Top Linux Jobs in Washington, DC

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.

Build and own scalable full-stack cloud-native services and web frontends on AWS for healthcare imaging workflows. Shape architecture and technical direction, implement automated testing, CI/CD, observability, and security, and ensure compliance with HL7, DICOM, and regulatory requirements. Collaborate with Product, UX, and Clinical teams while mentoring developers and supporting reliable production software.

Designs, develops, tests, deploys, monitors, and operates large-scale distributed cloud services for Azure Arc. Builds software across agents, Kubernetes environments, and globally distributed Azure services using languages such as C# and Go. Responsibilities include automation, debugging, performance optimization, reliability improvements, telemetry, live-site operations, and cross-team collaboration. The role requires participation across the full software development lifecycle and ownership of features from design through production support.

Own production operations and highly available cloud infrastructure for regulated government environments. Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster recovery testing, compliance operationalization, audit readiness, vulnerability management, and continuous monitoring. Build automation, secure CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and compliance tooling across Kubernetes, Linux, containers, and cloud platforms. Partner with security, compliance, and engineering teams to improve reliability, deployment safety, and regulatory sustainment.

Leads and mentors a distributed Agile software team while remaining hands-on in architecture, Java and Spring Boot development, Angular applications, REST APIs, AWS infrastructure, containerization, CI/CD, databases, observability, security, and production troubleshooting. Translates customer requirements into technical solutions, drives engineering best practices, supports capacity planning and performance feedback, and oversees scalable, resilient enterprise applications using AWS, Docker, Terraform/OpenTofu, and modern software development practices.

Design and maintain C++ and Python software for complex cross-platform systems. Develop APIs, messaging interfaces, CI/CD workflows, and automated tests while integrating distributed real-time systems, simulation tools, and third-party hardware and software. Debug system-level issues involving threading, timing, and data flow, contribute to architecture, and collaborate across teams. The role requires active Secret clearance and supports potential progression to TS/SCI clearance.

Manage, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot physical and virtualized data center infrastructure, including servers, storage, networking, hypervisors, and private cloud platforms. Responsibilities include hardware build-outs, architecture testing, capacity planning, change management, security compliance, workflow analysis, documentation, incident escalation, and on-call support. The role requires collaboration with infrastructure and security teams to maintain highly available and resilient systems.

Provide infrastructure support across server, network, operating system, database, monitoring, backup, recovery, deployment, patching, and compliance environments. Responsibilities include configuration management, outage resolution, software upgrades, Linux and Windows administration, MySQL DBA support, disaster recovery exercises, security compliance, documentation, and coordination with development teams, government stakeholders, and subcontractors.

Design, build, and deploy web and database solutions using HTML, JavaScript, and Python within a healthcare context. Implement CI/CD and containerized deployments (OpenShift/Docker), integrate Red Hat Fuse ESB and Apache Camel, and architect AWS-based solutions (EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB). Work in Agile teams, create/consume REST APIs, apply web security practices, and use tools like Jenkins/GitLab, GitHub, SonarQube, and Ansible.

Design, develop, and test full-stack data processing systems and dashboards within an Agile team. Implement enhancements across UI, server, cloud, database, and DevOps layers using Java/JEE, Spring Boot/Quarkus, integration/messaging systems, and AWS. Participate in code reviews, architecture compliance, documentation, testing, metrics, and risk management to support program requirements and analytics.

Designs, deploys, operates, and scales GPU/CPU infrastructure supporting Top Secret national security missions. Responsibilities include managing bare-metal and virtualized GPU platforms, building large-scale AI clusters, automating Kubernetes and operating-system deployments, operating databases and distributed storage, and improving service reliability, monitoring, and lifecycle management. The role collaborates closely with AI engineers and requires strong infrastructure, software development, networking, and systems expertise.

Operate and scale Kong’s global multi-region SaaS platform across AWS, GCP, and Azure. Build Kubernetes infrastructure, Terraform-based automation, Helm and ArgoCD deployment workflows, CI/CD pipelines, observability systems, and highly available data layers. Improve Kong Gateway and Mesh environments, reliability, scalability, security, disaster recovery, and cost efficiency. Participate in 24/7 on-call, incident response, SLO tracking, postmortems, and operational improvement initiatives.

