Senior Linux Systems Engineer – Hybrid, Ownership

Kforce Inc; Chandler (AZ); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

Kforce Inc. in Chandler, AZ seeks a Mid-Level to Senior Linux Administrator for a hybrid schedule (3-4 days onsite). The role focuses on owning and optimizing a compute-intensive Linux environment, with emphasis on performance, security, automation, and DoD-related requirements.

Semiconductor/engineering backgrounds are valued. You will work with engineering and design teams, supporting HPC-like workloads and enterprise storage.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on Linux systems administration experience.
• Strong experience with RHEL, Rocky Linux, CentOS, or similar enterprise Linux distributions.
• Scripting and automation using Bash, Python, Perl, or similar technologies.
• Understanding of server infrastructure, including CPU, memory, storage, networking, and capacity planning.
• Understanding of Linux security, hardening, patch management, and vulnerability remediation.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise RHEL/Rocky Linux server environments.
• Own Linux system performance, reliability, security, patching, and continuous improvement.
• Monitor CPU, memory, storage, and workloads and perform capacity planning to anticipate future infrastructure needs.
• Perform root-cause analysis for complex Linux and infrastructure issues.
• Support engineers running compute-intensive design and simulation workloads.
• Monitor Linux jobs/processes and troubleshoot workload performance issues.
• Support Linux connectivity to NFS/NAS enterprise storage, including performance, latency, permissions, and I/O troubleshooting.
• Develop Bash, Python, Perl, or similar scripts to automate administration, monitoring, health checks.
• Maintain Linux systems in accordance with cybersecurity and DoD-related security requirements.
• Collaborate across engineering, storage, networking, security, and application teams to resolve infrastructure issues.

Skills

Linux administration

Scripting

Troubleshooting

Capacity planning

Ownership mindset

Security hardening

Tools

NetApp/ONTAP

IBM Spectrum LSF

Slurm

Ansible

Job description

Kforce Inc. in Chandler, AZ seeks a Mid-Level to Senior Linux Administrator for a hybrid schedule (3-4 days onsite). The role focuses on owning and optimizing a compute-intensive Linux environment, with emphasis on performance, security, automation, and DoD-related requirements.

Semiconductor/engineering backgrounds are valued. You will work with engineering and design teams, supporting HPC-like workloads and enterprise storage.