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Description

Leidos is seeking an experienced Linux Systems Engineer to provide support to a mission critical enterprise identity and access management system. A successful candidate will develop an understanding of the services offered to external organizations, provide lifecycle systems engineering support to development and operations on the program, and use a combination of technical and functional expertise to recommend solutions to satisfy customer requirements. 

Primary Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support cloud initiatives to support customer driven needs

• Communicate and mitigate operational issues as received. Work to proactively identify RCA of baseline issues and establish a feedback loop to development.

• Work as a SME to review user metrics, system health, overall performance checkouts and implements proactive measures to support operational availability

• Responsible for deployment support as a product SME. Provide backfill tasking and troubleshooting script/playbook based automation processes as necessary.

• Manage several environments as a Linux SME providing overall support to the program and working with Enterprise Services to ensure compliance with security services and applications.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 4-6 years of professional experience as a Systems Administrator or similar technical role.

• Proactive self-starter demonstrating a positive, willing attitude and excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Two or more years of experience with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.)

• Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (network diagrams, data flows, etc.)

• Experience working with Agile Team Collaboration tools  such as (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket)

• Strong Linux background and familiarity with best practices of infrastructure management

• Active TS/SCI with CI Poly preferred

Preferred Qualifications

• Oracle COTS product experience (Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Unified Directory, etc.)

• Experience with Kubernetes

• Experience with Elastic tools (ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash)

• Experience with AWS and other cloud vendors.

• Experience with Amazon Web Services technical performance versus cost management

• Experience with cloud-based architectures

• Familiar with cross domain architectures at various levels

• Experience with automated testing and monitoring

• Experience with Engineering Review Boards and Change Management

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.