RI Infrastructure Engineer - Linux & Data Center RapidFort, Inc Remote · US · Platform & Infrastructure

INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER - Linux & Data Center

Department:
Information Technology — Infrastructure Engineering

Reports To:

Infrastructure Engineering Manager

Employment Type:

Full-time
Experience Level: 2–4 years
Base Salary: $100,000–$125,000 USD annually
Travel:
Periodic data center and colocation site visits
On-Call:
Participates in a shared infrastructure on-call rotation, with senior escalation support

On-site requirement:
This role has hands-on data center responsibility and cannot be performed fully remote.

Rapid Fort is a cybersecurity company focused on helping organizations secure and optimize their software supply chain and containerized environments. Our platform helps teams reduce software vulnerabilities and attack surface while improving the security and efficiency of modern cloud-native applications.

We work with commercial enterprises and public‑sector organizations operating in highly regulated and security‑sensitive environments.

Rapid Fort Inc. runs its core systems on infrastructure we own and operate. We are looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to help build, automate, and run that estate alongside our senior engineers.

This is a hands‑on role with a deliberate weighting:
roughly 70% Linux systems engineering and automation, 30% data center hardware, storage, and network. Most of your week is spent in the Linux environment — building, patching, scripting, and troubleshooting — and a real part of it is spent with your hands on physical infrastructure.

This is a growth role, and we mean that concretely. You will work to standards set by our Infrastructure Engineering Manager and Lead Infrastructure Engineer, with design review and mentorship built into how the team operates. You are not expected to arrive with deep storage or network architecture experience. You are expected to be strong on Linux, genuinely comfortable scripting, and willing to learn the physical side properly rather than treating it as someone else’s job.

We are being specific about the split because it shapes the day. If you want a pure cloud or pure software role, this is not it. If you want to understand infrastructure from the rack up while doing serious automation work, it is a good place to spend a few years.

Linux systems and automation (the majority of your time)

• Build, configure, and harden Linux systems (RHEL/Rocky and Ubuntu) against our defined baselines and images.

• Write and extend automation in Bash and Python for provisioning, remediation, routine reporting, and evidence collection.

• Contribute to our Ansible content — write and maintain roles and playbooks under the team's established standards.

• Execute patching and OS life cycle work: test, stage, roll out, track exceptions, and flag end-of-life systems.

• Troubleshoot Linux issues across CPU, memory, I/O, file system, and systemd, escalating when a problem exceeds your depth.

• Look for repetitive manual work on the team and propose automation for it.

Data center, hardware, and network

• Execute server hardware tasks: staging and burn‑in, racking, cabling, firmware and BIOS updates, out‑of‑band management, and decommissioning.

• Perform first‑line hardware diagnosis and open and track vendor support and RMA cases.

• Carry out day‑to‑day storage tasks on our SAN/NAS platforms — provisioning, presentation, and capacity monitoring.

• Perform routine hypervisor work: VM provisioning from templates, host patching, and cluster health checks.

• Make data center network changes to established standards — VLANs, switch ports, DNS, DHCP — and troubleshoot connectivity faults.

• Keep asset, IPAM, rack, and topology records accurate. This…