Linux Infra Engineer Consultant (12-18 Mo) - Jersey City

Matlen Silver; Pennington (NJ); On-site; USD 125,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Matlen Silver is seeking a Linux Infrastructure Engineer Consultant to maintain and support core infrastructure for a financial services client. The role emphasizes hands-on troubleshooting across cloud, virtual, and bare-metal environments.

The position covers platform automation, migrations to AWS/Azure, system hardening, and improved support tooling. 12-month contract with potential extension to 18 months, based in Jersey City, NJ, or approved location. This is a W2 role paying $60–63/hr.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience administering enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL, Rocky, CentOS) in production.
• Experience with observability tools (Splunk, Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana) to triage issues.
• Familiar with configuration management (Ansible, Puppet, or Chef) and Git version control.
• Strong networking concepts, virtualization (VMware), cloud platforms, and bare-metal support.
• Excellent communication of technical issues to technical and business stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine server maintenance, Linux patching, kernel upgrades, and standard builds.
• Use logging/monitoring tools to track system health and respond to alerts.
• Support provisioning, apply security updates, assist with data center migrations and EOL hw/sw.
• Ensure server compliance and security standards with infrastructure teams.
• Manage operational tickets and communicate status to LoBs; document resolutions.

Skills

Linux admin

Monitoring tools

Automation scripting

Networking & virtualization

Communication

Tools

Splunk

Nagios

Prometheus

Grafana

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Git

VMware

Job description

Matlen Silver is seeking a Linux Infrastructure Engineer Consultant to maintain and support core infrastructure for a financial services client. The role emphasizes hands-on troubleshooting across cloud, virtual, and bare-metal environments.

The position covers platform automation, migrations to AWS/Azure, system hardening, and improved support tooling. 12-month contract with potential extension to 18 months, based in Jersey City, NJ, or approved location. This is a W2 role paying $60–63/hr.