Linux Infrastructure Engineer

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

Job Title: Linux Infrastructure Engineer Consultant

Duration: 12 months with extension possible to 18 months

Other Approved Location: Jersey City, NJ

Pay Scale: $60-63/hr W2 (Cannot subcontract or C2C)

Job Description:

We are seeking a skilled Linux Infrastructure Engineer to maintain, monitor, and support our financial services client's core infrastructure platforms. In this role, you will be heavily focused on hands‑on troubleshooting, operational maintenance, and incident resolution across cloud, virtual, and bare‑metal environments. This role will work closely with our client's operations teams to execute on platform automation (Configuration Management and IaC), migrations to cloud (AWS and Azure), harden production systems, and evolve support tooling.

Key Responsibilities

• Operations & Patch Management: Execute routine server maintenance, including Linux OS patching, kernel upgrades, and standard build deployments.
• Monitoring & Observability: Utilize logging and monitoring tools to proactively track system health, analyze log data, and respond to automated performance alerts.
• Infrastructure Maintenance: Support daily environment provisioning, apply required security updates, and assist with data center migrations and End‑of‑Life (EOL) hardware/software replacements.
• Compliance & Technical Support: Partner with wider infrastructure teams to enforce rigorous server compliance, maintain security standards, and troubleshoot non‑compliant systems.
• Ticket & Stakeholder Management: Manage incoming operational tickets, communicate system status updates to various Lines of Business (LoBs), and document resolution procedures.

Required Qualifications

• Linux Administration: Hands‑on experience supporting and administering enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL, Rocky, or CentOS) in a production environment.
• Monitoring Tools: Experience using observability and logging platforms (such as Splunk, Nagios, Prometheus, or Grafana) to triage infrastructure issues.
• Automation: Familiarity with executing configuration management scripts (Ansible, Puppet, or Chef) and using version control systems (Git) to maintain systems.
• Infrastructure Knowledge: Understanding of fundamental networking concepts, virtualized environments (VMware), cloud platforms, and basic bare‑metal hardware support.
• Communication: Ability to clearly communicate technical issues and resolution steps to both technical teams and business stakeholders.

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