Senior RHEL Engineer - Onsite, 24x7 Uptime

Patriot, LLC; Maryland; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Patriot, LLC is seeking an accomplished Red Hat Enterprise Linux Administrator to manage and optimize the RHEL infrastructure for a federal client. You will oversee installation, configuration, upgrades, patch management, and security operations to ensure 24x7x365 uptime.

Responsibilities include admin tasks, performance tuning, backups, DR, vulnerability assessments, and DISA STIGs compliance. The role requires on-site work in Maryland with on-call duties and recall readiness.

Qualifications

• 7+ years as a Linux/Red Hat system administrator.
• Daily onsite work with rotation and recall requirements.

Responsibilities

• Administer and optimize RHEL-based server infrastructure (RHEL 7.x/8.x/9.x).
• Perform daily system administration tasks: users, permissions, FS, network.
• Monitor, tune, and troubleshoot to ensure reliability and performance.

Skills

RHEL

System Administration

On-call readiness

Bash/Python scripting

Performance tuning

Tools

Ansible

Tenable

DISA STIGs

HP WebInspect

Job description

Patriot, LLC is seeking an accomplished Red Hat Enterprise Linux Administrator to manage and optimize the RHEL infrastructure for a federal client. You will oversee installation, configuration, upgrades, patch management, and security operations to ensure 24x7x365 uptime.

Responsibilities include admin tasks, performance tuning, backups, DR, vulnerability assessments, and DISA STIGs compliance. The role requires on-site work in Maryland with on-call duties and recall readiness.