# Linux Systems Administrator - Cloud & Distributed Systems, Lead Associate

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 Auto

- **Id**: 1118933
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/peraton-linux-systems-administrator-cloud-distributed-systems-lead-associate>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Laurel, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-22T17:43:55Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T23:00:36Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 46
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4729
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: National Security, Homeland Security

## Company

- **Id**: 722
- **Name**: Peraton
- **Domain**: peraton.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/peraton>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: iCIMS

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 20
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0.05
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 13
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 146000
- **Max**: 234000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 234000

## Technologies

- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: no
- **DHCP** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **Hadoop** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **LDAP** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Puppet** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 46

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-22T17:43:55Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: green card filings: 4; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 13
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.464
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 45
- **Expected fill days**: 13
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:tail, crowd:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 234000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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