Hybrid Senior Systems Administrator

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About the role

  • Senior Systems Administrator/DevOps Engineer maintaining Linux production systems at Medata. Involves hands-on administration and support of web applications and automation practices.

Responsibilities

  • Administer and maintain Linux production and corporate systems (RHEL-compatible distributions including RHEL, Rocky Linux, and CentOS; plus BSD variants).
  • Support legacy and modern web application platforms, including Java- and Node-based services, traditional web stacks, and middleware.
  • Operate and maintain virtualized and clustered infrastructure (VMware, Proxmox, oVirt, Ceph).
  • Automate provisioning, configuration, and maintenance using Ansible, Puppet, and scripting.
  • Deploy and support containerized and service-based workloads (Docker; Kubernetes exposure a plus).
  • Monitor system health, performance, and availability; troubleshoot and resolve production incidents.
  • Own system and network security including patching, firewalls, certificates, and access controls.
  • Work with networking and storage technologies (NGINX, HAProxy, SMB/NFS/iSCSI, VPNs).
  • Collaborate with developers to improve deployment pipelines, operational stability, and scalability.
  • Maintain documentation, runbooks, and operational standards.
  • Participate in after-hours/on-call support as needed.

Requirements

  • 5+ years experience administering Linux production environments, preferably RHEL-compatible systems.
  • Strong troubleshooting across systems, networking, storage, and applications.
  • Experience supporting legacy and modern web applications in operational environments.
  • Scripting experience (Bash or similar).
  • Familiarity with DevOps practices: automation, monitoring, CI/CD awareness.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across engineering teams.
  • Self-directed, detail-oriented, and comfortable owning production systems.
  • Nice to Have: Kubernetes or cloud-native experience.
  • High-availability or clustered database experience.
  • Linux, networking, or virtualization certifications.

Job title

Senior Systems Administrator

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$125,000 - $145,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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