Sr Linux Administrator

Location: Long Beach, California, United States

Hiring range: $103,000–$155,000 USD annually

Company

hirify.global develops rockets and the Terran R launch vehicle to deliver customer payloads to orbit.

What you will do

• Serve as the primary escalation point for Linux issues across engineering and triage incoming requests.
• Troubleshoot authentication and access, services, storage and filesystems, performance, and remote connectivity across a mixed Linux fleet.
• Provision Linux laptops, workstations, rack-mounted servers, and lab systems end to end.
• Manage access and authentication operations, patching, health checks, backup verification, and capacity management.
• Maintain configuration management code with small, peer-reviewed changes.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on Linux systems administration in production, with ownership of fleet health.
• Experience reading, modifying, and debugging configuration-management automation in an infrastructure-as-code model with peer review.
• Medium-to-advanced troubleshooting across services, networking, storage, authentication, and performance.
• Experience integrating enterprise directory services on Linux, managing credentials and keys, and scripting.
• Ability to triage ambiguous technical reports, act as an escalation point, and manage competing priorities.

Nice to have

• Automated bare-metal and virtual-machine provisioning at scale, including image and template management.
• Precision time synchronization for test and measurement systems.
• Kernel and driver-level experience, including module management, hardware troubleshooting, or performance tuning.
• Experience with containerization, CI/CD, observability, or hardening to a published security baseline.
• Aerospace, manufacturing, or test operations experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with autonomy, ownership, and cross-functional impact across engineering, manufacturing, software, avionics, and corporate teams.
• Receive competitive salary and equity, generous paid time off and sick leave, parental leave, and an annual learning and development stipend.
• Work in an environment emphasizing technical rigor, creativity, cross-training, and professional advancement.