Linux Infrastructure Engineer

Remote DXB; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work from anywhere in the world

Flexible schedule

Competitive salary

40 paid days off

Access to global offices

Job summary

Remote DXB is seeking an experienced Linux infrastructure engineer to deploy, configure, and maintain bare-metal servers across data centers. You will build and operate clustered environments, including virtualization, storage, GPU compute, and databases, while ensuring reliability and performance.

You will troubleshoot complex issues, tune performance, monitor health, and automate provisioning with Ansible and scripting.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Linux administration and troubleshooting experience.
• Production experience with on-premise, bare-metal infrastructure.
• Good understanding of Linux performance and bottleneck analysis.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting production issues.
• Experience with server provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.
• Experience with infrastructure automation, ideally using Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Deploying, configuring, and maintaining Linux-based bare-metal servers across data centers.
• Building and operating clustered environments, including virtualization, storage, GPU compute, and database clusters.
• Troubleshooting complex Linux, hardware, networking, and cluster-level issues.
• Performance tuning for throughput, latency, stability, and resource utilization.
• Monitoring infrastructure health and performance, identifying bottlenecks, and preventing recurring issues.
• Supporting the full server lifecycle: provisioning, setup, upgrades, and maintenance.
• Improving reliability and predictability during failures, maintenance, and scaling.
• Automating provisioning, configuration, and operational tasks, primarily using Ansible and scripting.

Skills

Linux administration

Troubleshooting

On-prem infrastructure

Performance tuning

Cluster management

Scripting

Tools

Ansible

Job description

Responsibilities

• Deploying, configuring, and maintaining Linux-based bare-metal servers across data centers
• Building and operating clustered environments, including virtualization, storage, GPU compute, and database clusters
• Troubleshooting complex Linux, hardware, networking, and cluster-level issues
• Performance tuning for throughput, latency, stability, and resource utilization
• Monitoring infrastructure health and performance, identifying bottlenecks, and preventing recurring issues
• Supporting the full server lifecycle: provisioning, setup, upgrades, and maintenance
• Improving reliability and predictability during failures, maintenance, and scaling
• Automating provisioning, configuration, and operational tasks, primarily using Ansible and scripting

Requirements

• Strong hands-on Linux administration and troubleshooting experience
• Production experience with on-premise, bare-metal infrastructure
• Good understanding of Linux performance and bottleneck analysis
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting production issues
• Experience with server provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management
• Experience with infrastructure automation, ideally using Ansible

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with hardware bring-up and lifecycle management: BMC/IPMI, firmware, BIOS tuning, and automated OS provisioning (PXE/netboot)
• Experience with virtualization clusters, including live migration and HA
• Experience with distributed storage clusters, including replication, rebalancing, and recovery from disk and node failures

Benefits

• Great challenges with many opportunities to prove yourself
• A welcoming group of highly qualified international professionals
• Cutting-edge hardware and technology
• Work remotely from anywhere in the world
• Access any of our global offices anytime
• Flexible schedule
• 40 paid days off
• Competitive salary