Linux System Administrator/ Business Operations

Kelly Services; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

Vacation Time

Job summary

Kelly Services is seeking a Linux Systems Administrator to improve reliability, security, and modernization of a large-scale Linux platform. The role is based in Etobicoke, Toronto, with hybrid environments spanning on-prem and Azure cloud.

The ideal candidate will maintain and enhance RHEL servers, participate in automation, privileged access management, and collaboration across multiple teams to deliver scalable, compliant Linux services in a regulated environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with large-scale RHEL environments (patching, upgrades, hardening, lifecycle management).
• Strong automation using Ansible, Python, Bash to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Experience in hybrid infra (VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, Azure) and enterprise identity services.
• CyberArk privileged access management and credential rotation experience.
• Experience with ServiceNow for incident/change/problem/request management in ITIL environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize thousands of RHEL servers across datacenters and cloud hybrid platforms.
• Develop and deploy automation to improve operational efficiency and consistency.
• Collaborate with Infra, Cloud, Cybersecurity, SRE, and App teams to deliver scalable Linux services.
• Support privileged access workflows and security initiatives with CyberArk solutions.
• Engage in platform hardening, monitoring, and compliance activities.

Skills

RHEL administration

Automation & Scripting

Hybrid cloud infra

CyberArk privileged access

ServiceNow

Tools

ServiceNow

VMware vSphere

Nutanix AHV

Azure

Job description

$90000 - $110000

An established financial services organization is seeking a Linux Systems Administrator to help drive the reliability, security, and modernization of a large-scale enterprise Linux platform supporting mission-critical customer and business operations. Based out of the organization's Etobicoke office, this position is ideal for a Linux professional who enjoys working across complex hybrid environments spanning enterprise datacenters, virtualization platforms, and Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure.

In this role, you'll be responsible for maintaining and enhancing thousands of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers while contributing to automation, platform engineering, privileged access management, operational excellence, and security initiatives. You'll partner closely with Infrastructure, Cloud, Cybersecurity, SRE, and Application teams to build scalable, resilient, and compliant Linux services that support a fast-paced, highly regulated environment.

If you're passionate about enterprise Linux, infrastructure automation, and working with modern platform technologies at scale, this role offers the opportunity to make a significant impact within a highly visible and technically sophisticated environment.

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive hands-on experience administering large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 7/8/9) environments, including patching, upgrades, troubleshooting, performance tuning, hardening, and lifecycle management across hundreds to thousands of production servers.

• Strong automation and scripting experience leveraging Ansible, Python, Bash, GitHub, and Infrastructure as Code principles to improve operational efficiency, consistency, and platform scalability.

• Proven experience supporting hybrid infrastructure environments across VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, and Microsoft Azure, including integration with enterprise identity and authentication services such as Active Directory, SSSD, and Kerberos.

• Hands-on experience working with ServiceNow for incident, change, problem, and request management within a structured ITIL-driven operating model.

• Demonstrated experience administering and supporting CyberArk solutions, including privileged account management, credential rotation, access governance, and secure privileged access workflows.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Experience supporting Linux infrastructure within financial services, banking, insurance, or other highly regulated environments, with exposure to security and compliance frameworks such as PCI DSS, CIS Benchmarks, and NIST.

• Additional experience with enterprise security technologies such as CyberArk PAS, CyberArk Conjur, Venafi, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Azure Arc, OpenSCAP, Tripwire, or similar security and compliance tooling.

• Hands-on experience with Red Hat Satellite, enterprise patch orchestration, system compliance reporting, and large-scale operating system lifecycle management.

• Exposure to enterprise monitoring and observability platforms including Dynatrace, CheckMK, Splunk, or related operational monitoring solutions.

• Experience supporting containerized workloads, DevOps tooling, NFS, enterprise storage platforms, and mission-critical application environments.

ou 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.

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Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.