Leidos is looking to fill a Linux Team Lead position to support the National Digital Exploitation & OSINT Center (NDOC). This role requires an individual that has technical experience with administering Linux servers within a within a physical and virtual environment. This role is responsible for interacting with administrators to handle service inquiries and problems. Duties include examining customer problems and implementing appropriate corrective action to initiate a repair or return to service. This role analyzes recurring problems and initiates solutions for preventing reoccurrence and analyzes existing infrastructure for tuning/performance enhancements. This Individuals in this role may be required to perform technical software configuration, rebooting, and other remedial actions on customer servers.
This is a 100% on-site position. All work must be performed at the customer site in Bethesda at the Intelligence Community Campus.
Primary Responsibilities
- Provide technical support, administration, and monitoring of Linux systems within a physical and virtual environment.
- Provide support for the implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of IT systems. Rapidly distinguish isolated user problems from enterprise-wide application/system problems.
- Support operations, maintenance and troubleshooting for end user workstations, to include desktop applications
- Coordinate with customers and stakeholders to collect data, conduct analysis, develop, and implement solutions associated with incident tickets and requirements.
- Seek opportunities for continuous improvement to support effective and efficient operations
- Develop solutions to complex technical issues.
- Provide follow-up reports (technical findings, feedback, resolution steps taken) for Root Cause analysis, engineering technical assessment and process improvement initiatives.
- Support customer requirements in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. Provide on-call support during outages occurring after hours; may involve shift work.
- Update operations and monitoring documentation for 24/7/365 Operations Watch personnel.
- Manage project goals/assignments, oversee major upgrades, minor modifications, and restoration efforts following service degradation and outages.
- Manage work assignments for team, review and assign customer incidents, requirements, and tasks within ServiceNow ITSM ticketing platform.
- Manage work performance for subordinates, provide periodic feedback, and document performance against employee's goals and corporate guidelines.
- Review and approve timesheets for assigned subordinates in compliance with corporate standards.
Basic Qualifications
- Requires a Bachelor's degree and 12+ years of relevant technical experience. Additional years of relevant experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- System security engineering expertise in one or more of the following: system security design process; engineering life cycle; information domain; cross domain solutions; commercial off-the-shelf and government off-the-shelf cryptography; identification; authentication; and authorization; system integration; risk management; intrusion detection; contingency planning; incident handling; configuration control; change management; auditing; certification and accreditation process; principles of IA (confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation, availability, and access control); and security testing
- Possesses and applies expertise on multiple complex work assignments. Assignments may be broad in nature requiring originality and innovation in determining how to accomplish tasks.
- Background in Linux or UNIX server setup, deployment and maintenance
- Strong experience using Red Hat Satellite Server and/or Spacewalk for patching and system management
- Strong experience with hardening Linux environments
- Strong experience with system administration of server operating systems such as Linux (RHEL, Rocky Linux, Oracle Linux, Ubuntu)
- Familiarity with supporting virtual desktops running Microsoft Windows
- Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt, Puppet, Chef
- Experience with Scripting/Automation through Linux Shell scripts, PowerShell, PowerCLI, or other scripting languages
- Experience troubleshooting issues in a growing environment
- Experience with log reviews, incident analysis, and identification of issue trends
- Experience with server patch management methodologies
- Time management skills with the ability to work within an IT Service Management/ticketing system independently
- Ability to triage and properly classify incidents and prioritize work efforts accordingly
- Strong oral and written communications skills
- Experience establishing goals and plans that meet project objectives
- Perform systems requirements analysis, functional analysis, timeline analysis, trade studies, requirements allocation and interface definition, technical management, integration, system testing, and quality assurance.
- Must be able to work independently to develop solutions to technical problems.
- Strong leadership and mentoring skills to guide and improve team skill composition.
- Track record of successfully leading teams, and supporting peers toward improved processes and results.
- Certification relating to Linux such as Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA)
- Candidate must, at a minimum, meet DoDM 8140.03 (previously DoD 8570) - IT System Admin Intermediate certification requirements (Cloud+, GICSP, SSCP, Security+ CE, GSEC, or higher)
Clearance
- Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph required OR active TS/SCI and willingness to get a Poly.
- US Citizenship is required due to the nature of the government contracts we support.
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of AWS or Azure cloud services and the cloud ecosystem.
- Experience operating and maintaining systems in a Windows environment
- Certification relating to VMware (VCA/VCP)
- Experience with SAN or network storage setup and administration
- Experience working in an Agile environment
- Experience with troubleshooting within a security environment
- Experience with backup and restore procedures
Original Posting:June 24, 2026
Pay Range:Pay Range $116,350.00 - $210,325.00
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.
