Systems Engineer
About The Position
The Linux Systems Engineer operates Linux server platforms supporting customer-facing and internal services. The role administers cloud and hybrid environments, resolves incidents, delivers patching and vulnerability remediation, and improves operational resiliency through monitoring and automation. The engineer partners with Cloud Hosting Operations and application, database, network, and cybersecurity teams to meet availability, performance, security, and compliance requirements. For US candidates, the position requires US citizenship, naturalized citizenship, Green Card Holder, or Permanent Resident status, and the ability to obtain US security clearance. The role also requires the ability to obtain and maintain required FedRAMP clearance.
Requirements
- Ability to obtain and maintain required FedRAMP clearance.
- A degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated experience administering Linux server environments in enterprise production settings.
- Strong experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, or comparable Linux distributions.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across systemd services, filesystems, LVM, storage, processes, and performance analysis.
- Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, SSH, VPN, load balancing, firewalls, and network troubleshooting.
- Experience with Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Python, or comparable automation tools.
- Experience with patch management, vulnerability remediation, system hardening, and audit controls.
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and performance management in a 24x7 environment.
- Hands-on experience supporting AWS, Azure, and Windows Server infrastructure in hybrid cloud environments.
- Knowledge of backup, recovery, high availability, and disaster recovery for Linux workloads.
- Strong communication, documentation, collaboration, and customer service skills.
Nice To Haves
- RHCSA, RHCE, Linux+, or equivalent certification.
Responsibilities
- Administer Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Ubuntu, and supported Linux distributions across production and non-production environments.
- Resolve operating system, performance, storage, network, and service incidents, and participate in root cause analysis to reduce recurrence and mean time to repair.
- Plan, test, and execute operating system patching and security remediation within approved maintenance windows, and validate service health.
- Develop and maintain repeatable configuration and operational workflows using Ansible, scripting, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
- Maintain monitoring, alerting, logging, and capacity controls; identify trends, resolve resource constraints, and improve availability.
- Apply Linux hardening standards, least-privilege access, secure remote administration, audit logging, and encryption controls.
- Support backup, restore, disaster recovery, and high-availability procedures; participate in recovery testing and remediation.
- Administer Linux access, service accounts, SSH key controls, sudo policies, and centralized identity integration.
- Operate and support AWS, Azure, Windows Server, and Linux infrastructure.
- Partner with application, database, network, and cybersecurity teams.
- Maintain runbooks and participate in scheduled maintenance and on-call support.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Life insurance
- 401k plan with match
- Unlimited time away from work in lieu of accrued vacation time
- 10 paid US holidays
- Up to 80 hours of paid sick time
- 17 weeks of paid parental leave, subject to the terms of the applicable policy or program
- Volunteer days and opportunities to participate in Dayforce Cares
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Job Type
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