Senior Linux Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & Ansible

Black Eagle Defense; Annapolis (MD); On-site; USD 190,000 - 247,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Eagle Defense is seeking an experienced Application Engineer IV to work across hosting platforms, supporting Linux VMs (RHEL 8/9) and cloud environments. You will gain deep product knowledge while diving into VM management and DevOps to ensure high system availability and operational support.

The role focuses on Kubernetes administration with Rancher, Ansible automation, security hardening per STIG/SSP, and log analysis to resolve performance issues.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree with extensive related experience.
• Strong Linux admin skills across RHEL 8/9, VMs, OpenStack, VMware.
• Kubernetes, Rancher, Ansible, plus security hardening and logging.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support Linux VMs across clusters and cloud environments.
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads and CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate deployments with Ansible and perform security hardening per standards.

Skills

Linux administration

VM management

Root-cause analysis

Scripting (Python)

Collaboration with Dev teams

Security best practices

Log analysis

Education

PhD + 4 years experience

Master's +6 years experience

Bachelor's +8 years experience

Associate +10 years experience

12 years experience (no degree)

Tools

Kubernetes

Rancher

Docker

OpenStack

OpenShift

Ansible

YUM / Linux patching

VMware

AWS

Job description

Black Eagle Defense is seeking an experienced Application Engineer IV to work across hosting platforms, supporting Linux VMs (RHEL 8/9) and cloud environments. You will gain deep product knowledge while diving into VM management and DevOps to ensure high system availability and operational support.

The role focuses on Kubernetes administration with Rancher, Ansible automation, security hardening per STIG/SSP, and log analysis to resolve performance issues.