Top Senior Linux Jobs in Houston, TX

Designs, implements, and manages AWS infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code automation. Partners with application engineering, quality, security, and compliance teams to deliver reliable platform solutions. Owns platform stability, observability, incident response, security best practices, and zero-downtime deployments. Participates in on-call rotations, uses metrics for decision-making, and supports application architecture decisions while continuously improving DevOps processes and automation.

Architect, scale, and secure AWS infrastructure using IaC and automation. Build self-service templates, maintain FedRAMP-ready configurations, support incident response, optimize performance with Datadog, and mentor junior engineers.

Senior DevOps Engineer responsible for infrastructure automation, monitoring, reliability, secure Linux administration, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud and networking strategy, and zero-touch provisioning. The role includes incident response, capacity planning, observability, documentation, on-call support, technical leadership, mentoring, and researching technologies across cloud, virtualization, and hardware platforms.

Lead the design, development, and implementation of resilient pricing tools using Python and cloud technologies. Improve automation, deployment reliability, testing, documentation, and technical standards. Coordinate complex projects, research new development practices, identify technical blockers, and mentor junior developers. Collaborate with stakeholders while developing expertise in insurance pricing and supporting applications built with technologies such as Streamlit, Flask, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud compute.

Lead the Site Reliability Engineering organization, managing and developing technical teams while driving reliability, scalability, observability, automation, and operational excellence. Responsibilities include infrastructure automation, vulnerability management, incident response, SLA and SLO analysis, monitoring improvements, post-incident reviews, ITIL processes, vendor coordination, and cross-functional reliability initiatives for large-scale production storage systems.

Provides advanced technical support for robotic systems during commissioning and 24/7 customer operations. Diagnoses hardware, software, controls, Linux, network, and automation failures; analyzes logs and telemetry; develops integrations and support workflows; leads major incidents; coordinates engineering, field service, and customer teams; manages cases and corrective actions; validates AI-assisted diagnostics; and mentors engineers while improving system reliability and recovery times.

Designs and implements Go-based control-plane software for custom AI inference hardware. Responsibilities span system management APIs, Linux services, hardware interfaces, diagnostics, observability, security, firmware updates, distributed systems, and workload management. The role requires hands-on debugging across application, operating system, firmware, and hardware boundaries, plus technical leadership, mentoring, architecture, and production ownership. Regular on-site lab work includes server racking, system bring-up, hardware troubleshooting, and documentation.

Develop and maintain Akamai’s custom Linux kernel and distribution for a globally distributed cloud platform. Responsibilities include adding performance, reliability, and security features; porting modifications to newer kernels; debugging production and test issues; improving build and continuous-testing automation; collaborating with platform, application, test, and hardware teams; and contributing work upstream to the open-source Linux community.

Design, automate, secure, and operate multi-cloud platform environments across Azure and AWS. Build infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, containerized services, observability, security controls, and enterprise data-platform integrations. Troubleshoot incidents, improve resiliency and performance, support governance and analytics services, document architecture and procedures, and provide technical leadership while collaborating with engineering, cybersecurity, data, architecture, and government stakeholders.

Designs and maintains CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, deployment processes, monitoring, and operational tooling for Java-based enterprise applications. Integrates automated testing, security scanning, vulnerability management, containerization, and secure credential practices. Collaborates with development, cybersecurity, database, QA, systems administration, and customer teams to deliver reliable releases and support compliance, hardening, patching, and continuous monitoring in a controlled environment.

Design, build, test, and deliver software for managing virtual machines alongside Kubernetes workloads in secure, disconnected environments. Develop Kubernetes tooling, APIs, VM image workflows, management capabilities, and integrations for networking, storage, observability, and security. Debug complex distributed systems, improve reliability and performance, make architectural decisions, review code, mentor engineers, and collaborate with product, UX, and mission stakeholders.

Provides database administration and engineering for production systems, including replication, query optimization, backups, disaster recovery, performance tuning, capacity planning, security, and reliability. Establishes database standards, collaborates with application and infrastructure teams, monitors system performance, reviews technical designs, and supports scalable SaaS database environments across MySQL/Linux and SQL Server/Windows.

