Remote Linux Engineer – Automation & Cloud Ops

Advania Group; Sydney; Remote; AUD 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

Advania Group is seeking a proactive Linux Engineer to support customer Linux, cloud, and hybrid environments. The role emphasizes automation, incident resolution, and improving observability while delivering strong customer relationships and technical leadership.

Salary up to 120k AUD per year, with superannuation. This remote role allows you to work across the Eastern Coast time zone, without needing to live in Sydney.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Linux administration in enterprise production environments
• Experience providing 2nd and 3rd line technical support
• Experience supporting Java-based applications in production
• Strong experience with Ansible Automation Platform, including playbook development
• Experience working within Azure cloud environments
• Strong troubleshooting skills across systems, applications, middleware and infrastructure
• Experience within managed services environments
• Experience participating in production support and on-call rotations

Responsibilities

• Provide 2nd and 3rd line support for Linux infrastructure and hosted applications
• Take ownership of incidents, service requests, problems, and changes through to resolution
• Support and troubleshoot Java-based applications and middleware platforms
• Perform root cause analysis on complex incidents and recurring issues
• Analyse customer environments to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement
• Carry out Linux patching, upgrades, migrations, and security remediation activities
• Design, develop, and maintain automation solutions to reduce manual effort and improve efficiency
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across customer environments
• Ensure platform stability, high availability, backup, recovery, and overall operational health
• Collaborate with security and operational teams to investigate security events, alerts, and vulnerabilities
• Manage escalations and provide technical leadership during major incidents
• Produce and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and knowledge articles
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to overall team development
• Participate in an out-of-hours on-call rota and major incident response
• Work closely with customers, architects, and operational teams to deliver continuous service improvement

Skills

Linux administration

2nd/3rd line support

Java application support

Ansible Automation Platform

Azure cloud environments

Tools

Ansible

Bash

Python

PowerShell

Job description

Advania Group is seeking a proactive Linux Engineer to support customer Linux, cloud, and hybrid environments. The role emphasizes automation, incident resolution, and improving observability while delivering strong customer relationships and technical leadership.

Salary up to 120k AUD per year, with superannuation. This remote role allows you to work across the Eastern Coast time zone, without needing to live in Sydney.