Linux System Administrator

Motion Recruitment; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking an experienced Linux Systems Administrator to support and modernize a large-scale enterprise Red Hat environment underpinning critical customer-facing platforms. The role covers thousands of RHEL servers across hybrid infrastructure, including on-prem VMware and Azure IaaS.

You will drive platform stability, security, automation, and lifecycle management while partnering with Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, SRE, and Applications teams.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience administering large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments (RHEL 7/8/9/10) across thousands of production systems.
• Strong Linux automation using Ansible, Python, Bash, GitHub, and configuration management practices to standardize and scale enterprise operations.
• Experience with hybrid infrastructure running on VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, and Microsoft Azure IaaS, plus Red Hat Satellite and Active Directory integration (SSSD/Kerberos).

Responsibilities

• Hands-On Engineering: 75%.
• Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 25%.

Skills

RHEL administration

Linux automation

Hybrid infrastructure

Tools

VMware vSphere

Nutanix AHV

Microsoft Azure IaaS

Red Hat Satellite

AD integration (SSSD/Kerberos)

ServiceNow

Job description

An established financial services organization is seeking an experienced Linux Systems Administrator to support and modernize a large-scale enterprise Red Hat environment that underpins critical customer-facing platforms. This role is suited to a Linux specialist with deep expertise managing thousands of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers across hybrid infrastructure, including on-premises virtualization and Microsoft Azure.

You’ll play a key role in improving platform stability, security, automation, and lifecycle management while partnering with Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, SRE, and Application teams. If you thrive in complex enterprise environments where Linux is a mission‑critical platform, this is an opportunity to make a significant technical impact.

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive experience administering large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 7/8/9/10) environments, including enterprise patching, upgrades, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management across thousands of production systems.
• Strong Linux automation experience using Red Hat Ansible, Python, Bash, GitHub, and configuration management practices to standardize and scale enterprise operations.
• Proven experience supporting hybrid infrastructure running on VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, and Microsoft Azure IaaS, along with Red Hat Satellite, Active Directory integration (SSSD/Kerberos), ServiceNow, and ITIL service management.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience supporting Linux infrastructure within financial services or other highly regulated environments, with knowledge of PCI DSS, CIS Benchmarks, and NIST security standards.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise security technologies including CyberArk PAS, CyberArk Conjur, Venafi, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Azure Arc, OpenSCAP, or Tripwire.
• Exposure to enterprise observability, DevOps practices, and supporting technologies such as Dynatrace, CheckMK, container platforms, NFS, GlusterFS, and Postfix.

Daily Responsibilities

• Hands-On Engineering: 75%
• Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 25%

You Will Receive The Following Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• Vacation Time

Current Vacancy: Yes

Use of AI in Hiring: No

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Canada on a full-time basis now and in the future.

Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.