Senior Linux Systems Engineer – Incident Response Lead

Avenue Technologies and Commodities Inc

Dallas (TX)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Avenue Technologies and Commodities Inc in Dallas is seeking a Tier III Operations Engineer to maintain the availability, performance, and reliability of mission-critical systems. You will provide advanced troubleshooting and incident resolution, coordinating with Operations, Engineering, and vendors to ensure service continuity.

The role requires a active TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance, U.S. citizenship, and willingness to work extended hours on-call.

Qualifications

  • Security+ or CISSP certification required.
  • Strong Linux knowledge and administration skills.
  • Excellent communication for complex topics.
  • Experience troubleshooting APIs and security appliances.
  • Ability to analyze logs, metrics, and diagnostics quickly.
  • Capable of working independently under pressure during incidents.
  • Willingness to work extended hours and on-call.

Responsibilities

  • Lead diagnosis and resolution of complex incidents beyond Tier I/II.
  • Troubleshoot across servers, OS, networking, databases, storage, and apps.
  • Participate in incident response during outages and coordinate recovery.
  • Monitor system health, performance, and capacity; identify issues early.
  • Develop and maintain operating docs, guides, and SOPs.
  • Support maintenance, upgrades, patching, and change management.
  • Collaborate with engineering to improve resiliency and automation.
  • Identify recurring issues and propose long-term improvements.

Skills

Security+ or CISSP
Linux expertise
Strong communication
API troubleshooting
Incident response
Work under pressure

Education

B.S. in STEM

Tools

Grafana
Prometheus
Promtail
Loki
Jira
Confluence

Job description

Avenue Technologies and Commodities Inc in Dallas is seeking a Tier III Operations Engineer to maintain the availability, performance, and reliability of mission-critical systems. You will provide advanced troubleshooting and incident resolution, coordinating with Operations, Engineering, and vendors to ensure service continuity.

The role requires a active TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance, U.S. citizenship, and willingness to work extended hours on-call.

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