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Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Job in Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, 60601, USA
Listing for: rapidfortinc
Full Time position Listed on 2026-11-14
Job specializations:
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 125000 - 165000 USD Yearly USD 125000.00 165000.00 YEAR

Job Description & How to Apply Below

Role overview

Own the day-to-day reliability, security, and upkeep of a broad infrastructure estate as a senior individual contributor. The scope runs from Linux servers, storage, and virtualization through networks, cloud resources, and self-hosted development systems; the role also leads incident response and operational improvements.

Responsibilities
  • Build, configure, harden, and maintain Linux systems, including access controls, services, packages, and operating-system lifecycle updates.
  • Operate physical servers, virtual machines, and containers; manage storage, capacity, hardware issues, and configuration consistency.
  • Run and troubleshoot network services such as routing, firewalls, DHCP, DNS, and connectivity between data centers, cloud resources, and remote staff.
  • Manage cloud resources and self-hosted engineering tools, including source control, CI runners, build machines, and package mirrors.
  • Diagnose production issues using logs, metrics, and command-line tools; lead incident response, document findings, and complete follow-up fixes.
  • Automate provisioning and routine operations with scripts and configuration management, keeping changes in version control and deploying through review.
Requirements
  • At least 8 years of hands-on systems administration experience and deep Linux troubleshooting skills, including kernel, file system, systemd, performance, and networking issues.
  • Practical experience operating physical Linux servers, virtualization, containers, storage, and server lifecycle upgrades.
  • Strong networking knowledge covering routing, firewalls, DHCP, DNS, and secure remote access.
  • Experience administering AWS resources, especially compute and object storage, and operating self-hosted Git and CI services.
  • Proficiency in Bash and working knowledge of Python; experience maintaining Ansible or comparable configuration-management automation.
  • Strong security and operational judgment, including patching, least privilege, change planning, rollback, incident documentation, and clear written English.
Nice to have
  • Server management controllers, RAID, data-center operations, GPU infrastructure, alternative virtualization platforms, or SAN/NAS storage.
  • Monitoring and intrusion detection, build farms, package caches, backup systems, compliance controls, Debian-based systems, or additional cloud providers.
Benefits and work setup
  • Full-time, remote individual-contributor position in the United States. U.S. citizenship is required.
  • Listed base salary is $125,000–$165,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.

Position Requirements

10+ Years work experience
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