Top Senior Linux Jobs in Atlanta, GA

Own the architecture, implementation, and operational excellence of major Azure Boost DPU software components. Develop low-level systems software spanning operating systems, virtualization, networking, storage, device management, and hardware interfaces. Lead complex cross-functional initiatives, optimize hyperscale performance and reliability, resolve system-level issues, establish engineering practices, influence platform architecture, and mentor engineers across Azure infrastructure teams.

Lead development of AI infrastructure for large-scale GPU training and inference. Design workload scheduling, serving, orchestration, resource governance, failover, and multitenant Kubernetes platforms. Build reliable C# and Go services, optimize GPU fleet performance, and drive observability, diagnostics, and production operations. Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, mentoring, and cross-team collaboration across cloud infrastructure, hardware, networking, and AI deployment teams.

Leads a DevOps engineering team responsible for designing, operating, and scaling globally distributed DNS infrastructure. Oversees infrastructure automation, reliability engineering, observability, security, compliance, incident management, and multi-region deployments across cloud, bare-metal, and hybrid environments. Establishes SLOs, improves operational efficiency, supports DDoS resilience and DNS security, and partners with engineering, product, security, and executive stakeholders on infrastructure strategy and business growth.

Develop and maintain runtime products by researching legacy codebases, backporting CVE security patches, building packages across Linux distributions and architectures, and creating automated testing and AI-assisted security workflows. The role requires deep C/C++ systems expertise, build-toolchain archaeology, cross-compilation experience, and strong ownership of correctness. It also includes customer support for compatibility and upgrade issues.

Administers and supports enterprise IBM MQ environments, including queue managers, channels, clustering, distributed queuing, security, monitoring, upgrades, troubleshooting, and performance optimization. Supports RHEL and AIX systems, develops shell scripts, manages certificates and access controls, performs incident response and root cause analysis, maintains technical documentation, and participates in production support and on-call activities.

Administer and support enterprise IBM MQ environments, including queue managers, channels, clustering, distributed queuing, security, monitoring, troubleshooting, upgrades, and performance optimization. Support RHEL, AIX, and Unix/Linux systems; develop shell scripts; manage incidents, root cause analysis, capacity planning, documentation, and production on-call activities. Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and operations teams in a high-availability banking environment.

Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automated deployment workflows across AWS and Azure. Manage Docker and Kubernetes environments, implement GitOps with ArgoCD, automate provisioning with Ansible and AWX, administer Linux and Windows systems, and support release engineering. Develop scripts, monitor system health, apply security policies, troubleshoot production issues, and collaborate with development, QA, and operations teams to deliver reliable software releases.

Leads a site reliability engineering team and owns the reliability, observability, automation, and AI-enabled operations roadmap. Establishes SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and reliability metrics while advancing self-healing systems, AIOps, CI/CD, chaos engineering, incident response, capacity planning, and ITSM/ITOM integrations. Develops engineers, manages vendors, partners with security and governance teams, and drives adoption of engineering-led reliability practices across technology organizations.

Leads and performs development, configuration, testing, release support, and production support for NICE Actimize AML platforms. Responsibilities include scenario and rule tuning, alert and case workflow management, troubleshooting in Linux and Oracle environments, migration support, SDLC compliance, stakeholder coordination, and team leadership. The role requires strong AML transaction-monitoring expertise, hands-on Actimize experience, and knowledge of banking systems, databases, scripting, and regulatory controls.

Develop and operate Akamai’s cloud platform infrastructure, automation, observability tooling, and distributed systems. Investigate performance bottlenecks across physical, virtualized, and containerized Linux environments; improve kernel and hardware compatibility; automate infrastructure with configuration-management tools; and troubleshoot complex issues with support, operations, and engineering teams.

Architect, develop, test, and distribute software, services, and infrastructure supporting Akamai’s cloud hypervisor platforms. Enhance observability, automate operational processes, troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call service restoration. The role focuses on Linux internals, hardware enablement, KVM/QEMU virtualization, operating systems, nested virtualization, and large-scale infrastructure deployment.

Architect, develop, test, and distribute software, services, and infrastructure supporting Akamai’s cloud hypervisor platforms. Improve observability, automate infrastructure processes, troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues, mentor engineers, and participate in on-call service restoration. The role requires deep Linux, kernel, virtualization, ARM hardware, large-scale infrastructure, DevOps, and configuration-management expertise.

Administers and engineers UNIX and Linux operating environments, including AIX, HP-UX, and Solaris. Responsibilities include installation, upgrades, patching, tuning, security audits, STIG compliance, backups, disaster recovery, data replication, clustering, virtualization, load balancing, storage management, and data migrations. The role designs high-availability and redundant systems, troubleshoots infrastructure, supports multiple environments, and develops operating-system strategies and recovery procedures for the Defense Logistics Agency.

