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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Linux System Engineer - **Company:** Leidos, Inc. - **Location:** United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $73,450.0 - $132,775.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Systems Engineering, Confluence, JIRA, Linux, Elasticsearch, Identity and Access Management, Network Diagrams, Oracle (Applications), Logstash, S3 Bucket, Oracle Access Manager, Cloud Platform System, Kubernetes, Information Technology, Bitbucket, Kibana - **Published:** June 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/nva/sof/d/chantilly-linux-system-engineer/7938512642.html ## About the Role * Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or reled discipline plus 4-6 years of professional experience as a Systems Administror or similar technical role. * Proactive self-starter demonstring a positive, willing titude and excellent oral and written communicion skills. * Two or more years of experience with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.) * Familiar with System Engineering documention creion (network diagrams, da flows, etc.) * Experience working with Agile Team Collaborion tools such as (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket) * Strong Linux background and familiarity with best practices of infrastructure management * Active TS/SCI with CI Poly preferred Preferred Qualificions * Oracle COTS product experience (Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Unified Directory, etc.) * Experience with Kubernetes * Experience with Elastic tools (ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash) * Experience with AWS and other cloud vendors. * Experience with Amazon Web Services technical performance versus cost management * Experience with cloud-based architectures * Familiar with cross domain architectures various levels * Experience with automed testing and monitoring * Experience with Engineering Review Boards and Change Management If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the stus quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares. ## Description Leidos is seeking an experienced Linux Systems Engineer to provide support to a mission critical enterprise identity and access management system. A successful candide will develop an understanding of the services offered to external organizions, provide lifecycle systems engineering support to development and operions on the program, and use a combinion of technical and functional expertise to recommend solutions to sisfy customer requirements. Primary Responsibilities * Design, develop, and support cloud initiives to support customer driven needs * Communice and mitige operional issues as received. Work to proactively identify RCA of baseline issues and establish a feedback loop to development. * Work as a SME to review user metrics, system health, overall performance checkouts and implements proactive measures to support operional availability * Responsible for deployment support as a product SME. 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