Vultr
Senior Linux System Administrator
$80K–$100K
Remote - United States · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years administering enterprise Linux environments.
About the job
Administers Vultr’s Linux infrastructure, supports incident response, and leads projects to maintain and upgrade servers and services.
What you'll do
- Mentor and train system administrators; lead technical projects from planning through implementation.
- Manage escalated incident response, advanced troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
- Provision and configure servers, virtual machines, and software; plan and deploy platform upgrades across the server fleet.
What they ask for
- 5+ years administering enterprise Linux environments such as CentOS, Debian, or Ubuntu.
- Advanced Linux system administration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and security knowledge.
- Proficiency in Bash, Python, or another scripting language used for automation and infrastructure management.
- Experience with virtualization and containerized workloads, including Kubernetes and Libvirt.
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of Cumulus Linux, PHP routing, and related infrastructure technologies.
Pay
$80,000 - $100,000 USD base salary
Tools
CentOS, Debian, Ubuntu, Bash, Python, Kubernetes, Libvirt, Ceph
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