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Our team of hackers, engineers, makers, and shakers brings deep experience across research, development, deployment, and operations.\nKudu Dynamics is uniquely qualified to anticipate tomorrow’s threats and build the next generation of capabilities.\nWhen you come in for your interview, you’ll see that Kudu is an amazing place to work, where you’ll be surrounded by experts who are ready to teach and learn. Our team has flexible work hours and work-from-home options. When we do work from the offices, we enjoy home-roasted coffee and award-winning workspaces.\nJob Description:\nHello! We’re a small team in a fun company looking for someone to come in and help us build systems that stay reliable when things get complicated.\nWe need a Site Reliability Engineer who has experience building, deploying, automating, and operating complex compute platforms. You’ll work across infrastructure, Linux systems, networking, distributed storage, observability, security, and deployment automation, with a particular emphasis on creating systems that are reproducible, maintainable, resilient, and easy to operate.\nA major part of this role will involve Nix and NixOS. We want someone who appreciates declarative systems, reproducible environments, infrastructure-as-code, and reducing configuration drift. You may be building NixOS-based servers, improving deployment pipelines, developing reusable Nix modules, debugging distributed systems, or making sure a platform can be rebuilt predictably from scratch.\nCritical components of the environment may include high-performance compute, distributed Linux file systems, network design, security-in-depth, ML/AI infrastructure, high-bandwidth data processing, cloud deployment, and fielded systems.\nYou don’t need to be an expert at everything. Whatever part you bite off, though, will be yours to own. This is a great opportunity to apply deep systems expertise while learning adjacent areas.\nOur team needs your help making sure our customers are repeatedly provided with operational insights from a multi-domain data environment-and that the infrastructure producing those insights is dependable, observable, reproducible, and recoverable.\nThese Are the Things You’ll Get to Do:\nOwn the reliability and operation of critical compute and data platforms.\nDesign, deploy, and maintain Linux infrastructure, including NixOS-based systems.\nBuild reproducible system configurations and deployment workflows using Nix and infrastructure-as-code.\nDevelop reusable NixOS modules, packages, flakes, and system configurations.\nImprove platform resilience, fault tolerance, recoverability, and maintainability.\nBuild monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability capabilities that help us understand system behavior before customers notice problems.\nDiagnose difficult failures across Linux, networking, storage, containers, and distributed systems.\nAutomate repetitive operational tasks and eliminate configuration drift.\nDesign and build security and maintainability components for deployed systems.\nHelp define operational standards, deployment practices, upgrade strategies, and disaster-recovery procedures.\nPerform capacity planning and identify performance bottlenecks across compute, storage, and networking.\nOwn solutions spanning CNO, analytics, security, infrastructure, and field deployments.\nLearn new skills and teach the rest of us what you know.\nMinimum Qualifications:\nEnthusiasm for learning new stuff.\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or amazing equivalent skills.\nStrong experience administering and troubleshooting Linux systems.\nExperience with Linux networking, storage, and file systems.\nExperience automating system configuration and deployment.\nExperience with Nix and/or NixOS in production, lab, or significant personal environments.\nPython, Go, Bash, or similar scripting/programming experience of 2+ years.\nAbility to debug complex systems methodically across multiple layers of the stack.\nNice-to-Have Qualifications:\nDeep experience with NixOS, including custom modules, overlays, flakes, packaging, and reproducible deployments.\nExperience operating fleets of Linux systems.\nInfrastructure-as-code experience with Nix, Terraform, Ansible, or similar tooling.\nExperience designing highly available or fault-tolerant systems.\nMonitoring and observability experience with tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry, Elasticsearch, or similar systems.\nIf you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status 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 at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.\nOriginal Posting:\nAugust 14, 2026For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.\n Pay Range:\nPay Range $87,100.00 - $157,450.00The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. 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