Design, deploy, operate, and scale GPU/CPU infrastructure for Starshield’s national security missions. Manage Kubernetes and AI clusters, bare-metal and virtualized GPU platforms, operating systems, databases, monitoring, and distributed storage. Develop infrastructure automation, improve service reliability and performance, collaborate with AI engineers and customers, and lead technical excellence while mentoring junior engineers.

Manage and support a self-hosted ServiceNow platform and CMDB environment. Responsibilities include platform administration, maintaining configuration management data, collaborating with development teams to deploy updates, troubleshooting platform issues, and driving improvements across enterprise IT operations. The role requires knowledge of Linux, Windows Server, ServiceNow administration and CMDB, Java, and JavaScript.

Designs and operates cloud and internal infrastructure, identity and access management, SaaS platforms, and automation systems. The role improves reliability, security, compliance, and operational efficiency through IAM governance, infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, vulnerability management, patching, system hardening, monitoring, and troubleshooting. It also partners with Security, HR, and Engineering on onboarding, integrations, and audit readiness.

Performs customer-facing and internal software upgrades, patches, deployments, rollback support, validation, troubleshooting, and cloud migrations. The role also maintains documentation, supports CI/CD tooling and automation, coordinates upgrade schedules, applies security patches, and collaborates with cross-functional teams. This entry-level position develops cloud release engineering skills through mentorship and hands-on work.

Develop and support Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365, collaborate across product development, and help plan and implement product features. The role requires strong C# expertise, knowledge of algorithms and data structures, relational database development, and public cloud experience. Familiarity with Windows, Linux, Exchange, SharePoint, Office 365, event-driven systems, and commercial software products is advantageous.

Develop and deploy automated system tests for distributed systems, collaborate with developers and QA teams, create test plans, verify requirements and test coverage, improve testing methodologies, and solve large-scale software automation and verification problems using coding and software development.

Own the reliability, availability, security, and observability of Tradeweb’s global AWS platform. Responsibilities include infrastructure-as-code automation, monitoring, SLO development, incident triage and resolution, performance analysis, architecture collaboration, and regular on-call support. The role requires cloud-native engineering, scripting, networking, Linux/Unix, security, and reliability expertise while contributing to an Agile engineering organization.

Own and improve Glydways’ Bazel monorepo infrastructure across C++, Python, and Go. Responsibilities include implementing remote caching and remote build execution, optimizing build and test performance, maintaining toolchains and dependencies, supporting embedded cross-compilation, improving CI/CD workflows with AWS and Buildkite, developing developer automation, monitoring build health, and participating in on-call support.

Performs site reliability engineering for large-scale cloud infrastructure, focusing on application and network performance, reliability, security, scalability, and capacity. Deploys highly available systems, automates cloud service deployments, monitors and troubleshoots services, analyzes logs and events, maintains SLAs, and resolves infrastructure issues. The role requires expertise in microservices, container orchestration, cloud migration, deployment automation, and multiple DevOps technologies.

Analyzes and resolves availability and performance issues in large-scale production and lab environments. Develops automation, monitoring, alerting, log analysis, debugging tools, and systems programming solutions. Collaborates with software development and engineering teams on CI/CD, platform architecture, incident resolution, and operational best practices within an agile SDLC.

Develop and operate Akamai’s Linux-based cloud infrastructure, including bare-metal and virtual machine platforms, kernels, operating systems, and KVM/QEMU virtualization. Build software, automation, observability, and infrastructure enhancements at scale; troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues; collaborate across engineering and operations; mentor team members; and participate in on-call service restoration.

Own production reliability and infrastructure operations for the GrayKey cloud platform. Responsibilities include AWS monitoring, incident response, vulnerability remediation, networking, IAM and Okta administration, EKS and Argo CD operations, backups, recovery testing, Terraform changes, cost optimization, automation, documentation, and compliance support. The role requires independent work during Pacific and Mountain time-zone hours and involves less than 5% travel.

Build and maintain edge software that controls pharmacy automation hardware. Responsibilities include hardware communication over CAN, serial, USB, and Ethernet; fill-sequencing state machines; versioned contracts with microcontrollers and vision systems; and fail-closed behavior. The role requires production C, C++, or Rust on Linux, hardware-bus debugging, real-time orchestration, and embedded-device integration. Preferred experience includes industrial ARM/x86 platforms, field diagnostics, embedded Linux, NVIDIA Jetson, and robotics or medical devices.