Linux Engineer

Role: Linux Engineer
Location: USA Remote


Job Summary


Administer, secure, automate, and troubleshoot enterprise Linux platforms, ensuring availability, performance, patch compliance, recoverability, and consistent configuration across on-premises and cloud environments.


Key Responsibilities
• Build, configure, patch, upgrade, harden, and support Linux servers and associated platform services.
• Monitor health, capacity, logs, storage, processes, networking, and performance; resolve incidents and recurring problems.
• Manage users, groups, sudo, SSH, packages, repositories, filesystems, services, and scheduled jobs.
• Implement vulnerability remediation, secure baselines, certificate updates, and audit evidence.
• Develop shell, Python, or Ansible automation for provisioning, configuration, validation, and reporting.
• Support backup, recovery, clustering, disaster recovery, and continuity testing.
• Collaborate with application, database, cloud, network, and security teams on releases and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain CMDB accuracy, runbooks, configuration standards, and change records.


Required Qualifications
• 1-3 years administering enterprise Linux, preferably Red Hat Enterprise Linux and/or comparable distributions.
• Strong command-line, shell scripting, systemd, package management, storage, networking, and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with patching, hardening, vulnerability remediation, monitoring, backup, and ITSM processes.
• Working knowledge of Ansible, Python, virtualization, and cloud platforms.
• Ability to support scheduled maintenance and on-call rotations as required.


Preferred Qualifications
• Red Hat, Linux Foundation, CompTIA Linux+, cloud, or automation certification.
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, satellite/repository management, clustering, and regulated environments.