Hybrid Linux System Engineer II

Allen Institute; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 113,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Allen Institute is seeking a System Engineer II, Scientific Systems, to manage a Linux-based research environment with hundreds of servers and significant storage. You will participate in the design, deployment, and upgrade of IT infrastructure supporting scientific computing, security monitoring, and patch management.

The role emphasizes automation, collaboration, and on-call readiness, with hybrid work options and a Washington State work location.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of degree and experience.
• At least one year of professional UNIX/Linux system administration experience.
• History of supporting highly available IT services in a 100+ server environment.
• Operational automation skills using shell or Python.
• Associate-level AWS certification (CloudOps Engineer or Solutions Architect)

Responsibilities

• Manage a Linux-based research environment with over 350 servers and workstations and 20 PB of storage.
• Help design, deploy, and upgrade IT infrastructure products and services supporting scientific computing.
• Engage in hardware and software lifecycle management.
• Manage patch deployment and troubleshooting on workstations and servers.
• Participate in the development of system standards, policies, and procedures.
• Manage scientific systems cybersecurity software agents and monitoring systems.
• Monitor system performance and plan for future scaling.
• Manage infrastructure resources in public cloud.

Skills

UNIX/Linux admin

Automation (Shell/Python)

Communication

Collaboration

On-call readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Associate AWS certification (CloudOps Engineer or Solutions Architect)

Tools

OpenStack

VMware

Docker

Kubernetes

Salt

Ansible

Slurm

Isilon

Job description

The Allen Institute is seeking a System Engineer II, Scientific Systems, to manage a Linux-based research environment with hundreds of servers and significant storage. You will participate in the design, deployment, and upgrade of IT infrastructure supporting scientific computing, security monitoring, and patch management.

The role emphasizes automation, collaboration, and on-call readiness, with hybrid work options and a Washington State work location.