Linux Systems Engineer - DevOps & Kubernetes Specialist

Elenchus Technologies; Emerson (NJ); On-site; USD 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Elenchus Technologies is seeking a Linux-focused Sys Admin/DevOps professional to join the Infrastructure team. You will work across OpenStack, AWS, and VMware, primarily with Linux VMs, learning the product while diving into VM management and DevOps tasks.

The role favors hands-on experience with Linux troubleshooting, Ansible, VM security, and cluster operations using Rancher or kubectl in multi-host environments. Teamwork and independent initiative are valued.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux skills including troubleshooting.
• Ansible experience or exposure.
• Experience managing and securing VMs (STE/STN).
• Active Security + Certification for all members of the infrastructure team.

Responsibilities

• Typical Sys Admin tasks – Server Certificate life cycle, monitoring VM health status, update software on VMs (manually and through YUM repos).
• Monitoring and manage production Linux VMs - stand‑alone VMs and those integrated in a Kubernetes cluster – across multiple hosting platforms.
• Work with customers and development team to support product needs. Including trivial changes (i.e., VM name changes) to significant efforts (i.e. new cluster builds).
• Some Dev Ops tasks including running and maintaining Ansible playbooks to push out changes to VMs and monitoring the Kubernetes clusters through Rancher or kubectl commands to ensure the clusters nodes and pods are healthy and running smooth.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Ansible

VM management

Security+ certification

Tools

YUM

Rancher

kubectl

OpenStack

VMware

Job description

Elenchus Technologies is seeking a Linux-focused Sys Admin/DevOps professional to join the Infrastructure team. You will work across OpenStack, AWS, and VMware, primarily with Linux VMs, learning the product while diving into VM management and DevOps tasks.

The role favors hands-on experience with Linux troubleshooting, Ansible, VM security, and cluster operations using Rancher or kubectl in multi-host environments. Teamwork and independent initiative are valued.