DevOps Engineer / Linux Administrator

DevOps Engineer / Linux Administrator

The DevOps Engineer / Linux Administrator supports and enhances enterprise Linux environments through automation, infrastructure management, CI/CD pipeline development, and system administration. This role is responsible for maintaining secure, reliable, and scalable Linux-based platforms while partnering with development, security, and operations teams to improve deployment efficiency, system performance, and operational stability.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize enterprise Linux environments.
• Perform Linux system logging, auditing, patching, and performance tuning across production and non-production systems.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions – including providing scripting – for Linux administration and other applications related processes utilizing Jenkins, and Ansible Core.
• Troubleshoot and manually find and resolve Linux issues.
• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure utilizing knowledge in continuous integration, operational delivery, deployment management (CI/CD), cloud technologies, container orchestration and security.
• Modify existing software and scripts to correct errors, adapt to new infrastructure requirements, and improve performance.
• Analyze user needs and technical requirements to determine the feasibility of design and implementation within time and cost constraints.
• Collaborate with developers, engineers, security teams, and other stakeholders to design systems and define interfaces, capabilities, and performance requirements.
• Build and test end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to ensure the systems are safe against security threats.
• Ability to provide accurate and realistic work effort estimates, commit and deliver results accordingly.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer materials.

Skills Required

• 3+ years of experience implementing, administering, and troubleshooting Linux in an enterprise environment including Linux patching with DNF and YUM.
• Strong experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools. Must have strong working knowledge of Jenkins (groovy), Ansible Core (yaml), GitLab CI/CD, FlexDeploy, or similar technologies.
• Strong experience with Ansible and Jenkins.
• Strong knowledge of DNS/Networking and networking debugging with packet capture.
• Strong scripting knowledge in python, bash, zsh, ksh, csh
• Strong configuration management knowledge and experience.
• Experience working with REST APIs
• Experience working in secure environments.
• Experience in an OCI environment on virtual images.
• Strong verbal, written, organizational, and process documentation skills.

Compensation Ranges

Compensation ranges for ASM Research positions vary depending on multiple factors; including but not limited to, location, skill set, level of education, certifications, client requirements, contract-specific affordability, government clearance and investigation level, and years of experience. The compensation displayed for this role is a general guideline based on these factors and is unique to each role. Monetary compensation is one component of ASM's overall compensation and benefits package for employees.

EEO Requirements

It is the policy of ASM that an individual's race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, gender identity, veteran status, sexual orientation or national origin are not and will not be considered in any personnel or management decisions. We affirm our commitment to these fundamental policies.

All recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting for all job classifications is done without regard to race, color, religion, sex, veteran status, disability, gender identity, or age. All decisions on employment are made to abide by the principle of equal employment.