Senior System Engineer - Bare-Metal & Automation Lead

Exegy; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Exegy seeks an experienced System Engineer for its Managed Services Engineering (MSE) team in St. Louis, MO. You will be the lead for Linux systems, bare-metal provisioning, and infrastructure networking, building automation that turns bare-metal servers into production platforms.

You will own automated OS provisioning workflows, configuration management, and hardware validation tooling, serving as a senior escalation resource for deployment teams.

Qualifications

• 5+ years Enterprise Linux experience (RHEL/Rocky).
• RHCSA or RHCE certification is a strong plus.
• Hands-on Puppet and Ansible configuration management.
• Experience with PXE/iPXE, live boot images, unattended installers.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash for automation and tooling.
• Know-how in Linux networking, routing, VPNs, and security.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and evolve automated provisioning workflows (bare-metal).
• Develop and support provisioning tooling in Python/Bash.
• Administer Linux networking, routing, and security services.
• Validate BOMs and hardware bring-up with out-of-band management.
• Act as escalation point for deployment and operations teams.
• Collaborate with engineering and deployment teams using Git and doc.
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• COMPANY NAME: ExegyKEY POINTS: Linux system engineering, automation, bare-metal provisioning, MSE team

Skills

Linux administration

Python & Bash

Networking & VPN

REST API & JSON/YAML

Git & documentation

Education

RHCSA/RHCE certification

Tools

Puppet

Ansible

Razor/Foreman

PXE/iPXE

Live boot images

iDRAC/IPMI/Redfish

Jira

Telegraf/Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Exegy seeks an experienced System Engineer for its Managed Services Engineering (MSE) team in St. Louis, MO. You will be the lead for Linux systems, bare-metal provisioning, and infrastructure networking, building automation that turns bare-metal servers into production platforms.

You will own automated OS provisioning workflows, configuration management, and hardware validation tooling, serving as a senior escalation resource for deployment teams.