Top Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

The Lead Database Administrator will oversee database architecture, enhance Data Management frameworks, and work with analysts to improve practices and solve issues.

The Lead Database Administrator will oversee database architectures and practices, supporting data analysts, ensuring systems integrity, and enhancing database management.

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.

Supports configuration management and change control across IT environments. Maintains configuration items, system baselines, asset inventories, documentation, and standard operating procedures. Tracks and validates configuration changes, supports releases and deployments, monitors compliance, and identifies unauthorized changes. Collaborates with infrastructure, development, cybersecurity, and project teams to maintain system stability. Assists with audits, reporting, troubleshooting, and environment consistency across Windows and Linux systems.

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.

Integrate, deploy, configure, and troubleshoot a cloud-based emergency communications platform. Responsibilities include VoIP and PBX integration, customer onboarding, customized unified communications solutions, technical documentation, operations-team training, and technical support. The role requires expertise in VoIP protocols, networking, Linux, cloud environments, and highly available real-time communications systems while coordinating with operations, engineering, sales, product, and other stakeholders.

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, 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, develop, operate, and improve Netflix’s internet-scale managed compute infrastructure. The role involves building distributed systems and Kubernetes-based services, balancing customer usability with reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Responsibilities include collaborating with Product and stakeholders, leading cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, mentoring engineers, maintaining operational excellence, improving incident response and on-call practices, and evaluating emerging cloud and compute technologies.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 technical direction for a cloud game: define architecture, hire and mentor engineering teams, oversee prototype-to-live ops execution, integrate Netflix cloud-gaming platform, manage external partners, perform deep engine-layer debugging and performance optimization, and continuously refine processes and pipelines.

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.

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

The Platform Engineer will design and implement scalable compute infrastructure for autonomous vehicle simulation, utilizing cloud platforms and on-premises clusters, along with managing CI/CD pipelines and monitoring systems.

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.