Top Remote Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

Deploys and maintains UDS and Kubernetes platforms in secure bare-metal environments. Responsibilities include configuring GPU compute, storage, and networking; managing infrastructure as code; supporting secure software delivery; troubleshooting platform services; and collaborating with mission stakeholders and engineering teams. The role is remote in the United States and requires U.S. citizenship, with 15–25% travel.

The Site Reliability Engineer II ensures the reliability, availability, performance, and security of critical cloud systems and services. Responsibilities include developing automation for provisioning and configuration management, maintaining monitoring and alerting, optimizing infrastructure performance, supporting high availability, and enabling continuous integration and delivery. The role collaborates with security teams and drives operational improvements across cloud and network infrastructure.

Designs and maintains automation scripts for network provisioning, application deployment, CI/CD integration, regression testing, and server monitoring. Deploys applications to WebLogic and JBoss, supports development-to-production transitions, and builds proactive alerting for server and application health using Python, Bash, and shell scripting.

Designs, scales, and manages AWS WorkSpaces virtual desktop environments, including operating systems, compute, storage, directory and identity integrations, MFA, encryption, networking, monitoring, patching, troubleshooting, application delivery, and cost optimization. The role also requires securing streaming protocols, automating user provisioning, and supporting AWS infrastructure through scripting and core AWS services.

Build and automate infrastructure while supporting migration to AWS. Develop internal engineering and AI-agent tooling, architect secure and highly available applications, modernize WordPress systems, troubleshoot complex environments, and provide rotating 24/7 on-call support. The role also requires designing AWS multi-account strategies, developing CI/CD pipelines, applying specification-driven development, monitoring systems, forecasting cloud costs, and supporting scalable web applications.

Deploy, manage, validate, and optimize large-scale AI compute and HPC infrastructure in Linux environments. Serve as a technical liaison among NVIDIA, partners, and enterprise customers; lead planning through implementation, document handoffs, transfer knowledge, troubleshoot hardware and software, and provide feedback for product and architecture improvements. The role involves networking, system design, automation, benchmarking, cluster provisioning, and customer-site travel up to 30%.

Operate at Staff-level to diagnose and resolve complex customer issues, contribute production-quality code to GitLab, drive AI adoption (Duo Agent Platform), and translate field learnings into durable product improvements, guidance, and thought leadership while coordinating cross-functional teams.

Own the technical success of strategic customer deployments from design through production. Collaborate with customer architects, operators, and developers to optimize infrastructure, debug distributed systems and storage issues, build automation and API solutions, and translate operational needs into product improvements. Serve as the customer advocate within engineering while managing high-stakes technical challenges and deployment expectations. Travel or work onsite at customer locations up to 25%.

Designs, deploys, and optimizes production Kubernetes clusters across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Builds CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, and Infrastructure as Code automation for cloud-native platforms. Advises customers on complex container infrastructure challenges, troubleshoots production environments, and partners with engineering and support teams. Architects highly available containerized infrastructure, scale-out data platforms, and storage solutions for modern databases and data-processing workloads.

Build and maintain reliable, scalable cloud compute platforms across distributed services. Troubleshoot Linux, networking, and production issues; develop automation and AI-assisted tooling; improve monitoring, alerting, SLIs, and SLOs; conduct incident response and root cause analysis; and partner with engineering teams on system design, deployment safety, and operational readiness.

Designs and maintains system architectures across applications, infrastructure, and platforms. Provides technical leadership, translates requirements into scalable and secure solutions, optimizes reliability and performance, supports system integration, and collaborates with development, DevOps, security, and business stakeholders. Maintains technical documentation and participates in Agile delivery and continuous improvement. Preferred experience includes federal contracts, migrations, Ansible, Linux, Red Hat, cloud platforms, DevOps, CI/CD, and secure system design.

Designs and executes automated, API, UI, regression, smoke, and end-to-end tests for cloud-native and air-gapped federal environments. Integrates test suites with GitLab CI and Jenkins, validates security and compliance baselines, diagnoses Linux and Windows systems, and documents test plans, defects, and results. The role supports reliable deployment of cyber-physical security solutions across government and critical infrastructure environments.

