Senior Systems Engineer — Antarctic IT Mission

Leidos; Reston (VA); Presencial; USD 92.000 - 167.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Leidos seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to support the United States Antarctic Program under NSF ASC. You will design, deploy, and maintain Linux-based infrastructure across production systems, with potential temporary deployments to Antarctica.

As a senior member of the IT&C Data Systems Team, you will mentor junior staff and participate in 24x7 support rotations while ensuring security best practices and DISA STIGs are followed.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field with 4+ years of experience.
• Proven Linux administration expertise, especially RHEL.
• Experience with VMware, Hyper-V, OpenShift, container orchestration.
• Scripting with Bash or Python; Git and CI/CD tooling.
• Red Hat Satellite, Ansible playbooks, security patch management.
• Elastic Stack or Splunk with Zabbix, and MariaDB/MySQL experience.

Responsabilidades

• Design, engineer, and implement infrastructure projects aligned with USAP mission requirements.
• Analyze, specify, and document communications and systems requirements for distributed environments.
• Lead installation, configuration, migration, and upgrades across multi-platform systems (Linux, Windows, Hyper-V/VMware).
• Administer and maintain RHEL systems and services.
• Manage containerized workloads and OpenShift clusters.
• Perform backup and recovery operations and monitor system performance using tools like Elastic Stack and Zabbix.
• Maintain secure configurations aligned with DISA STIGs and other cybersecurity best practices.
• Develop automation using Ansible, bash, and Python scripts.
• Administer Red Hat Satellite and Git environments.
• Manage DNS/DHCP configurations (BIND).
• Create and maintain technical documentation; provide mentorship and code reviews.
• Participate in a 24x7 support rotation and escalation.

Conocimientos

Linux administration

Bash/Python scripting

CI/CD

Communication skills

Project management

Self-motivation

Customer service mindset

Budget management

Educación

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

Herramientas

VMware

Hyper-V

Red Hat OpenShift

Ansible

Git

Red Hat Satellite

Elastic Stack

Zabbix

MariaDB/MySQL

BIND DNS servers

Descripción del empleo

Leidos seeks a Senior Systems Engineer to support the United States Antarctic Program under NSF ASC. You will design, deploy, and maintain Linux-based infrastructure across production systems, with potential temporary deployments to Antarctica.

As a senior member of the IT&C Data Systems Team, you will mentor junior staff and participate in 24x7 support rotations while ensuring security best practices and DISA STIGs are followed.