# Senior Linux Systems Administrator

Location: Remote - United States Department: Information Technology - Infrastructure Engineering Reports to: Infrastructure Engineering Manager Employment Type: Full-time, individual contributor Experience: 8+ years of relevant hands-on experience Base Salary: $125,000-$165,000 annually, plus equity and benefits Eligibility: U.S. citizenship required Senior Linux Systems Administrator RapidFort, Infrastructure ======================================================================= ABOUT RAPIDFORT --------------- RapidFort helps enterprises and government organizations reduce software supply-chain risk through hardened container images, runtime-based attack surface reduction, and automated vulnerability remediation. We own and operate the infrastructure that supports our engineering teams and core systems. ABOUT THE ROLE -------------- RapidFort is looking for a senior Linux systems administrator to own and run its infrastructure: bare-metal Linux servers in data centers, the virtual machines and containers that run on them, the networks that connect them to each other and to our staff, self-hosted development services such as GitLab and CI, and our resources in AWS. You will keep t

- **Id**: 3709295
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/rapidfort-senior-linux-systems-administrator>
- **Role**: DevOps
- **Role family**: DevOps
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T19:20:22Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T08:28:09Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 9767
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity, Cloud Security, DevSecOps

## Company

- **Id**: 1398
- **Name**: RapidFort
- **Domain**: rapidfort.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/rapidfort>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 9
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 125000
- **Max**: 165000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 165000

## Technologies

- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Ansible** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **CUDA** — Optional: no
- **Debian** — Optional: no
- **DHCP** — Optional: no
- **DNS** — Optional: no
- **Docker** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GitLab** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **GPG** — Optional: no
- **Grafana** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Jenkins** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **KVM** — Optional: no
- **Linode** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **npm** — Optional: no
- **OpenTofu** — Optional: no
- **Prometheus** — Optional: no
- **Proxmox VE** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **QEMU** — Optional: no
- **TCP/IP** — Optional: no
- **Tcpdump** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **VMWare** — Optional: no
- **Wazuh** — Optional: no
- **Wireshark** — Optional: no
- **Xen** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T22:12:23Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 5
- **Expected fill days**: 36
- **Reasons**: conf:2, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 165000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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