Design and implement high-performance, 3GPP-compliant 5G Core control- and user-plane functions on ARM-based embedded Linux. Develop in C/Go/Rust, use DPDK for packet processing, optimize latency/throughput, debug protocol and performance issues, and collaborate cross-functionally to integrate carrier-grade systems.

Develop and optimize UE Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocol stack (MAC, RLC, PDCP, RRC, NAS) for LTE and 5G NR. Implement 3GPP features, debug with protocol analyzers, integrate with PHY/L1, run functional and performance tests using UE simulators and network emulators, and ensure operator compliance.

Architect and improve AWS infrastructure, build and maintain Kubernetes platforms, automate provisioning with infrastructure as code, and support CI/CD delivery. The role improves security, reliability, scalability, performance, and quality while helping development teams apply DevOps practices. Responsibilities include application and environment configuration, production support, and participation in an on-call rotation.

Architect and improve AWS infrastructure, build and automate Kubernetes platforms, develop IaC and CI/CD pipelines, and support production deployments. The role focuses on system security, reliability, scalability, performance, and configuration while enabling engineering teams with DevOps best practices. Responsibilities include production on-call support, application and environment configuration, and infrastructure support for product development projects.

Owns the cloud architecture vision and roadmap for an AWS-first, multi-cloud SaaS environment. Designs secure, resilient, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure; leads cloud modernization; enables AI and data platforms; establishes Terraform, CI/CD, observability, security, governance, and reliability standards; and partners with engineering, security, operations, customers, auditors, and leadership. Coordinates major incident response and drives self-service infrastructure and developer experience improvements.

The Senior Network Architect is responsible for designing and implementing solutions for global networks, focusing on SD-WAN and automation. They work with internal teams and vendors to deliver scalable solutions and provide high-level technical support.

Lead a product engineering team to own roadmaps, design scalable cloud-native systems, ship customer-facing features, ensure quality and reliability, hire and mentor engineers, and coordinate cross-functional delivery.

Own and operate large-scale infrastructure for sports betting and media platforms across cloud and production environments. Lead infrastructure migrations, build Kubernetes platform tooling and CI/CD automation, improve observability and alerting, support development teams, and participate in incident response. The role requires strong distributed-systems expertise, production troubleshooting, cross-team project leadership, technical communication, and mentoring.

Operate and maintain AWS infrastructure, including EKS, EC2, RDS/Aurora, ElastiCache, S3, and IAM. Manage deployments, build reusable Terraform modules and Helm charts, maintain GitLab CI templates, troubleshoot networking, IAM, and Kubernetes issues, and improve observability and platform stability with Datadog. Partner with application teams to communicate platform standards and participate in production on-call ownership.

Leads functional, system, regression, integration, and black-box testing for web applications and server-based interfaces. Develops test plans, test cases, schedules, data strategies, and evaluation procedures from requirements and user stories. Executes SQL queries, API and web-service testing, manages defects, validates software deployments, documents QA processes, troubleshoots installation issues, and provides technical leadership to junior analysts while supporting cross-functional teams and client engagements.

Performs functional, system, regression, integration, and specialized Section 508 accessibility testing for USDA digital products. Tests web, mobile, documents, APIs, and integrated systems using WCAG, DHS Trusted Tester, automated tools, and assistive technologies. Develops test plans and traceability, documents defects and remediation guidance, provides compliance sign-off, reviews designs, supports shift-left accessibility, collaborates on CI/CD scanning, and mentors junior QA analysts.

Build, maintain, and operate Ookla’s globally distributed infrastructure platform at massive scale. Responsibilities include managing cloud instances, containers, serverless applications, databases, streaming systems, and big-data tooling; supporting 24/7 production operations and on-call rotations; implementing security programs; improving deployment pipelines, monitoring, observability, and reliability; and guiding software and data engineering teams on operational best practices and troubleshooting.

Design, build, and operate highly available GCP infrastructure for trading-critical systems. Own Terraform-based Infrastructure-as-Code, GitOps workflows, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes and GKE operations, observability, networking, data stores, and message brokers. Build self-service developer platforms, implement SRE practices, manage incidents and postmortems, and participate in a global follow-the-sun on-call rotation.