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About Leidos
Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations.
Leidos currently has
274 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$92,300–$166,850
across 254 roles with salary data.
Senior Linux Engineer
The Senior Linux Engineer joins the Defense Sector team to design and implement Infrastructure as Code while managing servers and related services. This role involves administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 operating systems, performing patch management, and ensuring security hardening across critical applications. The engineer will build and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles, automate deployments using Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, and Packer, and integrate automation into CI/CD pipelines. Key technical requirements include experience with containerization tools like Podman, Docker, Kubernetes, or RedHat OpenShift, as well as virtualization technologies and shell scripting in languages such as Python or Perl. The role also involves managing Satellite/Capsule systems and troubleshooting complex infrastructure issues. This position addresses the challenge of automating large-scale server environments while maintaining strict security compliance and performance monitoring within a high-security defense context.
Stennis Space Center, MS42 days ago
$92,300–$166,850
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Ansible
Red Hat Satellite
High Performance Computing
Bash
Python
Virtualization
Enterprise Storage
Security+ CE
RHCSA
CompTIA Linux+
LPIC-1