Linux Systems Engineer / RHEL / Hybrid in Scottsdale
Motion Recruitment · Scottsdale, AZ · 1 mo ago
HybridContract
About the role
A growing financial technology organization in Scottsdale, AZ is seeking a Linux Systems Engineer II to support and maintain critical infrastructure across both on-premises and cloud environments.
Responsibilities
- Support and maintain critical infrastructure across both on-premises and cloud environments
- Focuses heavily on Red Hat Linux administration, AWS cloud services, infrastructure automation, and enterprise systems support
- Work with a team responsible for maintaining the performance, security, and availability of large-scale hosting environments that support both internal operations and customer-facing platforms
- Enjoy working across diverse infrastructure technologies and solving complex operational challenges
- Operate independently, contribute to infrastructure improvements, and help drive reliability and automation initiatives in a mission-critical environment
Requirements
- 5+ years of Red Hat Linux system administration experience
- Strong experience supporting enterprise infrastructure environments
- Hands-on knowledge of AWS services including EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, and CloudWatch
- Experience with Bash scripting and automation
- Understanding of data-at-rest encryption technologies
- Experience administering and maintaining production Linux environments
- Strong troubleshooting and performance tuning skills
- Ability to support both cloud and on-premises infrastructure
- High school diploma or GED
Qualifications
- RHCE (Red Hat Certified Engineer) certification
- Additional infrastructure certifications related to Linux, Windows, Virtualization, Storage, or Data Center technologies
- Experience working with virtualization platforms
- Exposure to storage and datacenter technologies
- Knowledge of Windows server environments
- Experience supporting highly available enterprise systems
- Strong documentation and communication skills