Design and build production-grade mission, behavior, and motion planning systems for autonomous ground-support vehicles in airport environments. Responsibilities include selecting planning algorithms, architecting software interfaces, optimizing trajectories, addressing uncertainty and real-time constraints, collaborating with perception and controls teams, applying safety practices, and mentoring engineers. The role requires strong C++ or Python skills, Linux experience, and hands-on autonomous systems planning experience.

The Senior IT Systems Engineer automates IT operations through infrastructure as code, service configuration management, monitoring, and workflow automation. Responsibilities include Terraform-driven GitHub administration, ITSM-based automation prioritization, security control implementation, system hardening, desktop support, troubleshooting, and documentation. The role requires strong Terraform, FleetDM, macOS, Linux, identity management, and scripting experience, with collaboration across security and IT teams.

Lead architecture and roadmap for Azure PostgreSQL systems; design and review scalable, maintainable database engine features (query processing, storage, transaction logging, recovery, versioning, IO, scale-out). Influence coding standards and run code reviews, write proof-of-concept or production code, contribute to open-source PostgreSQL/Linux, and participate in rotational on-call operations.

Leads enterprise cloud and infrastructure platform architecture across Azure, data centers, networking, databases, compute, virtualization, and security controls. Owns hybrid-cloud target architecture, migration strategy, engineering standards, governance, modernization, vulnerability remediation, resiliency, automation, vendor relationships, and operational metrics. Serves as the senior technical authority while guiding teams and influencing executives on large-scale infrastructure decisions.

Deploy, manage, validate, and optimize large-scale AI compute and HPC infrastructure in Linux environments. Serve as a technical liaison among NVIDIA, partners, and enterprise customers; lead planning through implementation, document handoffs, transfer knowledge, troubleshoot hardware and software, and provide feedback for product and architecture improvements. The role involves networking, system design, automation, benchmarking, cluster provisioning, and customer-site travel up to 30%.

Build secure software for government and defense clients using Palantir Foundry and modern engineering practices. Responsibilities include decomposing business problems, supporting agentic development, pairing with client and military engineers, delivering continuously, measuring user outcomes, facilitating technical discussions, managing technical debt, and mentoring less experienced engineers. The role requires full-stack development, API development, containerization, DevSecOps, TDD, agile methods, and active DoD clearance.

Designs, prototypes, and tests emerging technologies spanning operating systems, virtualization, graphics, GPGPU, secure computing, and adjacent markets. Leads research into next-generation architectures and toolchains, conducts feasibility studies, collaborates with academic and research partners, and translates proof-of-concept work into production-adjacent solutions. The role focuses on technical risk reduction and product concept-to-market readiness.

Administers and troubleshoots enterprise IBM Sterling and Axway file transfer platforms in a critical financial services environment. Responsibilities include Unix/Linux administration, log analysis, production incident resolution, upgrades, patching, shell scripting, Ansible automation, disaster recovery, security compliance, and root cause analysis. Provides cross-functional production support, participates in on-call rotations, and maintains secure, reliable file transfer operations.

Designs, deploys, and supports AWS cloud infrastructure and mission-critical environments. Automates CI/CD using Jenkins, provisions infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation, manages configuration with Ansible, and builds secure, highly available VPC architectures. Responsibilities include cloud monitoring, security controls, Golden AMI creation, deployment support, documentation, and after-hours PagerDuty support. The role requires collaboration within Agile teams and no travel.

Own and improve IT automation across onboarding, offboarding, device logistics, identity, and business workflows. Manage Workato recipes, connections, monitoring, alerts, and failure response while building Okta, Jira, and Rovo workflows. Establish IT-as-code practices using Terraform, CI/CD, Python, Bash, and Linux. Partner with Security Operations and Business Applications, maintain at least 99% flow reliability, document runbooks, investigate root causes, and report reliability metrics to leadership.

Leads architecture, automation, reliability, and evolution of secure cloud platforms supporting federal systems. Owns Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD, observability, incident response, disaster recovery, and platform standards. Partners across engineering, security, architecture, and product teams; evaluates technologies, leads technical decisions, and mentors engineers. Requires deep DevOps, infrastructure, Kubernetes, Terraform, cloud, scripting, and production troubleshooting expertise, along with technical leadership and ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.

Manage and scale AWS infrastructure in Linux environments, automate infrastructure with AWS CDK and CloudFormation, and build reliable CI/CD pipelines. Develop backend systems using TypeScript, Java, Python, Node.js, and SQL databases. Implement monitoring and observability, apply SRE practices, troubleshoot application and infrastructure issues, manage secure file transfer workflows, and collaborate with engineering, product, support, and external partners.