Top Senior Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

Lead technical direction and architecture for expeditionary autonomy across V-BAT and X-BAT. Drive development, integration, validation, and fielding of mission autonomy, flight-autonomy interfaces, payloads, and multi-agent capabilities. Mentor senior engineers, influence cross-team engineering standards, support deployments and operational readiness, and define long-term strategy and interoperability for defense customers.

Build and maintain scalable infrastructure platforms supporting domestic and international workloads. Develop CI/CD, declarative lifecycle management, Kubernetes clusters, monitoring, and automation systems. Troubleshoot infrastructure issues, respond to alerts, minimize downtime, streamline delivery pipelines and database changes, and help guide SRE team direction. Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and technology professionals while promoting a high-performance, cross-functional culture.

Lead architecture, development, and delivery of Azure SmartNIC and networking software, including RDMA, virtualization, hardware offloads, and high-performance networking. Collaborate across hardware, firmware, silicon, and cloud teams; improve reliability and performance using telemetry; guide platform strategy; troubleshoot production systems; and provide technical leadership through design reviews, mentoring, and incident response.

Design and scale ARM64 compute platform infrastructure, hypervisor integrations, instance management, resource orchestration tools, and compute APIs. Develop and maintain low-level services using Python, Go, or compiled systems languages. Collaborate with hardware and global engineering teams, participate in design reviews, debug distributed Linux systems, and mentor junior engineers.

Develop and own compute and GPU server platforms from architecture through global deployment. Responsibilities include schematic and layout reviews, design for manufacturability, new product introduction, board and system bring-up, validation, debugging, firmware and BIOS feature management, technology qualification, and vendor coordination. The role requires hands-on server architecture, board-level design, Linux and scripting expertise, platform validation, and five-day-per-week presence in the Cambridge office.

Designs and maintains scalable AWS infrastructure, Kubernetes environments, Terraform-based IaC, and CI/CD pipelines. Integrates MLOps and DevSecOps practices, automates deployment and system administration, monitors performance and cost, supports incident response, and collaborates with engineering teams to improve platform architecture and reliability.

Designs, develops, deploys, and operates scalable Go and Python microservices in distributed production environments. Responsibilities include API design, Kubernetes deployment, monitoring, scaling, troubleshooting incidents, system architecture, security, testing, code reviews, and continuous improvements to development processes and infrastructure. The role requires end-to-end service ownership, strong Linux and Docker expertise, observability knowledge, and experience with reliability, performance, and CI/CD practices.

Operate and improve AWS production infrastructure, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes workloads, observability, CI/CD, and incident response. The role investigates root causes, strengthens application resilience, automates operational tasks, supports database and performance reliability, maintains documentation, and participates in 24/7 on-call rotations. The engineer owns scoped reliability projects and collaborates with product engineering teams on resilient, secure, and compliant systems.

Defines system requirements and architectures, integrates software onto autonomous vehicles and defense systems, and deploys and validates robotics, sensor, perception, communication, and autonomy systems. The role includes field testing, simulation, troubleshooting, system modeling, cross-functional collaboration, and technical documentation in operationally challenging environments.

Leads enterprise infrastructure engineering and a technical team through data center closure and migration to Azure Government. Oversees servers, storage, networking, backups, cloud operations, governance, security, monitoring, incident response, and operational availability. Develops Azure architectures and landing zones, coordinates cross-functional migration workstreams, manages legacy infrastructure retirement, and drives automation, documentation, compliance, disaster recovery, and continuous improvement.

Designs and implements automation, infrastructure improvements, monitoring, observability, and infrastructure-as-code solutions for mission-critical applications and systems. Manages SLOs and SLIs, supports incident response and root cause analysis, optimizes performance and reliability, and collaborates across software, operations, and security teams in cloud and hybrid-cloud environments.

Develop and maintain PHP, Python, C, and C++ applications supporting real-time data enrichment and sharing. Integrate external capabilities and workflows into internal operations, working across web front ends and back-end processing pipelines. Support OpenStack, private cloud, virtualization, Linux, and Windows environments. Collaborate with developers and research AI engine implementation within the cloud ecosystem.

