, and file systems.
• Experience automating system configuration and deployment.
• Experience with Nix and/or NixOS in production, lab, or significant personal environments.
• Python, Go, Bash, or similar scripting/programming experience of 2+ years.
• Ability to debug complex systems methodically across multiple layers of the stack.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability and operation of critical compute and data platforms.
• Design, deploy, and maintain Linux infrastructure, including NixOS-based systems.
• Build reproducible system configurations and deployment workflows using Nix and infrastructure-as-code.
• Develop reusable NixOS modules, packages, flakes, and system configurations.
• Improve platform resilience, fault tolerance, recoverability, and maintainability.
• Build monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities that help us understand system behavior before customers notice problems.
• Diagnose difficult failures across Linux, networking, storage, containers, and distributed systems.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks and eliminate configuration drift.
• Design and build security and maintainability components for deployed systems.
• Help define operational standards, deployment practices, upgrade strategies, and disaster-recovery procedures.
• Perform capacity planning and identify performance bottlenecks across compute, storage, and networking.
• Own solutions spanning CNO, analytics, security, infrastructure, and field deployments.
• Learn new skills and teach the rest of us what you know.

Skills

Linux administration

Networking

Storage

Automation

Nix/NixOS

Scripting

Debugging

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Job description

Kudu Dynamics is a small, employee-owned team seeking a Site Reliability Engineer to build and operate reliable compute platforms, with a focus on Nix/NixOS, infrastructure as code, and scalable systems. You will influence design across Linux, networking, storage, and security, while driving reproducibility and resilience.

You’ll work on declarative configurations, reusable modules, deployment pipelines, and capacity planning, with opportunities to learn adjacent areas and mentor others on the