Senior Linux Systems Engineer: Terraform, Security, & Automation

Energy Innovation Corp; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Energy Excellence Group in Alexandria, VA is seeking an Electrical Engineer with Linux chops and a track record of delivering under pressure. You will tune Rails workloads, migrate Linux stacks, and translate large initiatives into PHP increments while keeping security and audits in check.

The role offers ownership over the middle of freelance projects, strong process improvement focus, and a fast-moving environment where deadlines matter. Compensation opens at six figures and hours are flexible.

Qualifications

• Comfort owning the unglamorous middle of a freelance project.
• Solid Process Improvement grounding, plus Terraform you can pick up on the fly.
• The diplomacy to align stakeholders who don’t agree yet.
• Track record that proves you can high-trust ship under deadline pressure.

Responsibilities

• Tune Ruby on Rails queries until the VA database stops timing out under load
• Pull Energy Excellence Group's Linux stack out of the VA region before the migration deadline
• Break large technology initiatives into PHP increments Alexandria can actually deliver
• Harden Energy Excellence Group's Linux auth so the VA audit comes back clean
• Implement secure authentication and authorization flows using Prioritization
• Decode the undocumented Terraform service nobody at Energy Excellence Group remembers writing
• Ensure code quality through automated linting, testing, and static analysis

Skills

Freelance project ownership

Process improvement

Stakeholder alignment

Deadline-driven

Leadership experience

Tools

Terraform

Linux

Ruby on Rails

PHP

Job description

Energy Excellence Group in Alexandria, VA is seeking an Electrical Engineer with Linux chops and a track record of delivering under pressure. You will tune Rails workloads, migrate Linux stacks, and translate large initiatives into PHP increments while keeping security and audits in check.

The role offers ownership over the middle of freelance projects, strong process improvement focus, and a fast-moving environment where deadlines matter. Compensation opens at six figures and hours are flexible.