Linux Senior Engineer

INTELLICO BERHAD; Selangor; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jora Malaysia seeks an experienced Senior Linux Engineer to join the Infrastructure and Managed Services team in Malaysia. You will design, implement, secure, and maintain Linux environments across physical, virtual, cloud, and container platforms.

The role requires deep hands-on Linux/UNIX expertise, Proxmox virtualization experience, and strong automation skills to ensure high availability and robust disaster recovery capabilities.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on Linux/UNIX administration experience.
• Experience with Proxmox virtualization.
• Strong incident response and root cause analysis.
• Ability to design and maintain mission-critical Linux environments across physical, virtual, cloud, and container platforms.
• Security hardening and access management.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure and maintain Linux/UNIX OS.
• Support production, testing and DR environments.
• Perform OS upgrades, migrations and patching.
• Tune performance and monitor availability.
• Root cause analysis for incidents.
• Configure SSH, NFS, Samba and network services.
• Manage cron jobs and scheduled tasks.
• Hardening according to security best practices.

Skills

Linux

UNIX

Proxmox

Containers

Automation

High availability

Tools

SSH

NFS

Samba

Cron

Job description

Jora Malaysia will close on 9th September 2026. Thank you for being with us, we are cheering you on as you continue your career journey.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Linux Engineer to join our Infrastructure and Managed Services team. The ideal candidate will possess extensive hands‑on experience in Linux and UNIX system administration, enterprise infrastructure support, container technologies, virtualization, automation, and high availability environments.

This role is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, troubleshooting, and maintaining mission-critical Linux environments while supporting customer infrastructures across physical, virtual, cloud, and containerized platforms.

• Install, configure and maintain Linux and UNIX operating systems.
• Familiar with Proxmox Virtualization Platform
• Support enterprise Linux environments including production, testing and disaster recovery.
• Perform operating system upgrades, migrations and patch management.
• Manage system performance tuning and optimization.
• Monitor system availability and proactively resolve issues.
• Perform root cause analysis for system incidents.
• Implement hardening according to security best practices.
• Manage user accounts, permissions and authentication.
• Configure and maintain SSH, SFTP, NFS, Samba and network services.
• Configure and manage scheduled jobs using Cron.
• Familiar with Open Source Applications in Linux