Full-Time Senior Linux System Admin -- Federal

Note: This position supports US Federal customers. Requires ServiceNow background screening, USFedPASS (US Federal Personnel Authorization Screening Standards). Includes credit check, criminal/misdemeanor check, and drug test. Employment contingent upon passing screening. Only US citizens, naturalized citizens, or permanent residents (green card holders) will be considered.

Role Summary: Senior Linux System Admin to support on-premises customers. Key member of the Cloud Ops engineering team, responsible for supporting infrastructure needs to build/manage environments for ServiceNow products.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in delivering/promoting end-to-end solution architecture roadmaps.
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, test, and production support teams.
• Support built systems, web services, and automation tools.
• Design solutions for replication, sharding, and performance optimization.
• Recommend code tuning/optimizations.
• Design scalable software and database architecture.
• Research and implement new tools/technologies.

Qualifications:

• Strong background in systems architecture and engineering.
• Understanding of software infrastructure components (hardware, OS, virtualization, application, database, web, application servers).
• Prior experience in software development/engineering, release management, and managing large-scale server infrastructure is desirable.
• Strong Linux expertise is required.
• Minimum Experience: 4+ years building/maintaining Linux systems; 4+ years with Relational Database technologies (Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, Oracle).
• Strong problem-solving, leadership, time management, and critical thinking skills.
• Self-motivated and accountable.
• Strong experience with database/system performance analysis, capacity sizing, and optimization.
• In-depth understanding of public/private cloud technologies (data centers, systems, networks, web applications, relational databases).
• Familiarity with networking/storage concepts (routing, IP networking, DNS, load balancers, block/file storage).
• Comfortable designing, authoring, testing, and debugging code (Bash, Python, Ruby, Perl).
• Solid understanding of database replication/high availability, storage engines, system performance, and benchmarking.
• Familiarity with virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies.
• Excellent communication skills and collaborative team environment.
• Education: CS/EE degree with 6+ years of related experience is required.

Compensation: Base pay $123,300 - $209,700 + equity/variable/incentive compensation + benefits.

Additional Information:

• Compensation based on location and subject to change.
• Flexible, remote, or on-site work options available.
• Equal Opportunity Employer.

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