DevOps Systems Administrator – Linux

The Role

As a DevOps Systems Administrator – Linux, you’ll play a key role in maintaining and evolving Global Relay’s on-premise infrastructure. You’ll focus on Linux system reliability, automation, performance, and security while working closely with development and application support teams to reduce operational overhead and scale enterprise-grade systems.

This role is ideal for a Linux professional who enjoys automation, deep troubleshooting, and building resilient infrastructure in high-availability environments.

What You’ll Do

• Deploy, update, monitor, and maintain Linux systems across multiple on-premise environments

• Automate OS updates, configuration management, and infrastructure workflows

• Collaborate with development teams to reduce manual effort (TOIL) in application deployments

• Support high-throughput, high-availability infrastructure with significant storage requirements

• Document operational procedures and maintain runbooks with application support teams

• Participate in an on-call rotation, providing second-level troubleshooting support

• Continuously improve system performance, stability, and scalability

• Champion an “automate everything” mindset

What You Bring

• 3+ years of hands-on experience as a Linux Systems Administrator (bare metal, VM, orchestration)

• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or similar)

• Experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible)

• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex systems across multiple layers

• Solid networking troubleshooting experience

• Experience working in Agile environments

• Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex technical issues

• Self-motivated, proactive, and highly organized

Nice to Have

• Kubernetes and containerization (Docker, Podman)

• CI/CD pipelines and Jenkins (Groovy-based pipelines)

• Monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Zabbix)

• SQL/database administration experience

• Web servers and load balancers (Nginx, Apache, HAProxy)

• Infrastructure performance tuning and capacity planning

• Exposure to object-oriented languages (Java, C#, etc.)