Linux Infrastructure & Platform Engineer (AWS/K8s)

TEKsystems; San Mateo (CA); Hybrid; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) retirement plan

PTO / Vacation

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Linux Infrastructure Operations Engineer to support on-prem, AWS, and Kubernetes (EKS) environments. The role focuses on Linux administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and automation across a hybrid setup in Foster City, CA.

The engineer will act as the first line of support for infrastructure incidents, monitor health, perform OS upgrades, and contribute to platform engineering and automation initiatives using SaltStack or Ansible. AWS and EKS experience is required.

Qualifications

• Experience with Linux administration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools.
• Exposure to platform engineering or site reliability engineering (SRE) practices.

Responsibilities

• Serve as first contact for Linux infrastructure incidents across servers, storage, memory, networking, and performance.
• Monitor dashboards and alerts to identify and resolve issues proactively.
• Troubleshoot Linux systems via logs, diagnostics, and root cause analysis.
• Perform OS upgrades, patching, migrations, and health checks.
• Support large-scale Linux environments (Red Hat and Ubuntu).
• Maintain core services like DNS, Vault, monitoring, and metrics platforms.
• Handle AWS and EKS-related alerts and host/node troubleshooting.
• Follow runbooks and document work; provide status updates.
• Support automation and configuration management initiatives using SaltStack, Ansible, or similar.
• Collaborate with platform engineering to improve reliability.

Skills

Linux administration

Monitoring & troubleshooting

Automation & tooling

Platform Engineering / SRE

Incident response

Tools

SaltStack

Ansible

AWS

Kubernetes / EKS

HashiCorp Vault

Zabbix

Grafana

Grafana Cloud

LogicMonitor

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Linux Infrastructure Operations Engineer to support on-prem, AWS, and Kubernetes (EKS) environments. The role focuses on Linux administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and automation across a hybrid setup in Foster City, CA.

The engineer will act as the first line of support for infrastructure incidents, monitor health, perform OS upgrades, and contribute to platform engineering and automation initiatives using SaltStack or Ansible. AWS and EKS experience is required.