Remote Linux Infrastructure & Automation Engineer

Real Work From Anywhere Ltd.; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Flexible hours

Education budget

Vacation days

Private medical insurance

Gym reimbursement

Patent reward

Job summary

CloudLinux is a remote-first company seeking an Infrastructure Operations Engineer (Linux) to join the Infrastructure Team. The role focuses on access management, incident ownership, provisioning, DNS and firewall changes, and automation improvements, with strong emphasis on clear communication in a distributed team.

You will troubleshoot Linux systems, work across bare metal and cloud environments, and contribute to automation and documentation to reduce repetitive work.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience troubleshooting Linux systems in production-like environments.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP, and TLS.
• Hands-on experience with at least one virtualization or cloud environment.
• Ability to own an incident or ticket with evidence gathering and escalation.
• Experience executing standard production changes safely, with rollback.
• Ability to read and adjust existing automation with Bash or Python.
• Clear spoken and written English for asynchronous remote work.

Responsibilities

• Handle onboarding, offboarding, and access-management requests under established procedures.
• Own common Linux and infrastructure requests from triage through resolution or escalation.
• Execute and verify standard host provisioning and production-server changes across bare metal, private cloud, and public cloud environments; upgrade exceptions.
• Troubleshoot DNS and perform approved DNS and domain-management changes.
• Execute approved firewall and OS changes with rollback and post-change verification.
• Monitor infrastructure and respond to alerts and incidents; communicate progress and recovery status.
• Handle Jira requests according to priorities and response times.
• Deploy standard services from approved specifications and runbooks; support design decisions.
• Document recurring procedures for backup coverage and improve onboarding and access reviews through automation.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Networking basics

Virtualization

Incident ownership

Production changes

Automation scripting

English communication

Tools

OpenNebula

KVM

Ansible

Terraform

GitLab CI

Git

Job description

CloudLinux is a remote-first company seeking an Infrastructure Operations Engineer (Linux) to join the Infrastructure Team. The role focuses on access management, incident ownership, provisioning, DNS and firewall changes, and automation improvements, with strong emphasis on clear communication in a distributed team.

You will troubleshoot Linux systems, work across bare metal and cloud environments, and contribute to automation and documentation to reduce repetitive work.