# Senior Linux Engineer

Responsibilities Oversee installation, configuration, and maintenance of Linux servers across diverse enterprise client environments. Serve as a senior escalation point for P1/P2 client incidents, ensuring timely SLA adherence, technical resolution, and clear communication to clients and internal stakeholders. Proactively maintain and develop all Linux infrastructure technology to deliver 24x7x365 uptime services. Perform system performance management, patching, troubleshooting, upgrades, and lifecycle management to ensure high availability and reliability. Implement and enforce security best practices, vulnerability management, and compliance standards (CIS, NIST, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, or client-specific frameworks). Support incident, change, problem, and request management processes in alignment with ITIL frameworks. Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Windows, Network, Security, Cloud) to deliver integrated client solutions. Lead or support client onboarding and migration projects by assessing Linux environments, standardizing configurations, and integrating systems into MSP monitoring and management platforms. Develop and refine SOPs, runbooks, and knowledge base article

- **Id**: 3737434
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ahead-senior-linux-engineer>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Gurgaon, India, Bengaluru, India, Hyderabad, India
- **Countries**: IN
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T07:35:12Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-05T16:31:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 1
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3298
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing, Transportation & Logistics, AI Consulting & Integration

## Company

- **Id**: 3614
- **Name**: AHEAD
- **Domain**: ahead.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ahead>
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 74
- **Open postings**: 37
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.838
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 74
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CentOS Stream** — Optional: no
- **Chef** — Optional: no
- **Configuration Management** — Optional: no
- **Debian** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **HIPAA** — Optional: no
- **ITIL** — Optional: no
- **KVM** — Optional: no
- **LDAP** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **PCI DSS** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Splunk** — Optional: no
- **Ubuntu** — Optional: no
- **VMWare** — Optional: no
- **Windows** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **CloudFormation** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **GitLab CI** — Optional: yes
- **Jenkins** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **OpenShift** — Optional: yes
- **ServiceNow** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 1

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 9
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Hiring locations

- **India** — Iso: IN; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T10:27:41Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 74
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-05T05:54:30Z

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