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About the Role
Join Leidos Defense in San Diego to modernize the U.S. Navy's AN/SQQ-89(V) Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) training systems. This role focuses on transitioning hardware-based solutions to a scalable, virtualized Linux training platform using RHEL, KVM, Open vSwitch, Python, and Ansible.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, and maintain virtualized environments supporting AN/SQQ-89(V)15 training capabilities.
- Migrate software and services from Tactical Insertion hardware platforms to virtualized environments using KVM, libvirt, virsh, and VirtIO.
- Build and maintain RHEL 7/8 system images, templates, and repositories.
- Develop automated deployment and configuration solutions using Ansible.
- Create Python utilities and scripts for system administration, testing, monitoring, and data management.
- Configure and maintain Open vSwitch environments supporting multiple networks and high-throughput virtual machine communications.
- Integrate physical and virtual networking within tactical training environments.
- Troubleshoot complex virtualization, Linux, networking, storage, hardware, and application integration issues.
- Support performance tuning and optimization of virtualized systems, networking, storage, and compute resources.
- Support software integration, system verification, validation, and acceptance testing.
- Collaborate with software developers, systems engineers, cybersecurity personnel, and training system stakeholders.
- Support cybersecurity compliance activities, including STIG implementation, vulnerability remediation, and RMF activities.
- Develop and maintain architecture diagrams, deployment guides, standard operating procedures, and automation documentation.
- Support modernization efforts focused on improving the portability, scalability, and maintainability of training environments.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with 4–8 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 2–6 years of relevant experience.
- Experience with Linux systems engineering, virtualization, software development, or platform engineering.
- Experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) environments.
- Strong experience with KVM, libvirt, and virsh.
- Experience implementing and troubleshooting Open vSwitch (OVS).
- Experience with hardware passthrough technologies, including PCIe passthrough, VFIO, SR-IOV, and IOMMU configuration.
- Experience developing infrastructure automation using Ansible.
- Experience developing software and automation tools using Python.
- Strong understanding of Linux networking concepts, including VLANs, bridges, routing, bonding, and virtual switching.
- Experience troubleshooting integration issues across hardware, operating systems, networking, and applications.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security clearance.
Skills
- RHEL
- KVM
- Open vSwitch
- Python
- Ansible
- libvirt
- virsh
- VirtIO
- PCIe passthrough
- VFIO
- SR-IOV
- IOMMU configuration
- Linux networking
- VLANs
- bridges
- routing
- bonding
- virtual switching
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)
- high-performance networking
- low-latency virtualized environments
- GPU passthrough
- FPGA passthrough
- capture card passthrough
- specialized hardware passthrough
- distributed storage
- NFS
- iSCSI
- SAN technologies
- FreeIPA
- LDAP
- Kerberos
- enterprise Linux identity management
- RMF
- STIG implementation
- ACAS
- cybersecurity compliance
Location
- San Diego
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
- 4-8 years relevant experience
- 2-6 years relevant experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $87,100.00 - $157,450.00
About the Company
- Leidos Defense is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team, supporting the U.S. Navy’s AN/SQQ-89(V) Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) systems.
- Our program helps modernize Navy ships by replacing outdated sonar systems with updated AN/SQQ-89(V)15 systems, supporting the installation, logistics, quality checks, and training needed to prepare ship personnel to operate the new systems.
- 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.