Provides global infrastructure support for Department of State facilities, managing Windows and Linux servers, virtualization platforms, storage, networking, cloud environments, Oracle appliances, and ESB systems. Responsibilities include platform maintenance, monitoring, performance tuning, backup and disaster recovery, hybrid and multi-cloud transitions, security compliance, audits, and coordination with overseas IT staff and cloud providers.

Provides on-site Linux systems administration for Department of State offices, managing servers, network equipment, workstations, applications, databases, patches, security controls, backups, incident tickets, configuration changes, monitoring, documentation, upgrades, and risk reporting. Requires coordination of hardware and software operations, technical support, and compliance with Department of State policies.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable hybrid multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms at massive scale. Ensure high reliability, integrate open-source observability tools, provide technical direction, operate large Linux environments across cloud and data centers, handle on-call duties, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure software (primarily in Go) to manage VMs across global data centers. Collaborate on product requirements, participate in code reviews, optimize performance and reliability, contribute to architecture decisions, and stay current with industry trends.

Leads an engineering team developing, maintaining, testing, and optimizing custom Linux kernel infrastructure at planetary scale. Responsibilities include feature development, performance tuning, vulnerability management, hardware support, low-level debugging, reliability and security strategy, mentoring, quality standards, and collaboration with technical teams and open-source communities. The role also requires hands-on technical contributions when needed.

Develop and support operational processes, documentation, requirements, system integration, deployment, troubleshooting, and sustainment for fielded mission systems. Collaborate with developers, engineers, mission stakeholders, internal teams, and external partners to maintain system functionality, interoperability, and delivery across distributed mission environments.

Owner/operator of the platform that deploys and runs customer environments. Build and automate infrastructure as code, improve Kubernetes platforms, write infrastructure tests and documentation, enhance observability, reliability, security, and recoverability, and remove manual operational work through automation and pair engineering.

Own infrastructure, deployment, operational tooling, observability, deploy safety, and incident response for latency-sensitive institutional trading systems across cloud and colocated environments. Improve reliability, performance, and developer velocity; reduce single points of failure; establish operational standards and automation; partner with engineering, product, markets, and SRE; and mentor engineers in a 24/7 production environment.

Design, deploy, enhance, and support secure custom government network platforms and cloud services. Manage CI/CD pipelines, build systems, testing frameworks, distributed databases, and storage ecosystems. Lead technical initiatives, code reviews, security patching, Agile SDLC releases, and system performance improvements. Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, and SRE teams to troubleshoot complex issues and deliver resilient application delivery networks.

Develop and maintain Java enterprise applications using Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, Oracle, and MongoDB. Design scalable systems, conduct testing, remediate vulnerabilities, troubleshoot distributed environments, participate in code reviews, document solutions, and mentor junior developers. The role also involves Linux, Git, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud platforms such as OCI or AWS. An active Public Trust clearance and cybersecurity certification are required.

Designs and operates enterprise observability, monitoring, telemetry, and automation solutions across infrastructure, applications, IoT platforms, and cloud environments. Responsibilities include managing Grafana and Instana ecosystems, dashboards, alerts, telemetry pipelines, incidents, RCA, databases, and platform health. Automates provisioning, monitoring deployment, remediation, and operational workflows using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, and Puppet. Supports 24x7 operations, major incidents, ITIL processes, service onboarding, documentation, and cross-functional reliability initiatives.

Tests, validates, and troubleshoots next-generation cloud server hardware for performance, power, reliability, and quality. Develops test scripts, documents results, identifies defects, recommends improvements, and resolves hardware issues across engineering and manufacturing environments. Requires hands-on embedded systems debugging, Linux and scripting experience, and knowledge of server architecture, firmware, operating systems, networking, storage, and hardware acceleration technologies.

Lead the architecture and evolution of edge-to-cloud connectivity for globally deployed humanoid robots. Design highly available, low-latency, secure network systems spanning 5G, private LTE, on-premise deployments, and cloud infrastructure. Engineer high-throughput telemetry and control traffic, hybrid connectivity tunnels, SDN and virtualization solutions, and fleet-wide observability. Serve as the technical authority for network architecture while partnering with cross-functional leaders. Perform advanced packet, Wi-Fi, RF, and network performance analysis.