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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 #MDFSP