Top Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

Define and enforce governance and standards across AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Snowflake platforms. Design and implement cloud platform features, infrastructure as code, automation, monitoring, and reliability improvements. Support application engineering teams with infrastructure design, troubleshooting, security, performance, cost efficiency, backup, and disaster recovery. Configure and automate Windows and Linux systems, servers, storage, networking, Active Directory, Group Policy, and Remote Desktop Services.

Designs, develops, and maintains cloud infrastructure, monitoring tools, CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Kubernetes, and disaster recovery solutions. The role automates operations, contributes to architecture, supports high availability and low latency, and collaborates with cross-functional teams across global time zones.

Design, automate, secure, and operate Kubernetes platforms for a DoD environment. Responsibilities include infrastructure as code, GitOps and CI/CD, Kubernetes networking and RBAC, service mesh, cloud integrations, platform troubleshooting, and reliability improvements. Senior engineers also guide technical decisions and mentor others while remaining hands-on.

Install, configure, maintain, and secure Nokia’s Linux and Windows infrastructure, including physical and virtual servers, clusters, grids, and cloud environments. Monitor system health, performance, logs, metrics, and alerts; troubleshoot hardware and system issues; manage incidents; and implement automation using configuration management and scripting tools. Collaborate with data science and engineering teams on ML/AI workflows, provide Linux administration guidance, and maintain technical documentation.

Manage the full deployment lifecycle for retail locations, coordinating installation, network setup, configurations, and troubleshooting, while building automation and ensuring quality.

Designs and operates Redwood’s internal engineering platform, including cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, GitOps, CI/CD, observability, and developer self-service capabilities. The role improves reliability, security, scalability, incident response, operational readiness, and cloud efficiency through automation and cross-functional collaboration with engineering, architecture, security, data, and MLOps teams.

Graduate software engineers will develop open-source and commercial software across the Linux stack, from firmware, kernels, and drivers to desktop applications, containers, clouds, and Kubernetes. Responsibilities include writing resilient, performant code, contributing to product roadmaps, engaging with users and open-source communities, addressing customer issues, and developing secure software. The role is globally remote with twice-yearly international team sprints and emphasizes mentorship, collaboration, and continuous technical growth.

Develop and maintain React front ends and Java Spring Boot back-end services for a transportation-command modernization program. Responsibilities include building reusable components, integrating REST APIs, modernizing legacy applications, writing automated tests, troubleshooting performance and usability issues, participating in code reviews, supporting CI/CD deployments, and collaborating with analysts, designers, testers, and DevSecOps engineers. The role is fully remote and requires eligibility for a Secret clearance and an active IAT Level II certification.

Provides onsite Linux and Windows systems administration for a federal customer, managing VMware virtualization, servers, storage, backups, replication, patching, monitoring, directory services, and disaster recovery. Supports infrastructure changes, incident response, root cause analysis, documentation, baseline images, and hardware/software deployments across approximately 200 servers. Participates in change boards, customer meetings, procurement research, and a rotating 24x7 on-call schedule. Requires strong virtualization, backup, storage, networking, AWS, Linux, and Windows experience.

Supports enterprise VDI, distributed data systems, and hybrid cloud/on-premises environments for a federal customer. Responsibilities include VMware Horizon administration, Windows and Linux system administration, Tier II/III support, monitoring, troubleshooting, patching, performance tuning, incident response, access management, vulnerability remediation, backup and recovery, documentation, and disaster recovery support. The role requires on-call participation and an active Top Secret clearance, with limited remote work available after onboarding.

Develops and maintains CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, containerized deployments, Kafka and Elastic environments, observability solutions, security controls, certificate automation, and cost optimization. The role troubleshoots infrastructure issues, builds automated tests, supports DoD compliance and STIG implementation, and collaborates with Agile DevOps, security, cloud, and application engineering teams.

Leads Tier 3 administration and recovery of on-premises, virtual, and cloud server environments. Responsibilities include Windows and Linux systems, VMware, AWS services, storage, backup and disaster recovery, databases, identity services, patching, monitoring, hardware support, vendor escalations, documentation, and after-hours critical-incident response. The role is onsite in Washington, D.C., supports 24x7x365 escalation requirements, and requires participation in a government background investigation.

Provides architectural and technical leadership for institutional exchange systems, including matching engines, order management, market data, risk, and unified trading platforms. Leads ultra-low-latency distributed-system design, cross-team technical alignment, reliability standards, incident response, and multi-quarter initiatives. Maintains hands-on engineering contributions while mentoring senior engineers and developing technical leadership across teams.

