Linux Systems Administrator

Location: Remote within the United States; must reside and work within the United States. U.S. citizenship is required. Availability for a shared on-call rotation and scheduled maintenance is required.

Base salary: $120,000–$150,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global helps enterprises and government organizations reduce software supply chain risk through hardened container images, runtime-based attack surface reduction, and automated vulnerability remediation.

What you will do

• Build, configure, administer, harden, and maintain production Linux systems, primarily RHEL/Rocky Linux and Ubuntu.
• Manage system services, packages, users, permissions, authentication, access controls, operating system lifecycles, patching, upgrades, configuration drift, physical servers, and virtualized environments.
• Diagnose production issues involving processes, resources, filesystems, systemd, networking, service dependencies, boot problems, package conflicts, and performance.
• Write and maintain Bash and Python automation plus Ansible roles and playbooks for provisioning, diagnostics, remediation, reporting, and routine operations.
• Apply security baselines and least-privilege access, improve monitoring and alerting, maintain backups, test recovery procedures, and execute documented changes with rollback plans.
• Maintain runbooks and configuration records, coordinate with engineering teams and vendors, participate in incident reviews, and join the shared on-call rotation and scheduled maintenance windows.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on experience administering Linux in production environments, including recent responsibility for systems operations and troubleshooting.
• Deep practical knowledge of Linux processes, services, permissions, package management, filesystems, logging, and resource management.
• Strong experience with RHEL/Rocky Linux and Ubuntu.
• Strong Bash scripting skills, including independently writing, troubleshooting, and maintaining production shell scripts.
• Practical Python skills for systems automation and operational tooling.
• Hands-on experience writing and maintaining Ansible roles and playbooks, or substantial experience with a comparable configuration management platform.
• Strong networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, subnetting, routing, DNS, firewalls, SSH, and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting virtualization, storage, monitoring, and backup and recovery.
• Demonstrated personal ownership of complex technical problem resolution and corrective actions, with sound judgment regarding change risk, testing, rollback, and escalation.
• Clear communication and the ability to work independently within a remote team. Recent direct ownership of Linux administration, scripting, and troubleshooting is essential for candidates currently focused primarily on people management.

Nice to have

• Linux hardware diagnostics involving PCIe devices, drivers, firmware, and kernel logs.
• GPU servers, NVIDIA drivers, CUDA environments, or infrastructure supporting AI workloads.
• Virtualization technologies such as KVM, Proxmox, VMware, or LXC.
• SAN/NAS storage, logical volume management, and multipathing.
• Remote server management through IPMI, iDRAC, iLO, or similar tools.
• Docker, containers, or Kubernetes.
• Infrastructure supporting SOC 2 or ISO 27001 controls.
• Physical data center operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work within the United States.
• Equity participation.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• 401(k) with company contribution.
• Paid time off.
• Shared on-call rotation and scheduled maintenance responsibilities.