Senior Linux System Engineer

Accountabilities: You’ll take an active role in maintaining and scaling infrastructure while improving reliability, security, automation, and operational processes across production and non-production environments.

• 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

The ideal candidate brings extensive Linux administration experience, strong infrastructure fundamentals, scripting capabilities, and confidence working directly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• 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.

Benefits

• 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.

• Opportunity to work across infrastructure security, automation, networking, monitoring, virtualization, and database administration.

• Collaborative environment with exposure to internal teams, enterprise clients, and external technology partners.

• Opportunity to contribute directly to infrastructure modernization, reliability, and operational improvements.

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