Senior Linux & Cloud Distributed Systems Engineer – TS/SCI

Peraton; Laurel (MD); On-site; USD 146,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Heavily subsidized employee benefits

25 days of PTO accrued annually

Attractive bonus plan

Job summary

A national security company based in Laurel, Maryland, is seeking a Senior Cloud & Distributed Systems Engineer. The role focuses on administering and optimizing large-scale distributed systems, particularly Hadoop and Accumulo. Candidates should have at least 7 years of Linux experience and strong scripting skills. This position offers competitive salary ranging from $146,000 to $234,000 and excellent benefits, including significant paid time off and a bonus plan.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Linux systems administration experience.
• 5+ years scripting (Bash, Python, or Perl).
• 5 years with BS/BA or 3 years with MS/MA.
• Experience supporting large-scale distributed systems across multiple clusters.
• Hands-on experience with Hadoop, Accumulo, and distributed storage technologies.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize enterprise Linux systems across large distributed clusters.
• Monitor system health, performance, and reliability.
• Support and tune Hadoop (HDFS/YARN) and Accumulo environments.
• Engineer monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions.
• Automate infrastructure using scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code.

Skills

Linux systems administration

Scripting (Bash, Python, Perl)

Hadoop

Acccumulo

Kubernetes

Docker

Automation tools (Puppet, Ansible, Salt)

Networking fundamentals (VLANs, TCP/IP)

Incident response and root cause analysis

Education

BS/BA or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Grafana

ELK

Splunk

Job description

A national security company based in Laurel, Maryland, is seeking a Senior Cloud & Distributed Systems Engineer. The role focuses on administering and optimizing large-scale distributed systems, particularly Hadoop and Accumulo. Candidates should have at least 7 years of Linux experience and strong scripting skills. This position offers competitive salary ranging from $146,000 to $234,000 and excellent benefits, including significant paid time off and a bonus plan.