Owns and optimizes resilient, ultra-low-latency network and physical data-center infrastructure for institutional trading across cloud and on-premises environments. Designs routing, multicast, segmentation, firewall, VPN, telemetry, and automation systems. Leads production changes, incident response, failover testing, maintenance, and on-call support for 24/7 trading platforms. Mentors engineers and partners with SRE, product, and trading-system teams to improve reliability and developer velocity.

Design, develop, test, and sustain secure cross-platform iOS and Android applications and supporting web/back-end systems. Build REST APIs, SQL-backed services, automation scripts, telemetry and operational tools; apply secure coding practices; troubleshoot integrations, networking, and Linux environments; document architecture and SOPs; and collaborate with security, backend, UC, and government stakeholders in a classified DoD/federal environment.

Design, build, and sustain secure mobile and web applications and backend services for a classified federal customer. Develop UIs, REST APIs, SQL-backed services, automation scripts, telemetry/monitoring tools, and diagnostics in Linux environments. Apply secure coding, troubleshoot integrations, document architecture and SOPs, and coordinate with security, network, and government stakeholders in an Agile delivery model.

Owns uptime, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, shared Linux environments, and incident response for live client applications across Azure, AWS, and Cloudflare. Responsibilities include provisioning environments, managing secrets and identities, maintaining monitoring and reliability practices, supporting releases and database migrations, responding to production incidents, and leading post-incident reviews. The role requires strong Azure DevOps, Bicep or Terraform, Linux, AWS, Cloudflare, and observability experience.

Designs, operates, and improves AWS and Azure cloud infrastructure supporting customer-facing higher education products. Owns Kubernetes platforms, infrastructure as code, deployment automation, CI/CD, monitoring, security, reliability, disaster recovery, and cost optimization. Troubleshoots complex infrastructure and application issues, leads incidents, participates in on-call rotations, mentors engineers, contributes to technical standards, and partners across Development and Information Security on modernization and production readiness.

Define multi-generation hardware/software architectures for AI inference silicon, including boot, memory, DMA, scheduling, security, telemetry, and host/device interfaces. Integrate firmware, Linux, runtimes, simulation, and developer tooling; lead architecture reviews; resolve cross-team technical issues; prototype high-risk interfaces; and mentor senior engineers. The role requires deep systems expertise, strong C or C++ skills, and architecture-level ownership across pre-silicon, silicon bring-up, and production software.

Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with strategic customers to design and operate large-scale data infrastructure, troubleshoot distributed systems and networking issues, develop automation and APIs, and translate deployment challenges into product improvements. The role requires deep expertise in storage, Linux internals, high-performance networking, Python and C/C++, plus customer-facing communication and up to 25% travel.

Provides Linux systems administration and operational support across on-premise and AWS/Azure environments. Responsibilities include server provisioning, image creation, patching, monitoring, documentation, application integration, scripting, automation, troubleshooting, vulnerability mitigation, hardening, backup, and storage administration. The role supports approximately 3,500 physical and virtual servers, requires customer interaction and SLA adherence, and includes participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Build and operate low-latency, event-sourced trading infrastructure for Coinbase’s institutional exchange, including matching engines, order management, risk, market data, and funding systems. Own reliability, correctness, incident response, and failover for high-throughput 24/7 production systems. Drive technical designs, collaborate cross-functionally on milestones, and write highly tested performance-critical backend code in Java, C++, or Go.

Lead and grow an infrastructure engineering team while designing, deploying, securing, and maintaining networks, containerized services, Linux systems, workstations, backup systems, and recovery procedures. The role owns foundational architecture, documentation, availability, connectivity support, and secure workflows in a security-sensitive environment. Responsibilities also include hiring, mentoring, incident support, stakeholder collaboration, and administration of custom or potentially air-gapped infrastructure.

Administer and optimize hybrid infrastructure across on-premises data centers and AWS, Azure, and GCP. Manage Windows and Linux systems, VMware virtualization, enterprise storage, backups, disaster recovery, monitoring, patching, security remediation, and workload migrations. Advise leadership on cloud architecture and resource optimization, support Kubernetes and DevOps automation, execute zero-downtime upgrades, and maintain technical documentation. Collaborate with stakeholders using enterprise and government tools while supporting secure, highly available production environments.

Provides senior technical leadership for enterprise systems and telecom architecture. Establishes standards, approves designs, evaluates vendor solutions, develops technology roadmaps and capital plans, oversees testing and operational readiness, and guides complex projects across their lifecycle. Serves as a subject matter expert and liaison among engineering, product, program, capacity, leadership, and vendor teams while ensuring highly available, scalable, secure, and reliable network infrastructure.