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Linux System Administrator with Security Clearance

Aqua ITChantilly, VA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 13 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Temporary/Casual
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Linux System Administrator
Location: Chantilly, VA
Clearance: TS-SCI
Certifications: Current Security+ before start Responsibilities:
• Design, develop, and support cloud initiatives to support customer driven needs
• Responsible for user account management and infrastructure requirements.
• Maintain program owned applications in support of a collaborative environment (JIRA, Atlassian, BitBucket, RocketChat)
• Responsible for infrastructure patching and OS baseline hardening
• Manage several environments as a Linux System Administrator providing overall support to the program and working with Enterprise Services to ensure compliance with security services and applications. Requirements/Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related discipline plus 2-4 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.
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (S3 Buckets, EC2, Reserved Instances, etc.)
• Familiar with System Engineering documentation creation (VDDs, network diagrams, data flows, etc.)
• Experience working with Agile Team Collaboration tools such as (Jira, Confluence, RocketChat)
• Linux background and familiarity with best practices of infrastructure management Preferred Qualifications:
• 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

Skills

AWS
Agile
Confluence
Jira

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