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Linux Systems Engineer

SilverEdge
Herndon, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 11/17/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 9/17/2026

Overview

SilverEdge is a premier provider of innovative cyber, software, and intelligence solutions, addressing mission-critical challenges for the Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and beyond. We are dedicated to delivering impactful results to meet mission goals through cutting-edge technology and expertise. We are seeking a Linux Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team. This individual will play a pivotal role in developing innovative and effective solutions for our DoD customers within the IC sector.

 

This program will deliver engineering services for network infrastructure as well as sophisticated enterprise computing infrastructure including end-point devices, data center hosted servers, multi-Cloud services as well as virtualized applications, and storage systems. Enterprise Computing Engineering services include modern application technology including containerized solutions with orchestrated workflow that function both on customer premise, and via remote Cloud services. Network infrastructure engineering services are comprised of core infrastructure, voice and video engineering, field engineering, application management and development for networks, network analytics, firewalls, network access controls and bandwidth service delivery. 

Required Qualifications

A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree with a minimum of eleven (11 ) year’s relevant experience with the following skillsets:
  • Linux including Red Hat and its derivatives (CentOS, 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
 Duties to Include but not limited to:
  • Perform systems engineering and software development in multiple large enterprise server environments (e.g., Linux, Red Hat, CentOS and Rocky OS)
  • Provide technical guidance in software engineering techniques and automated support tools.
  • 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.
  • Provide operational pager/phone duty support.
  • Complete day-to-day Operations & Maintenance tasksPerform operating system software updates, upgrades and patches.
  **Government issued clearance and poly are required**

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Python and Bash
  • Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), CloudFormation, Google Cloud and Microsoft AzureExperience with configuration management software (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, CloudFormation)
  • Experience with cloud computing, including PaaS, IaaS and SaaSExperience with CaaS (e.g., Kubernetes and OpenShift)

About SilverEdge

SilverEdge Government Solutions was founded on the belief that nurturing talent and collaborating closely with our customers enables us to think big and deliver the best for our country. Our mission is to bring top technology talent together to solve the world's most challenging problems while protecting the United States and our allies. SilverEdge Government Solutions, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer and applicants receive lawful consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.

Qualifications:

TS/SCI w/ Poly

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