Design, operate, and improve Recharge’s cloud-native infrastructure platform. Responsibilities include Kubernetes and GCP infrastructure management, troubleshooting production issues, maintaining observability and reliability, implementing new technologies, improving engineering standards and documentation, supporting security and automation, and participating in a 24/7 on-call rotation. The role also involves mentoring engineers and applying AI tools to improve team productivity.

Manage and optimize large-scale Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2 and Oracle database environments across on-premises and cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include installation, cloning, patching, upgrades, monitoring, performance tuning, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, cloud migration, security compliance, and capacity planning. The role supports Oracle RAC, ASM, RMAN, Data Guard, OCI, Exadata, and DoD environments while collaborating with government stakeholders and engineering teams. It also includes mentoring junior DBAs and maintaining technical documentation.

Develop and maintain backend and frontend services for a SaaS cyber-physical systems platform using Python, Go, React, and cloud-native technologies. Investigate production incidents, replicate customer issues in staging, perform root cause analysis, and deliver feature enhancements. Ensure compliance with FedRAMP, CMMC, and GovCloud requirements while collaborating with distributed engineering teams across the US and Israel.

Develop and maintain Intelerad’s Unified Storage Layer and cloud storage services for medical imaging applications. Responsibilities include designing software features, translating support and stakeholder requirements into solutions, debugging cloud infrastructure, managing Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, and CI/CD environments, reviewing code, documenting systems, and delivering work within an Agile/Scrum team.

Administer and optimize enterprise Windows and Linux infrastructure, virtualization, cloud platforms, networks, storage, security, endpoints, identity systems, and disaster recovery. Monitor performance, resolve infrastructure issues, maintain compliance controls, document systems, support technical escalations, and lead upgrades, migrations, and deployments. The role requires independent management of complex environments and strong communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Build and operate large-scale data acquisition systems, including web crawlers, distributed processing platforms, backend services, data pipelines, and asynchronous workloads. Improve ingestion reliability, scalability, observability, fault tolerance, and data quality. Collaborate with data product and engineering teams to develop data products, design schemas and pipelines, and deliver resilient systems in a remote-first environment.

Administer and optimize Oracle databases across AWS RDS GovCloud and on-premises environments. Responsibilities include upgrades, patching, backup and recovery, performance monitoring, SQL and PL/SQL troubleshooting, database security, Linux and Windows administration, RMF and DISA STIG compliance, audit evidence, vulnerability remediation, release support, and technical documentation. The role requires customer communication, independent problem-solving, and occasional after-hours support and travel.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. The role involves discovering data sources, developing reliable data-processing systems, optimizing quality, throughput, and cost, and collaborating with AI scientists. The engineer will own projects from discovery through implementation and ongoing improvement, using strong backend engineering skills in Python, Bash, and Linux environments.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, improving data-processing systems for quality, throughput, and cost, collaborating with AI scientists, and owning engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement. The role requires strong backend software engineering skills, production systems experience, and proficiency in Python, Bash, and Linux, with preferred experience in web crawling, distributed processing, GCP, Terraform, and audio or ML training data.

Build large-scale data pipelines and processing systems that produce high-quality audio datasets for AI model training. Discover data sources, optimize throughput, quality, and cost, operate production systems, and collaborate with AI scientists on next-generation models. The role requires strong backend software engineering, independent problem-solving, and ownership of projects from discovery through continuous improvement.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines that collect audio data for AI training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, optimizing data-processing systems for quality, throughput, and cost, collaborating with AI scientists, and owning engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement.

Build and operate large-scale data pipelines for AI training datasets, including discovering audio sources, processing data efficiently, optimizing quality and cost, and collaborating with AI scientists. Own engineering projects from discovery through implementation and continuous improvement. The role requires strong backend software engineering, production systems experience, Python and Bash proficiency, and independent problem-solving in ambiguous environments.

Build and operate large-scale audio data pipelines for AI model training. Responsibilities include discovering data sources, developing reliable data-processing systems, optimizing data quality, throughput, and cost, collaborating with AI scientists, and owning engineering projects from discovery through continuous improvement.