Senior Linux Systems Engineer - Cloud & Distributed Systems

Peraton; Maryland; On-site; USD 146,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days PTO annually

Enhanced employee benefits coverage

Discretionary bonus plan

Job summary

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud & Distributed Systems Engineer to support mission-critical, cloud-based data repositories in a dynamic Intelligence Community environment.

You will administer large Hadoop/Accumulo clusters, ensure reliability and security, and collaborate across infrastructure, networking, and security domains to maintain continuous mission availability. This role emphasizes reliability over routine admin work, with after-hours on-call support.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Linux systems administration experience.
• 5+ years scripting (Bash, Python, or Perl).
• Experience supporting large-scale distributed systems across multiple clusters.
• Hands-on experience with Hadoop, Accumulo, and distributed storage technologies.
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Familiarity with automation tools (Puppet, Ansible, Salt) and IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation).
• Knowledge of monitoring platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk).
• Understanding of networking fundamentals (VLANs, TCP/IP, load balancing).
• Experience with high-availability design, storage architecture, and disaster recovery.
• System hardening and security compliance experience.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize enterprise Linux systems across large distributed clusters (60+ nodes).
• Monitor system health, performance, and reliability; troubleshoot complex issues.
• Support and tune Hadoop (HDFS/YARN) and Accumulo environments.
• Engineer monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions.
• Automate infrastructure using scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Patch, harden, and secure systems in compliance with security standards.
• Manage LDAP-based user accounts and core Linux services.
• Support Kubernetes-based containerized workloads.
• Participate in architecture discussions and cross-team engineering efforts.
• Contribute to incident response and root cause analysis.

Skills

Linux systems administration

Scripting (Bash/Python/Perl)

Kubernetes

Docker

Automation (Puppet/Ansible/Salt)

Monitoring (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/Spl

Networking fundamentals

High-availability design

Security/compliance

Education

BS/BA in related field

MS/MA in related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Docker

Puppet

Ansible

Salt

Terraform

CloudFormation

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Peraton is seeking a Senior Cloud & Distributed Systems Engineer to support mission-critical, cloud-based data repositories in a dynamic Intelligence Community environment.

You will administer large Hadoop/Accumulo clusters, ensure reliability and security, and collaborate across infrastructure, networking, and security domains to maintain continuous mission availability. This role emphasizes reliability over routine admin work, with after-hours on-call support.