Top Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

Support and operate customer-facing iLottery and loyalty platforms with focus on Kubernetes (on-prem and cloud), GitOps-driven CI/CD (ArgoCD), container management, observability (Graylog, New Relic, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana), infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform), incident response, SLOs, capacity/resiliency planning, security remediation, documentation, and 24x7 on-call support.

Lead an Internal Developer Platform team to build golden-path platform capabilities, CI/CD, GitOps, and infrastructure automation. Drive platform reliability, SLOs, observability, and operational excellence while managing senior and principal engineers, aligning technical strategy, and partnering cross-functionally to improve developer productivity.

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

Design, build, and deliver scalable big data ETL solutions across distributed environments using Spark (PySpark/Scala), Hadoop ecosystem, Databricks, and Azure. Develop and automate ETL workflows, tune Spark jobs, integrate multiple data sources, create tests and technical designs, collaborate with Data Science, QA, and Ops, and troubleshoot data delivery issues under agile processes.

Build and maintain test automation, performance testing and analysis tooling for a distributed database (primarily in Python). Collaborate with stakeholders to create reproducible tests, extend developer tooling, and produce documentation and runbooks for maintainers and developers.

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.

Lead design, build, and maintenance of scalable, secure blockchain participation and custody infrastructure. Improve automation, monitoring, incident response, and observability; debug distributed protocols; inform leadership strategy; scope product opportunities; and support on-call reliability and deployment automation.

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, develop, test, and operate scalable infrastructure and services for Akamai Cloud. Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and similar tools), CI/CD, and observability. Automate reliability improvements, mentor engineers, collaborate on incident response and root-cause remediation, and participate in on-call rotations.

Lead architecture and design for Akamai9s Compute Platform using virtualization and cloud-native technologies. Own system design, align engineering with product, shape roadmaps, mentor teams, and collaborate across product and engineering to deliver scalable, fault-tolerant IaaS and Kubernetes-based services.

Develop and improve systems software and algorithms that steer global Internet traffic. Enhance scalability, reliability, and performance of mapping systems, troubleshoot, measure system effects, and collaborate across teams to deploy and monitor software.

Support and maintain a mission-critical identity and access management system. Design, develop, and support cloud initiatives, manage Linux environments, perform deployments, troubleshoot and automate operational tasks, collaborate with development on RCA, and ensure compliance with enterprise security services.

Lead Amazon Connect contact center implementations and migrations, design contact flows and conversational AI, integrate CRMs and omnichannel channels, build AWS Landing Zones, implement IaC and CI/CD, run architecture workshops, produce technical documentation, and participate in managed-services on-call rotation.

Drive SRE practices for VA enterprise healthcare platforms: automate infrastructure and CI/CD, define SLIs/SLOs, improve observability and reliability, support incident response, and ensure cloud-native, secure, compliant operations in AWS and containerized environments.

Designs, develops, and maintains Drupal-based web applications (front-end and back-end). Implements secure coding, CI/CD with Azure DevOps, Fortify scans, API integrations, multi-environment deployments, accessibility (Section 508), troubleshooting, documentation, and alignment with DevSecOps, Zero Trust, and RMF A&A requirements.

Lead architecture and delivery of enterprise DDI solutions (Infoblox-focused) including migrations, upgrades, re-architecture, and lifecycle engineering. Produce design artifacts, testing and cutover plans, and guide long-term DDI strategy. Support pre-sales with demos, discovery, POCs, solution design, and RFP/RFI responses while partnering with Account Executives to capture new business.

Design, implement, and operate large-scale distributed NoSQL and multi-model database solutions across cloud and hybrid environments. Provide architecture, performance tuning, sharding/partitioning, disaster recovery, monitoring, automation, and migration support. Partner with engineering and business teams to define data strategies, perform security assessments, and lead implementation, troubleshooting, and on-call operations.

Platform Engineer responsible for building and securing cloud-native platform infrastructure. Work includes IaC, Kubernetes cluster build/maintenance (EKS/RKE2), CI/CD and GitOps automation, secure coding and vulnerability remediation, mentoring engineers, and coordinating application-to-platform integrations for DoD/Navy environments.

Design, deploy, and automate on‑prem and cloud infrastructure; manage Kubernetes and core services (databases, monitoring, storage); collaborate with software engineers to build scalable, operable systems; own service lifecycle from design to deployment and refinement.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will manage cloud infrastructure, improve CI/CD pipelines, support AI capabilities, and collaborate with software engineering teams to ensure system reliability and efficiency.

Design and document Azure cloud architecture and cost analyses (with AWS comparisons); create system/network diagrams and VPN-to-VPN design; set up and demonstrate Hadoop and Neo4j POCs using sample data; implement Vormetric data/file encryption in Azure; provide patch management solutions; produce detailed design/configuration documentation for the Xerox Content Analytics team. Requires working knowledge of Linux.

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.

The Production Engineer will design, build and maintain production infrastructure, ensuring reliability, observability, and automation while collaborating with engineering teams on distributed systems.

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.