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Linux Systems Engineer

Company:
Sphinx Solutions Inc
Location:
Herndon, VA
Posted:
March 18, 2026
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Description:

TS/SCI clearance with FSPoly mandatory

Required Education, Experience, & Skills:

Must have a Bachelors degree and 6+ years of relevant experience.

We are looking for a Senior Linux Systems Engineer with a background utilizing the following:

• Linux experience, including Red Hat and its derivatives (RHEL, RockyOS).

• Experience in shell (BASH) scripting and manipulating the Linux command line.

• Experience providing Linux Administration (O&M) support

• Experience providing Linux Engineering and Infrastructure support

• Experience with configuration management software (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CloudFormation)

Duties to Include but not limited to:

• Perform systems engineering and software development in multiple large enterprise server environments (e.g., Linux, Red Hat, and Rocky OS)

• Provide technical guidance in software engineering techniques and automated support tools.

• Develop and maintain scripts and tools to automate Linux system administrative tasks

• Ensure Linux systems are configured to meet security and compliance requirements

• Analyze functional business applications and design specifications for functional activities.

• Prepare required documentation (program-level and user-level)

• Assist in establishing standards for information systems procedures.

• Support the customer in the development and maintenance of systems baseline.

• Assess server loads and work with technical leads to develop tuning recommendations.

• Additional duties, as assigned.

O&M duties include:

• Provide operational pager/phone duty support.

• Complete day-to-day Operations & Maintenance tasks

• Perform operating system software updates, upgrades and patches.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills:

• Experience with the following languages: Python and Bash

• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), CloudFormation, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure

• Experience with cloud computing, including PaaS, IaaS and SaaS

• Experience with CaaS (e.g., Kubernetes and OpenShift)

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