Relativity Space
Sr Linux Administrator
$103K–$155K
Long Beach, California, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years of hands-on Linux systems administration in production.
About the job
Provides Linux administration and escalation support across engineering, maintaining and provisioning a mixed fleet of hosts and its configuration management codebase.
What you'll do
- Triage and resolve Linux issues involving authentication, services, storage, performance, and remote connectivity.
- Provision and maintain Linux laptops, workstations, servers, and lab systems; manage access, patching, health checks, backups, and capacity.
- Make small, reviewed changes to configuration management code.
What they ask for
- Hands-on Linux systems administration in production, with responsibility for fleet health.
- Configuration management and infrastructure-as-code experience, including reading, modifying, and debugging automation in peer review.
- Medium-to-advanced troubleshooting across services, networking, storage, authentication, and performance.
- Enterprise directory integration on Linux, credential and key management, scripting proficiency, and experience serving as a technical escalation point.
Nice to have
- Automated bare-metal and VM provisioning at scale; precision time synchronization; kernel or driver-level troubleshooting.
- Containerization, CI/CD, observability, security-baseline hardening, or aerospace, manufacturing, or test operations experience.
Pay
$103,000 — $155,000 USD (hiring range; salary)
Tools
Linux
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