Senior Linux Systems Engineer Fleet Automation

Relativity Space; Long Beach (CA); On-site; USD 103,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Generous PTO

Parental leave

Learning stipend

Job summary

Relativity Space is seeking a seasoned Linux Systems Administrator to support IT infrastructure across production and flight operations. You will own triage for Linux issues, manage authentication and services, and provision hosts end-to-end from laptops to data-center servers.

You will improve CM practices and collaborate with engineers to keep systems secure, scalable, and reliable. The role emphasizes hands-on troubleshooting, automation, and working across teams in a fast-moving aerospace

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Linux systems administration in production environments.
• Configuration management experience — reading, modifying, and debugging automation in an infrastructure-as-code model.
• Medium-to-advanced troubleshooting across services, networking, storage, authentication, and performance.

Responsibilities

• Act as the primary escalation point for Linux issues across engineering and own first triage of incoming requests.
• Troubleshoot daily operating reality of a mixed fleet: authentication, access, services, storage, performance, and remote connectivity.
• Provision Linux hosts end-to-end from laptops to rack-mounted servers and lab systems.
• Own access and authentication operations and recurring fleet maintenance: patching, health checks, backup verification, and capacity management.
• Maintain the configuration management codebase with small, reviewed changes to free senior engineers for architecture work.

Skills

Linux systems administration

Configuration management

Troubleshooting

Directory services integration

Scripting

Job description

Relativity Space is seeking a seasoned Linux Systems Administrator to support IT infrastructure across production and flight operations. You will own triage for Linux issues, manage authentication and services, and provision hosts end-to-end from laptops to data-center servers.

You will improve CM practices and collaborate with engineers to keep systems secure, scalable, and reliable. The role emphasizes hands-on troubleshooting, automation, and working across teams in a fast-moving aerospace