About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Linux System Engineer based in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with the Operations team to maintain, scale, and improve production infrastructure
- Install, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot hardware and software across infrastructure environments
- Develop scripts and automation to streamline recurring jobs and operational processes
- Own the security, stability, availability, and uptime of production, staging, and development environments
- Monitor systems and respond to alerts and incidents as part of day-to-day operations
- Participate in an on-call rotation for priority-1 alerts alongside the broader Operations team
- Maintain network, server, and storage assets across cloud environments
- Drive infrastructure upgrades, improvements, and operational process enhancements
- Contribute to application and infrastructure release planning and configuration changes
- Act as a technical point of contact for internal teams, clients, and third-party vendors
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and application issues while communicating technical details clearly to non-technical stakeholders
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in Linux system administration supporting production environments
- Experience with Debian or Debian-based Linux distributions is a plus
- Scripting experience in at least one language, such as Bash, Python, or PHP
- Strong understanding of the LAMP/LEMP stack
- Experience with networking and security concepts
- Experience deploying and debugging complex applications
- Experience with MySQL database administration
- Experience managing mail servers, particularly PowerMTA, including mail deliverability and troubleshooting
- Experience with cloud-based services and virtualization
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across complex infrastructure environments
- Ability to communicate technical issues and solutions clearly to non-technical clients and stakeholders
- Comfortable working collaboratively while taking ownership of technical problems through to resolution
- Proactive mindset with an interest in continuous infrastructure improvement
Conditions
- Remote work opportunity within North America
- Full-time, permanent employment
- Opportunity to work with large-scale, high-availability cloud infrastructure
- Hands-on exposure to AWS services including EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, and CloudFront
- Experience across technologies including LEMP, PowerMTA, pfSense, Zabbix, Grafana, Proxmox, Graylog, Datadog, Edgescan, and ClickHouse
- Collaborative environment with exposure to internal teams, enterprise clients, and external technology partners