Linux Systems Administrator - Cloud & Distributed Systems, Lead Associate

Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud & Distributed Systems Engineer to support mission-critical, cloud-based data repositories serving users within a dynamic Intelligence Community environment

This role operates in a dynamic, high-tempo operational environment where requirements evolve rapidly in response to global events. The selected candidate will administer and engineer large-scale Hadoop and Accumulo clusters, ensure system reliability and security, and collaborate across infrastructure, networking, and security domains to maintain continuous mission availability.

This is not a traditional system administration role — it is a reliability-focused distributed systems engineering position operating on a scale. This position will provide after-hours on call/call in support.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize enterprise Linux systems across large distributed clusters (60+ nodes, multi-rack deployments)

• Monitor system health, performance, and reliability; troubleshoot complex hardware, software, network, and cloud issues

• Support and tune Hadoop (HDFS/YARN) and Accumulo environments

• Engineer monitoring, observability, and alerting solutions

• Automate infrastructure using scripting and Infrastructure-as-Code

• Patch, harden, and secure systems in compliance with security standards

• Manage LDAP-based user accounts and core Linux services (DHCP, DNS)

• Support Kubernetes-based containerized workloads

• Participate in architecture discussions and cross-team engineering efforts

• Contribute to incident response and root cause analysis

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Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of Linux systems administration experience