Senior Linux Systems Engineer - Hybrid AWS & SRE

Socket.dev; Boonton (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Xtremepush is seeking a Senior Linux System Engineer to join the infrastructure team. You will be responsible for the security, scalability, and reliability of our production, staging, and development environments across AWS and on-premises hybrids.

You will collaborate with Operations, clients, and vendors to communicate complex technical details clearly and drive end-to-end improvements. The role is hybrid and requires strong problem solving and proactive engagement.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Linux system administration in production.
• Scripting in Bash, Python or PHP.
• Strong LAMP/LEMP stack knowledge.
• Networking and security concepts understanding.
• Experience deploying and debugging complex apps.
• MySQL administration experience.
• PowerMTA mail servers and deliverability expertise.
• Cloud services and virtualization experience.
• Confident in explaining technical issues to non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and scale production infrastructure with Operations.
• Install, monitor, and maintain hardware/software across environments.
• Write scripts to automate jobs and processes.
• Own security, stability, and uptime of production, staging, development.
• Monitor systems and respond to alerts daily.
• Participate in on-call rota for P1 alerts.
• Maintain network/server/storage assets across cloud environments.
• Drive ongoing upgrades and improvements to infra and processes.
• Contribute to planning releases and configuration changes.
• Act as technical point of contact for internal teams, clients, and vendors.

Skills

Linux administration

Scripting

Networking

Security concepts

MySQL DBA

Cloud/Virtualisation

Email deliverability (PowerMTA)

Client communication

Application deployment & debugging

Tools

AWS (EC2, RDS, ElastiCache)

pfSense

Zabbix

Grafana

Proxmox

Graylog

Datadog

Edgescan

ClickHouse

Job description

Xtremepush is seeking a Senior Linux System Engineer to join the infrastructure team. You will be responsible for the security, scalability, and reliability of our production, staging, and development environments across AWS and on-premises hybrids.

You will collaborate with Operations, clients, and vendors to communicate complex technical details clearly and drive end-to-end improvements. The role is hybrid and requires strong problem solving and proactive engagement.