Linux System Engineer

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Summary: Leidos is seeking an experienced Linux Systems Engineer to support a mission-critical enterprise identity and access management system, focusing on cloud initiatives, operational issue mitigation, and system health as a product SME. Highlights: 1. Develop and support cloud initiatives to meet customer needs 2. Mitigate operational issues and identify root causes proactively 3. Manage Linux environments and ensure security compliance Apply Now Description Leidos is seeking an experienced Linux Systems Engineer to provide support to a mission critical enterprise identity and access management system. A successful candide will develop an understanding of the services offered to external organizions, provide lifecycle systems engineering support to development and operions on the program, and use a combinion of technical and functional expertise to recommend solutions to sisfy customer requirements.  Primary Responsibilities Design, develop, and support cloud initiives to support customer driven needs Communice and mitige operional 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 operional availability Responsible for deployment support as a product SME. Provide backfill tasking and troubleshooting script/playbook based automion 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 applicions. Basic Qualificions Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or reled discipline plus 4-6 years of professional experience as a Systems Administror or similar technical role. Proactive self-starter demonstring a positive, willing titude and excellent oral and written communicion skills. Two or more years of experience with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.) Familiar with System Engineering documention creion (network diagrams, da flows, etc.) Experience working with Agile Team Collaborion 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 Qualificions 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 various levels Experience with automed 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 stus 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 step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares. Original Posting: April 16, 2026 For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipes th this job requisition will remain open for least 3 days with an anticiped close de of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting de as listed above. Pay Range: Pay Range $73,450.00 - $132,775.00 The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compension or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, educion, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market da, 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 innovions. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximely $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more informion, visit www.Leidos.com. Pay and Benefits Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. Th's why we craft compension packages th reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compension, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits. Securing Your Da Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-reled informion during any part of the employment applicion process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communice with you through emails th are genered by the Leidos.com automed system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos th asks for payment-reled informion or any other personal informion (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediely by emailing us LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com. If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Commitment to Non-Discriminion All qualified applicants will receive considerion for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, nional origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic informion, pregnancy, family structure, marital stus, ancestry, domestic partner stus, sexual oriention, gender identity or expression, veteran or military stus, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws. Apply Now