Senior Systems Engineer (RHEL)

Location: Remote within the United States; an in-person interview may be required during the hiring process.

Salary: USD $94,458–$179,048 annually, with state-specific ranges and a California hiring range of $123,077.70–$170,941.25.

Company

hirify.global provides insurance services and has operated for more than 60 years, focusing on helping people reduce risk and recover from unexpected events.

What you will do

• Design, implement, administer, document, and support infrastructure systems for business and IT applications.
• Diagnose system problems, identify root causes, develop remediation plans, and contribute to compliance reporting and verification.
• Review non-functional application requirements and deliver supporting infrastructure.
• Develop and test scripting, automation, workflow, and other improvements for efficiency, reliability, scalability, and cost effectiveness.
• Lead small IT projects when needed and provide technical guidance and mentoring to less experienced systems engineers.
• Partner professionally with customers, vendors, security, networking, storage, and application teams.

Requirements

• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• At least 5–7 years of systems engineering or related experience in a medium or large organization.
• Full-time attendance of at least 8 hours per day and 40 hours per week.
• Strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration, including systemd, rpm/dnf, SELinux, firewalld, cgroups, journald, and auditd troubleshooting.
• Advanced Bash scripting for administration, automation, monitoring, and operational tooling.
• Linux security hardening and compliance, including FIPS/crypto policy, SSH keys and certificates, sudo, least-privilege service accounts, permissions, CIS/SOX/PCI controls, and CVE remediation tracking.
• Linux storage and performance diagnosis using LVM, filesystems, NFS, iSCSI/FC multipath, /proc, PSI, and I/O, memory, and CPU-steal metrics.
• Experience with virtualization, enterprise networking, Git-based workflows, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, monitoring, logging, and Linux-hosted application platforms.
• Ability to write clear root cause analyses and work incidents through resolution.

Nice to have

• Hands-on Proxmox/KVM experience with clusters, HA, and PBS backups; VMware experience and migration between platforms.
• Experience with Apache, Tomcat, Kafka, Solr, or other messaging and middleware platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote flexibility within the United States for most positions.
• Paid vacation, sick time, company holidays, and volunteer hours.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, and pet insurance.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match and incentive bonus opportunities.
• Education assistance, professional development, promotional opportunities, recognition programs, and wellbeing resources.