Senior Linux Engineer - Kubernetes & DevOps

Insight Global; Woonsocket (RI); On-site; USD 69,000 - 83,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Flexible Spending Account (FSA)

Dependent Care FSA

401k with employer matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a highly skilled Linux Engineer to support design, deployment, integration, and ongoing management of Linux-based infrastructure and containerized platforms. The role emphasizes hands-on Linux systems administration, Kubernetes, Docker, and DevOps practices across edge and cloud environments.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of Linux engineering experience, proficiency with KVM virtualization, OpenShift/OpenStack familiarity, and strong documentation skills.

Qualifications

• Bash/Python scripting - at least intermediate.
• 7+ years Linux configuration/Engineering and scripting.
• Configure/Install/Admin - Debian based (Ubuntu) systems and RHEL.
• Hardware management - firmware, ILO, storage configuration (LVM).
• KVM Hypervisor virtualization.
• Docker (EE & CE), create containers, docker-compose.
• Linux Benchmarking, Performance Testing.
• SystemD and Linux services (NTP, DNS, Squid, NFS, iptables).
• Linux middleware services Apache, MySQL.
• Filesystem setup and management.
• System Security i.e. MSB, security scanning tools (e.g. Qualys), firewall, PKI.
• Working Knowledge of k3S (Kubernetes) clusters deployed in rancher/fleet environments at the edge and in cloud.
• Strong technical documentation skills CI/CD - Jenkins pipeline, GIT.
• Ansible.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and observability tools is a plus.
• Server Capacity Planning
• Experience implementing HA environments
• Experience with other Hypervisor hardware/software (Nutanix, Vmware Esxi)
• Experience in Hybrid Cloud Platforms i.e OpenShift, OpenStack

Skills

Bash/Python scripting

Linux configuration/Engineering

Networking

Documentation

DevOps

CI/CD

System Security

HA environments

Hybrid Cloud

KVM virtualization

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Jenkins

Git

OpenShift

OpenStack

VMware Esxi

Nutanix

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a highly skilled Linux Engineer to support design, deployment, integration, and ongoing management of Linux-based infrastructure and containerized platforms. The role emphasizes hands-on Linux systems administration, Kubernetes, Docker, and DevOps practices across edge and cloud environments.

The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of Linux engineering experience, proficiency with KVM virtualization, OpenShift/OpenStack familiarity, and strong documentation skills.