Top Senior Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

Leads a cloud engineering team responsible for Redpanda Cloud, BYOC, Serverless, and Agentic Data Plane initiatives. Owns roadmap delivery, operational excellence, incident response, SLOs, and day-two operations while partnering with Product and customer-facing teams. Coaches, develops, hires, and retains engineers; translates product priorities into engineering plans; manages risks and dependencies; and drives reliable, high-quality launches across distributed cloud services.

Designs, deploys, and operates infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365/Entra ID. Builds Terraform modules, Go and Python services, CI/CD pipelines, integrations, and automations. Maintains cloud environments, monitors service health, responds to incidents, troubleshoots networks, manages configuration promotion, and supports AI services. The role also provides mentorship, documentation, process improvement, internal customer support, and infrastructure change management.

Designs and maintains network automation, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, orchestration, and compliance solutions across enterprise and data center environments. Integrates networks with monitoring, CMDB, ITSM, and source-of-truth platforms; develops reusable frameworks, workflows, and libraries; mentors technical teams; supports DevOps, troubleshooting, documentation, and continuous improvement. The role also contributes to technical standards, cross-functional projects, planning sessions, site visits, and vendor engagements.

Designs, deploys, secures, and operates enterprise and service-provider networks across on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments. Manages routing, switching, peering, addressing, firewalls, VPNs, monitoring, automation, capacity planning, and incident response. Maintains documentation and compliance evidence, serves as a technical escalation point, mentors junior engineers, and works directly with customers. The role is remote, includes occasional travel, and requires on-call and after-hours maintenance participation.

Designs, deploys, maintains, and troubleshoots resilient infrastructure supporting Oracle Utilities software for clients. Responsibilities include Linux server configuration, networking, firewalls, VPNs, hardware and software tuning, connectivity troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, process improvement, metrics, client communication, technical support, and on-call incident response. Preferred work includes WebLogic administration, virtualization, backup systems, Oracle Database administration, Active Directory, DNS, and Microsoft Office support. The role is remote within the United States with occasional travel for go-lives, incidents, and data center work.

Design, implement, and support secure, enterprise-scale AWS environments and migrations. Lead architecture, networking, security, data platform, multi-account governance, migration execution, disaster recovery, and operational readiness for federal cloud modernization efforts.

Design, deploy, and maintain ServiceNow platform integrations across multi-cloud and on-prem environments. Implement CI/CD and DevSecOps practices, manage roles/permissions and IdAM integrations, create automated tests and documentation, support Linux/Windows infrastructure, and collaborate with stakeholders and Agile teams to ensure secure, production-ready solutions.

Assess, design and improve AWS/Azure cloud environments for security, cost, networking, storage, serverless and containerized deployments. Provide L2+ incident support, create SOPs, mentor junior staff, support Linux/Windows servers, document architecture, participate in governance/change processes, and join a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Lead the on-vehicle autonomy team to design, build, integrate, and field autonomy software for autonomous surface vessels. Own navigation, planning, control, behaviors, safety logic, and autonomy execution; drive architecture, testing, simulation, HIL, field deployments, and cross-functional integration while mentoring engineers and ensuring mission-ready, maintainable autonomy systems.

Design and operate large-scale GPU infrastructure for distributed AI training, ensuring reliability, performance, and efficient customer partnerships.

Build and operate Nebius's network infrastructure: define SLIs/SLOs, improve site and inter-site reliability, lead incident response and postmortems, develop observability and alerting, automate change workflows, and collaborate with network and platform teams to embed operability.

Design, run, and improve CI/CD systems and developer workflows for a Kubernetes-based polyglot monorepo. Build fast, reliable pipelines, local-to-prod developer paths, observability for builds, and partner with product teams to raise release quality and delivery velocity.

Provide production support for enterprise API Gateway environments including monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, and operational continuity. Perform root cause analysis, backup and recovery, performance tuning, and vulnerability remediation for mission-critical, high-transaction systems.

Designs, implements, administers, and supports critical Linux infrastructure and enterprise systems. Diagnoses system issues, develops remediation plans, supports application infrastructure, and contributes to compliance activities. Builds automation, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code solutions using Linux, cloud, Kubernetes, GitOps, and configuration-management tools. Partners with engineering, security, and operations teams to improve reliability, scalability, security, and deployment efficiency while mentoring junior engineers.

Develop and maintain IoT edge technology, including cloud architecture, device firmware, fleet management, remote connectivity, and software updates. Build scalable systems that receive data from and manage thousands of devices, ensure fleet uptime and quality, and collaborate with customers, field support, manufacturing, and engineering teams. The role requires production software development, AWS and database experience, Linux knowledge, and basic electronics familiarity.

Lead design and implementation of gameplay and engine systems on Linux platforms. Mentor engineers, define technical specs, manage Linux infrastructure, optimize performance and security, integrate art, maintain documentation, support live services and mobile (iOS/Android) ports, and coordinate cross-team standards and tooling.

Lead engineering, modernization, implementation, and support of enterprise API Gateway platforms for a large federal environment. Implement/administer API gateways across hybrid cloud and on-premises, ensure API security (OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, TLS), support REST APIs and enterprise integration, provide production support, and drive infrastructure modernization using container/Kubernetes/OpenShift and CI tools.

Design, build, and operate large-scale distributed web-crawling and data ingestion systems. Improve throughput, reliability, observability, and data quality. Develop backend services for job orchestration and asynchronous workloads, partner with product teams to create data products, and mentor teammates on domain-specific acquisition techniques.

Deploy, upgrade, and maintain High-Speed Data infrastructure supporting DNS, DHCP, DOCSIS provisioning and related platforms. Perform Linux (CentOS/RHEL) administration, scripting/automation (Python, Bash, Ansible, Docker), vendor management, troubleshooting, LLD documentation, project work, training, and on-call support to ensure availability and security of HSD services.

Develop and productize SONiC-based NOS and platform software for Nokia switching products (Broadcom/Marvell) for data center and AI fabrics. Implement and debug networking features, protocols, and management interfaces; collaborate with test, product, and customers to ensure quality and requirements are met.

Design, develop and execute automated and manual tests for router/chassis features (SONiC). Develop Python/Pytest test cases, analyze results, debug with SW/HW/Firmware teams, and drive features to GA readiness.

Provide senior Oracle DBA support for Exadata (RAC) and Data Guard environments, perform performance tuning, manage production and non-prod EDW systems, monitor ASM/OS/storage capacity, analyze AWR reports, and write Unix/Linux shell scripts.

Design, deploy, and automate core infrastructure (on‑prem and cloud) and manage Kubernetes and Linux fleets. Collaborate with engineers to build scalable, operable services and improve lifecycle: testing, CI/CD, deployment, monitoring, and performance.

Ensure reliability, availability, and performance of on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems. Implement monitoring, automated alerting, incident response, automation, chaos engineering, and rollback/recovery. Build dashboards, runbooks, and scripts; analyze capacity and performance; respond to outages and conduct post-incident reviews. Collaborate with development, cloud, and cybersecurity teams and implement security best practices across operations.

Senior software developer responsible for implementing application-layer currency and supportability updates for middleware and microservices — including JDK/runtime upgrades, dependency remediation, certificate and credential updates, OpenShift/Linux compatibility, CI/CD and developer validation, rollback planning, and technical documentation.