Linux Systems Engineer at D2 Technical Services
Springfield, VA
$125,000–$135,000from the description
Jul 16, 2026
Springfield, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Linux Systems Engineer role supporting an Intelligence community customer, focused on administering and engineering enterprise Linux infrastructure within Nutanix hyperconverged environments. Day-to-day work involves building automation with Ansible and scripting, managing Red Hat ecosystem tools, supporting authentication integrations, and developing monitoring solutions. Suited to experienced Linux engineers with hands-on Nutanix administration background and an active TS/SCI clearance.
Senior level · 5+ years · St. Louis, MO-IL · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $90,896 (middle half $75,658–$107,973). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role has two possible work locations — Springfield, VA and St. Louis, MO-IL (CBSA 41180). The CBSA and state fields reflect St. Louis as the primary listed location, but candidates may be based in the Washington, DC metro (Springfield, VA; CBSA 47900) instead.
The SOC classification is a close call. The role is titled 'Linux Systems Engineer' and the bulk of the work is administering and engineering enterprise Linux/Nutanix infrastructure (15-1244), but the explicit requirement to develop automation solutions, write Ansible playbooks, and script in Bash/Python introduces meaningful software-development work (15-1252). 15-1244 was chosen as primary because infrastructure administration and operations are the dominant day-to-day duties.
A Bachelor's degree in a technical field is listed under Required skills but is immediately qualified by 'or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience,' so the degree requirement is set to None.
Grafana and Zabbix appear in both the Required duties narrative and the Desired skills section. Because they are listed under Desired skills as a formal section, they are treated as preferred rather than hard gates.
OAuth/SSO/LDAP similarly appear in both the duties narrative and the Desired skills section; treated as preferred per section placement.
An active TS/SCI clearance is an explicit hard gate; eligibility for a CI Polygraph is additionally noted but not stated as a current requirement.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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