Top Senior Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

The PostgreSQL Database Developer will migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL, manage database environments, ensure performance, and monitor systems proactively.

Lead the design, delivery, and production adoption of integrations-platform features, including SDKs, agents, job pipelines, developer tooling, and related services. Drive AI-enabled integration authoring, reliability, scalability, observability, and cross-platform support. Partner across product, platform, and customer teams to translate needs into technical solutions while providing architectural leadership, mentorship, and hands-on guidance across distributed systems and workflow orchestration.

Design and build Go-based control-plane services, CSI drivers, storage integrations, observability tools, and infrastructure automation for Kubernetes AI platforms. Integrate enterprise and scale-out storage, support bare-metal and hybrid provisioning, and deliver declarative Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps workflows. Architect reliable storage solutions for Kubernetes clusters, air-gapped environments, and sovereign infrastructure, including artifact mirrors and PKI/TLS.

Manage and optimize high-bandwidth, low-latency VFX network infrastructure supporting render farms, storage, cloud rendering, artist collaboration, and remote workstations. Configure AWS Deadline Cloud, troubleshoot Maya and Arnold rendering, build asset-transfer and per-show environment systems, optimize Linux and Windows pipelines, and document architecture and procedures. The role requires strong Python and Bash scripting, networking, storage, systems administration, render-farm, and VFX pipeline expertise.

Own and modernize production infrastructure across DigitalOcean, AWS, Cloudflare, and Linux environments. Responsibilities include database migrations to managed services, managed application runtimes, Cloudflare security and delivery, infrastructure inventory, monitoring, backups, disaster recovery, incident response, runbooks, automation, infrastructure as code, and CI/CD. The role requires hands-on production troubleshooting, documentation, AI-assisted operations, risk management, and real on-call availability.

Provide Tier III database administration and O&M support for enterprise applications: monitor and tune SQL Server/MySQL, resolve critical incidents, maintain environments, manage backups/recovery, update documentation, support SDLC/Agile processes, and coordinate security and operational tasks.

Senior individual contributor owning design, implementation, and operation of infrastructure systems. Drive technical direction, write RFCs, lead on-call escalations and post-incident reviews, mentor engineers, eliminate systemic toil, and partner with security, compliance, product, and ops to deliver scalable, deployable ground-station infrastructure.

Provision and deploy network devices, servers, and infrastructure for global POPs using automation (Ansible, Chef, Git). Troubleshoot provisioning issues, collaborate with hardware and operations teams, improve standards and tooling, and support post-deployment validation and handoff to Network Operations.

The Staff Engineer will lead the Systems team, design scalable cloud infrastructure, optimize data pipelines, and ensure platform reliability and security.

Build and maintain end-to-end web applications: design, code, test, debug, and deploy backend APIs and front-end components. Improve legacy systems, create reusable libraries, and support operations and clients while collaborating with product and customers.

Lead design and delivery of self-service platform capabilities: provisioning, deployment, observability, and multi-region networking. Drive RFCs and cross-team alignment, build APIs (primarily in Go), implement Terraform/GitOps flows, improve EKS reliability and Grafana-based SLOs, and reduce operational toil via safe, auditable automation. Own on-call rotation and platform adoption outcomes.

Designs and implements cloud architecture and automation across enclaves, migrates on-prem applications to cloud, applies DevSecOps, ensures security/availability, optimizes cost/performance, develops cloud applications, and leads troubleshooting and documentation efforts.

Design and implement cloud architecture across multiple enclaves, lead migrations to cloud, implement DevSecOps automation and IaC, ensure security, availability, cost optimization, monitoring/alerting, debugging cloud stacks, and produce documentation. Work independently on large-scale data analysis projects and cloud application development using PaaS/IaaS/SaaS/DaaS patterns.

Designs and operates IT services for laboratory environments, including networks, compute, security, private cloud, and SDN platforms. Translates business and IT requirements into secure, standardized architectures and operational processes. Leads deployments, design reviews, documentation, incident gap analysis, automation, and infrastructure optimization. Requires extensive enterprise networking, datacenter, virtualization, Linux, security, and ITIL experience.

Designs and operates laboratory IT services covering compute, networks, security, private and public cloud, and software-defined networking. Translates business requirements into secure, high-performance service offerings; defines architectures, configurations, processes, and operational procedures. Leads implementations, design reviews, documentation, incident analysis, gap remediation, automation, and infrastructure optimization across global laboratory environments.

Senior full‑stack .NET engineer responsible for design through production of secure, scalable web applications. Work includes C#/.NET backend, WPF/WCF components, REST APIs, frontend JS/HTML/CSS, cloud migration, code reviews, testing, and performance/security analysis. Expected to lead architecture, collaborate with teams, and apply SOLID, OOP, and SOA principles.

Develop and maintain Ruby and Rails applications, write Bash scripts, troubleshoot performance and multithreading issues, optimize SQL/MySQL queries, administer Unix/Linux/Solaris servers, and collaborate in Agile teams. Participate in API and SOA development and use source control (SVN/Git).

The Senior Lead Network Engineer will enhance and maintain a large-scale network, design solutions, interface with stakeholders, and improve network infrastructure.

The Systems Administrator builds and maintains server environments, configures network services, and automates tasks through scripting while managing security compliance and system integration.

The Sailpoint Consultant will maintain and support SailPoint IIQ infrastructure, troubleshoot issues, develop scripts, and assist project teams with identity and access solutions.

The ETL Ab Initio Data Integration Engineer will maintain and develop ETL processes, troubleshoot performance issues, and document systems, focusing on Healthcare data integration.

Design, build, and maintain cloud platform services for sensitive federal missions. Operate and monitor air-gapped, secure environments; build CI/CD pipelines without internet; maintain SLOs/SLIs; own runbooks and incident response; support POA&M and Authority to Operate activities; and deliver internal platform enablement while ensuring strict compliance and security.

The Senior ATE Wafer Test Engineer will manage projects with vendors, perform yield analysis, conduct wafer testing, and ensure compliance with manufacturing standards.

Build and design proxy infrastructure from scratch, implement rotation systems, manage IP reputation, optimize for performance, and develop reverse proxy systems for various proxy types.

The Senior Software Engineer will enhance patient experiences by developing modern software for doctor's offices, contributing to product features, and participating in client feedback.