Senior Linux Systems Engineer - Santa Clara, CA, United States
$159,000 - $239,000 USD yearly
About the role
This role involves designing, deploying, and maintaining complex infrastructure, automating workflows, and mentoring junior staff while ensuring high availability, security, and performance of systems.
What you'll do
- Install, configure, and maintain Linux servers, including Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Ubuntu, and Rocky Linux distributions.
- Deploy and manage virtualization platforms including KVM, XEN, and VMWare.
- Develop and maintain automation scripts and playbooks using Ansible and Terraform.
- Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications using Docker, and administer Kubernetes or OpenShift clusters.
- Support HPC cluster environments by managing job scheduling systems (Slurm, LSF) and optimizing parallel file systems (Lustre, GPFS).
- Implement security practices including patch management, vulnerability assessments, access controls, and compliance auditing.
What you'll need
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of professional experience in Linux system administration with RHEL, Ubuntu, and Rocky Linux environments.
- Proven experience managing virtualization technologies including KVM, XEN, and VMWare.
- Solid understanding and practical experience with enterprise storage solutions such as SAN, NAS, and distributed storage platforms like Ceph.
- Proficiency in automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible and Terraform.
- Experience with container technologies including Docker and orchestration platforms like Kubernetes or OpenShift.
- Strong scripting skills in Python for automation and system integration tasks.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with HPC cluster management, job schedulers (Slurm, LSF), and parallel file systems (Lustre, GPFS).
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) or equivalent Linux certification.
- Certifications in virtualization (e.g., VMware Certified Professional) and container orchestration (e.g., Certified Kubernetes Administrator).
Skills: Linux system administration, virtualization, container orchestration, HPC, Ansible, Kubernetes
This role has been open 0 days — well below the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
845
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$236k
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| Metric | Ampere Computing | All employers we track in this specialty (845 roles · 85 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 10 | 845 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 29 | 5833 · 143 employers |
| Median days open | 15 d | 50 d (−35 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $236k |
Skills observed across this category: Linux system administration, virtualization, container orchestration, HPC, Ansible, Kubernetes
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 234 open roles · median 39 d
- Qualcomm · 54 open roles · median 63 d
- AMD · 40 open roles · median 24 d
- Cerebras · 38 open roles · median 62 d
- Graphcore · 36 open roles · median 92 d
- Micron Technology · 31 open roles · median 48 d
How we counted: 845 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 85 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 27 Sept 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.