Top Senior Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

The Senior Solutions Engineer leads technical sales cycles, designs enterprise storage solutions, and partners with sales to drive customer outcomes and revenue growth.

Validate server hardware components and new platform designs through power, thermal, performance, firmware, and automation testing. Maintain hardware test infrastructure, document technical findings, coordinate with ODM/OEM partners, and collaborate with software teams on BIOS, kernel, and firmware optimization. The role requires expertise in server architectures, validation methodologies, Linux, Python, Bash, Redfish, IPMI, and industry standards including PCIe, NVMe, and DDR.

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.

Designs, develops, debugs, optimizes, and validates firmware and system software for high-performance IoT platforms across Linux, Android, and real-time operating systems. The role involves embedded programming, automated and unit testing, multi-core architecture debugging, architectural collaboration, cross-disciplinary feature development, and cloud-based validation at scale.

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.

Lead enterprise-scale service mesh implementation across AWS EKS clusters and hundreds of microservices. Establish Kubernetes standards, operate production infrastructure, improve GitOps and CI/CD automation, support PCI DSS compliance, mentor engineers, and drive reliability, observability, capacity planning, incident response, and global platform architecture for a 24/7 SaaS environment.

Operate and automate large-scale data plane services (Cassandra, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, Kafka, etc.), build infrastructure for a devops model, troubleshoot production incidents, and ensure petabyte-scale data is secure, available, and efficiently managed.

Design, deploy, automate, and support large-scale cloud network infrastructure across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Manage firewalls, Kubernetes networking, VPNs, DNS, BGP, monitoring, infrastructure as code, and network performance. Lead technical roadmaps, design reviews, troubleshooting, engineer onboarding, and team direction while participating in on-call support and occasional travel.

Lead SRE efforts for DFIN SaaS: ensure availability, performance, scalability, and automation. Implement monitoring, CI/CD, IaC, container orchestration, AI-enhanced observability, incident response, RCA, and runbook automation while collaborating across engineering teams.

Design and sell cloud object-storage solutions using S3-compatible platforms. Partner with customers and channel partners through the sales cycle, troubleshoot storage, networking, and integration issues, create technical documentation and best practices, and collaborate with Sales, Product, Engineering, and Support to improve customer experience.

Maintain and improve multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure, CI/CD (Argo Workflows/ArgoCD), observability, and networking. Build reliable continuous deployment tooling and onboarding flows, provide internal support, collaborate across Platform Engineering, contribute upstream (open-source/operators), and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to resolve deployment infrastructure issues.

The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will improve system reliability and efficiency, develop standards and tooling, and collaborate with engineering teams to optimize workflows and cloud infrastructure.

Lead the Mapping Engineering team as a Staff Software Engineer, focusing on designing scalable distributed backend systems for autonomous vehicle mapping, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and mentoring engineers.

The Senior Site Reliability Engineer will develop and support distributed storage services, ensuring reliability and operational safety, with a focus on automation and efficiency.

Lead development of AI-assisted reliability tooling, own incident response end-to-end, improve observability and SLO/SLI frameworks, scale single-tenant SaaS operations, mentor engineers, and reduce recurring operational toil through engineering and automation.

Lead and mentor a DevOps team to design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, IaC, container orchestration, monitoring, security controls, disaster recovery, and on-call support to ensure scalable, reliable, and secure systems.

Manage a high-performing software engineering team, driving product roadmap and technical direction, while ensuring quality, performance, and innovation.

Manage, maintain, and improve secure government cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud infrastructure (Azure Gov/Azure GCC High, AWS GovCloud, GCP). Provide 24x7 operational support, incident/change management, advanced troubleshooting, compliance with FedRAMP/NIST/DISA/CIS standards, automation/IaC development, capacity and performance management, and technical guidance to improve architecture, security, and service delivery.

Ensure stability and resilience of Runpod's distributed AI platform by defining SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response, building observability and reliability tooling, automating operational workflows, and partnering with engineering teams to reduce toil and improve production readiness.

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.

Leads DevSecOps and application sustainment for DOL enterprise applications, managing CI/CD pipelines, secure SDLC practices, releases, production operations, vulnerability remediation, automated testing, Tier 3 escalations, root cause analysis, and moderate enhancements across AWS-hosted environments.

Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable GCP infrastructure in a high-security federal environment. Develop infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD automation, manage cloud networking and security, monitor performance, troubleshoot issues, ensure compliance with FedRAMP and NIST standards, and collaborate with engineering, security, and government stakeholders. The role also requires documentation, knowledge sharing, and cloud optimization.

The role requires managing and troubleshooting VMware and Windows operating systems, configuring VDI, and Dell hardware in a government enterprise environment.

Seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to support software product delivery using Agile methodologies, automating build and deployment processes, and enhancing CI/CD practices.

The Sr. Network Engineer will build and manage network infrastructures, respond to outages, and support various IT systems while ensuring optimal performance and compliance.