System Engineer 6 San Antonio, TX 7/15/2026

Avid Technology Professionals, LLC; San Antonio (TX); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Avid Technology Professionals, LLC seeks a Senior Linux Systems Administrator in San Antonio to support a malware analysis modernization program. You will manage Linux servers, virtualization, and automation, ensuring secure, scalable infrastructure for mission-critical software development and cyber analysis products.

Candidate will apply Agile, DevOps, and test-driven development practices to deploy and maintain modernized capabilities across on-prem and cloud-like environments.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux systems administration experience in enterprise environments.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Networking troubleshooting

DevOps practices

Agile methodology

Test-driven development

SRE mindset

Infrastructure automation

Tools

RedHat Satellite

RedHat FreeIPA

VMware ESXi

vCenter

Ansible

Cisco networking

Kubernetes (RKE2)

Confluence / Jira

GitLab

Pure Storage / Evergreen

VMware vSAN

Infrastructure monitoring tools

Job description

Overview

Seeking a Senior Linux Systems Administrator with networking experience (in an SE6 LCAT) to support a high priority and highly visible malware analysis modernization program. The role supports a large software development program developing, operating, and maintaining mission critical enterprise capabilities. The program includes development and support for existing mission systems in parallel with efforts to develop and deliver modernized cyber analysis, orchestration, and data enrichment products. The team applies Agile methodology, DevOps principles and test-driven development practices.

Required Skills

• Expert Linux system administrator proficient in troubleshooting server problems, managing virtual and bare‑metal servers, RedHat Satellite, and enforcing STE/STN policies
• Experience managing infrastructure users and hosts using RedHat FreeIPA identity management system
• VMware experience managing ESXi hypervisors and vCenter appliances
• Experience creating and modifying Ansible playbooks for infrastructure automation tasks
• Proficient at architecting and deploying network solutions with Cisco switches and routers
• Strong ability to diagnose and resolve complex connectivity issues, outages, and network bottlenecks
• Skilled at performing Cisco upgrades, applying patches, and optimizing network efficiency
• Extensive experience troubleshooting infrastructure issues
• Experience managing Kubernetes RKE2 clusters
• Familiarity with Atlassian platform (Confluence, Jira) and GitLab
• Strong skills managing Pure Storage/Everpure arrays and VMware vSAN
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring tools
• Bash scripting

Desired Skills

• Experience managing MongoDB database clusters
• Experience managing Trellix FireEye VX, AX, and CM appliances