Systems Engineer - Level II (Linux Engineer) at Computer World Services
Washington
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Jul 1, 2026
Washington
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A Linux engineering role focused on administering a mixed-distribution server fleet across AWS and VMware, maintaining Linux virtual desktops, and enforcing CIS security baselines. Day-to-day work centers on Ansible-driven configuration management, patching and vulnerability remediation via AWS Systems Manager, and infrastructure provisioning with CloudFormation. The role suits someone with production Linux administration experience who is comfortable operating under formal change management and security compliance requirements, and who holds or can obtain a Public Trust clearance.
Senior level · 3+ years · Remote
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 400 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 80–600
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425).
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 (9)
The role title carries no seniority level, so the title states no level; however, the scope (technical leader, enterprise-wide configuration management, security baseline ownership, cross-team collaboration) and the 3+ year production Linux requirement support a Senior classification.
SOC 15-1244 (Systems Administrators) is the primary code because the role's day-to-day work is operating and maintaining an existing Linux fleet — patching, hardening, monitoring, and configuration management — rather than building new software. 15-1252 is noted as a runner-up because the Ansible authoring, CloudFormation templating, and infrastructure-as-code work have a software-development character.
A Public Trust High (Tier 4/BI) background investigation is required and candidates must be US citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents. This is a suitability/background-investigation requirement, not a DoD security clearance, so the clearance requirement is set to None.
A Bachelor's degree is listed under 'Preferred', not 'Required', so the degree requirement is None.
Linux virtual desktop support (2+ years) is listed as a hard requirement; AWS WorkSpaces is the named platform and is captured as a required skill with the years demanded of 2.
Amazon Linux 2023, Ubuntu 22.04+, and RHEL 8/9 are all named as the required distribution environment; each is captured as a separate required skill.
Python, AWS EMR, SLURM, and AWS ParallelCluster appear only under the 'Preferred' section.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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