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Senior Linux System Engineer

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  1. Why do you want to join Jobgether?
  2. What is your experience with Linux? Tell me one thing you learned the hard way.
  3. What do you do when a production issue happens on your code?
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  5. Tell me about a hard bug you tracked down. How did you find the cause?

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Accountabilities:: You’ll take an active role in maintaining and scaling infrastructure while improving reliability, security, automation, and operational processes across production and non-production environments. Work closely with the Operations team to maintain, scale, and improve production infrastructure. Install, monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot hardware and software across infrastructure environments. Develop scripts and automation to streamline recurring jobs and operational processes. Own the security, stability, availability, and uptime of production, staging, and development environments. Monitor systems and respond to alerts and incidents as part of day-to-day operations. Participate in an on-call rotation for priority-1 alerts alongside the broader Operations team. Maintain network, server, and storage assets across cloud environments. Drive infrastructure upgrades, improvements, and operational process enhancements. Contribute to application and infrastructure release planning and configuration changes. Act as a technical point of contact for internal teams, clients, and third-party vendors. Troubleshoot and resolve complex infrastructure and application issues while communicating technical details clearly to non-technical stakeholders. Requirements The ideal candidate brings extensive Linux administration experience, strong infrastructure fundamentals, scripting capabilities, and confidence working directly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. 7+ years of experience in Linux system administration supporting production environments. Experience with Debian or Debian-based Linux distributions is a plus. Scripting experience in at least one language, such as Bash, Python, or PHP. Strong understanding of the LAMP/LEMP stack. Experience with networking and security concepts. Experience deploying and debugging complex applications. Experience with MySQL database administration. Experience managing mail servers, particularly PowerMTA, including mail deliverability and troubleshooting. Experience with cloud-based services and virtualization. Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across complex infrastructure environments. Ability to communicate technical issues and solutions clearly to non-technical clients and stakeholders. Comfortable working collaboratively while taking ownership of technical problems through to resolution. Proactive mindset with an interest in continuous infrastructure improvement. Benefits Remote work opportunity within North America. Full-time, permanent employment. Opportunity to work with large-scale, high-availability cloud infrastructure. Hands-on exposure to AWS services including EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, and CloudFront. Experience across technologies including LEMP, PowerMTA, pfSense, Zabbix, Grafana, Proxmox, Graylog, Datadog, Edgescan, and ClickHouse. Opportunity to work across infrastructure security, automation, networking, monitoring, virtualization, and database administration. Collaborative environment with exposure to internal teams, enterprise clients, and external technology partners. Opportunity to contribute directly to infrastructure modernization, reliability, and operational improvements.

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