Top Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

Provide IV&V support through system analysis, software QA, test automation, and data validation. Develop SQL and Python scripts, support ETL/ELT and data engineering workflows, operate in AWS/Linux environments, use GitHub/CLI, and produce technical documentation for government stakeholders.

As a Datacenter System Software Architect at SiFive, you'll design RISC-V Linux systems for datacenters, engage with customers, and optimize performance across software and hardware.

The Software Engineer will develop ML models, software for embedded systems, and user interfaces, ensuring effective hardware integration and performance.

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.

The System Administrator provides technical expertise for system installation, support, and maintenance, ensuring compliance and availability for users while coordinating with government for maintenance activities and upgrades.

Develop, operate, and maintain enterprise applications supporting IMS business areas. Design and implement RESTful services and SOA using Java and Spring Boot, work with cloud (AWS/C2S), relational databases, Linux environments, IDEs, and collaborate across teams to integrate records management and evolving architecture requirements.

The Big Data Systems Engineer will deploy and integrate the CHEETAS project across various DoD Ranges, troubleshooting and resolving deployment issues in collaboration with system administrators and software developers, while ensuring effective communication with stakeholders.

Manage, configure, and maintain enterprise network and connectivity systems. Monitor infrastructure using WhatsUp Gold, Nagios, and ServiceNow; troubleshoot servers, storage, routers, switches, firewalls, and VPNs. Support Windows Server, on-prem storage, AWS/Azure connectivity, and VMware environments. Build and implement network infrastructure, write scripts for monitoring, manage incidents, and maintain network documentation to meet SLAs.

The Senior DevOps Engineer will design and maintain infrastructure for AI Care applications, automate deployment processes, monitor performance, and lead incident responses while mentoring junior colleagues.

Implement, configure, and maintain systems and infrastructure; administer OS and virtualization platforms; automate administration tasks; monitor performance and respond to incidents; partner on system design and roadmap; document configurations and procedures to ensure availability and reliability.

Own and administer the Redwood RunMyJobs platform, including scheduling, workflow orchestration, job dependencies, monitoring, troubleshooting, integrations, configuration, patching, and security. Develop automated batch workflows and support file transfers, APIs, CI/CD, cloud environments, and mainframe systems. Partner with architects, engineers, developers, and IT stakeholders to translate requirements into reliable automation solutions and improve operational processes.

The Software Quality Assurance Engineer will lead development activities, support feature completion, and drive non-functional requirements in a team focused on the 7750 Service Router.

Design production-style DevOps tasks covering CI/CD, containers, orchestration, infrastructure as code, monitoring, and incident response. Develop reproducible reference solutions with setup and validation instructions, evaluate AI-generated outputs, identify failures, provide precise corrections, and maintain high standards for correctness. Share structured feedback to improve future task design. The contract role requires at least 20 hours weekly and professional English proficiency.

Lead QA activities for government-facing web applications: design and execute manual and automated tests, develop test plans/cases, perform API and integration testing, manage defects, integrate tests into CI/CD, validate deployments, mentor junior QA, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure high-quality releases.

Develop high-quality, resilient software across Ubuntu and the open source stack, from Linux systems and firmware to cloud, containers, and desktop applications. Contribute to product roadmaps, user experience, code reviews, issue resolution, security, and enterprise requirements. Collaborate remotely with global engineering teams and the open source community, while building expertise in programming languages and Linux systems. Attend international company sprints twice yearly.

Design, build, and operate central observability platforms. Develop telemetry pipelines for logs, metrics, traces, and events; enforce instrumentation standards; build scalable cloud-native ingestion and storage; optimize cost, performance, retention, and reliability; investigate incidents and drive root-cause analysis; and create dashboards, reports, and service-level monitoring frameworks.

The Back End Engineer will develop and maintain backend services and REST APIs for Healthcare.gov tools, ensuring performance, reliability and security while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable enterprise backend services, microservices, REST APIs, and integration layers. Build cloud-native applications, implement automated testing, support CI/CD, troubleshoot production issues, optimize performance, and contribute to architecture decisions. Review code, mentor junior developers, document APIs and operations, and collaborate with product, architecture, DevOps, QA, and global business teams.

Design, configure, and maintain cloud infrastructure across Azure and AWS. Own IaC (Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell) and CI/CD pipelines, integrate source control and automated testing/security, implement governance and hybrid cloud solutions, deploy generative AI services, monitor performance, support disaster recovery, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure secure, scalable, and compliant cloud platforms.

Designs, deploys, integrates, monitors, maintains, and troubleshoots storage and IT infrastructure, including SAN, NAS, object storage, VMware, networking, backups, and disaster recovery systems. Implements automation, security controls, patches, and system upgrades while maintaining documentation and compliance. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, participates in incident response and recovery planning, supports system rollouts, and mentors junior engineers. Requires occasional after-hours work and on-call availability for critical incidents.

Designs, configures, and maintains IT systems for performance, availability, scalability, and security. Monitors system health, automates administration, troubleshoots complex issues, supports incident response and disaster recovery, ensures compliance, documents configurations, and mentors junior engineers.

Hands-on technical leader and core individual contributor building cloud-native defense/intelligence software. Drive architecture, code reviews, feature delivery, and mentor a small Agile team while implementing DevOps, CI/CD, and robust AWS/EKS-based deployments.

Build and maintain automated infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines using Terraform, Docker, Traefik, and Makefile. Implement observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, OpenTelemetry), backups (pgBackRest/Postgres15), and cloud/Linux administration. Automate deployment and monitoring for AI agent services and support monorepo workflow with SRE and DevSecOps teams.

Develop and maintain SailPoint IdentityIQ solutions supporting enterprise ICAM and IGA capabilities. Build workflows, rules, connectors, forms, provisioning integrations, application onboarding, lifecycle management, certifications, and entitlement governance. Integrate identity platforms with directories, HR systems, and enterprise applications; troubleshoot provisioning and aggregation issues; document technical solutions; and collaborate in Agile teams while supporting security, compliance, and mission readiness.

Join Canonical as a graduate software engineer to write high-quality code across the open source stack, work on Linux system-level and application projects, engage with communities, respond to customer issues, and develop security-aware software while collaborating remotely and attending biannual in-person team sprints.