Senior Linux Systems Engineer – CI/CD & Automation

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company; Frankfort (KY); On-site; USD 118,000 - 123,000; Full time

Job summary

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company is seeking a senior Linux engineer to administer, optimize, and automate enterprise Linux environments. You will develop CI/CD pipelines, collaborate with security, and implement robust tooling across development and production systems.

The role requires strong scripting, networking, and REST API experience, plus a track record in secure government-like environments and OCI virtualization.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience implementing, administering, and troubleshooting Linux in an enterprise environment including Linux patching with DNF and YUM.
• Strong experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines using tools. Must have strong working knowledge of Jenkins (groovy), Ansible Core (yaml), GitLab CI/CD, FlexDeploy, or similar technologies.
• Strong experience with Ansible and Jenkins.
• Strong knowledge of DNS/Networking and networking debugging with packet capture.
• Strong scripting knowledge in python, bash, zsh, ksh, csh
• Strong configuration management knowledge and experience.
• Experience working with REST APIs
• Experience working in secure environments.
• Experience in an OCI environment on virtual images.
• Strong verbal, written, organizational, and process documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, troubleshoot, and optimize enterprise Linux environments.
• Perform Linux system logging, auditing, patching, and performance tuning across production and non-production systems.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions – including providing scripting – for Linux administration and other applications related processes utilizing Jenkins, and Asible Core.
• Troubleshoot and manually find and resolve Linux issues.
• Build and test end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to ensure the systems are safe against security threads.
• Modify existing software and scripts to correct errors, adapt to new infrastructure requirements, and improve performance.
• Collaborate with developers, engineers, security teams, and other stakeholders to design systems and define interfaces, capabilities, and performance requirements.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, and knowledge transfer materials.
• Ability to provide accurate and realistic work effort estimates, commit and deliver results accordingly.
• Building and setting up new development tools and infrastructure utilizing knowledge in continuous integration, operational delivery, deployment management (CI/CD), cloud technologies, container orchestration and security.
• Analyze user needs and technical requirements to determine the feasibility of design and implementation within time and cost constraints.

Skills

Linux administration

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Networking basics

REST APIs

Documentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering or related field

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible Core

GitLab CI/CD

FlexDeploy

Job description

ASM Research, An Accenture Federal Services Company is seeking a senior Linux engineer to administer, optimize, and automate enterprise Linux environments. You will develop CI/CD pipelines, collaborate with security, and implement robust tooling across development and production systems.

The role requires strong scripting, networking, and REST API experience, plus a track record in secure government-like environments and OCI virtualization.