Linux Engineer (Remote) | Automation & Cloud Reliability

Ampcus, Inc; Little Rock (AR); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ampcus, Inc. is seeking a Linux Engineer to administer, secure, automate, and troubleshoot enterprise Linux platforms across on-prem and cloud environments.

The role is based in Little Rock, AR, with remote options available to support distributed teams. You will build configurations, monitor health and performance, implement vulnerability remediation, and collaborate with application, database, cloud, network, and security teams to ensure reliable releases and recoverability.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of enterprise Linux admin experience.
• Experience with patching, hardening, vulnerability remediation, monitoring and backup.
• Proficient with Ansible, Python, virtualization, and cloud platforms.
• Willingness to support on-call rotations.

Responsibilities

• Build, configure, patch, upgrade, harden, and support Linux servers and platform services.
• Monitor system health, capacity, logs, storage, processes, networking, and performance; resolve incidents.
• Manage users, groups, sudo, SSH, packages, repositories, filesystems, services, and scheduled jobs.
• Implement vulnerability remediation, secure baselines, certificate updates, and audit evidence.
• Develop shell, Python, or Ansible automation for provisioning, configuration, validation, and reporting.
• Support backup, recovery, clustering, disaster recovery, and continuity testing.
• Collaborate with application, database, cloud, network, and security teams on releases and root-cause analysis.
• Maintain CMDB accuracy, runbooks, configuration standards, and change records.

Skills

Linux administration

Shell scripting

Ansible

Python

Cloud platforms

Tools

RHEL

Ansible

Terraform

Kubernetes

Job description

Ampcus, Inc. is seeking a Linux Engineer to administer, secure, automate, and troubleshoot enterprise Linux platforms across on-prem and cloud environments.

The role is based in Little Rock, AR, with remote options available to support distributed teams. You will build configurations, monitor health and performance, implement vulnerability remediation, and collaborate with application, database, cloud, network, and security teams to ensure reliable releases and recoverability.