Top Linux Jobs in Houston, TX

Leads an engineering team developing, maintaining, testing, and optimizing custom Linux kernel infrastructure at planetary scale. Responsibilities include feature development, performance tuning, vulnerability management, hardware support, low-level debugging, reliability and security strategy, mentoring, quality standards, and collaboration with technical teams and open-source communities. The role also requires hands-on technical contributions when needed.

Develop and support operational processes, documentation, requirements, system integration, deployment, troubleshooting, and sustainment for fielded mission systems. Collaborate with developers, engineers, mission stakeholders, internal teams, and external partners to maintain system functionality, interoperability, and delivery across distributed mission environments.

Leads complex network and infrastructure solution development from customer requirements through architecture, implementation, deployment, operations, and sustainment. Provides technical leadership, customer engagement, proposal support, solution presentations, team coordination, mentoring, risk management, and delivery accountability across enterprise, tactical, government, and commercial environments. Integrates networking, software, automation, cloud, cybersecurity, service management, and observability technologies while supporting classified and sensitive programs.

Serves as the strategic architect and technical lead for enterprise observability, APM, telemetry, and SRE ecosystems. Designs unified monitoring across hybrid cloud, Kubernetes, and legacy environments; establishes SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and incident-response practices; leads automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python, and GitOps; and develops secure, scalable telemetry pipelines. The role also leads FOAK implementations, monitoring migrations, vendor transitions, knowledge-transfer programs, major incident escalations, operational handoffs, and engineering-team mentoring.

Build and maintain a React/TypeScript operations portal and Supabase/PostgreSQL backend for autonomous aircraft medical logistics. Improve aircraft allocation, mission generation, telemetry ingestion, live dashboards, reliability, testing, logging, and observability. Integrate Python services with ArduPilot aircraft and simulations while collaborating with autonomy and simulation engineers to mature real-flight and digital-twin systems.

Own infrastructure, deployment, operational tooling, observability, deploy safety, and incident response for latency-sensitive institutional trading systems across cloud and colocated environments. Improve reliability, performance, and developer velocity; reduce single points of failure; establish operational standards and automation; partner with engineering, product, markets, and SRE; and mentor engineers in a 24/7 production environment.

Design, deploy, enhance, and support secure custom government network platforms and cloud services. Manage CI/CD pipelines, build systems, testing frameworks, distributed databases, and storage ecosystems. Lead technical initiatives, code reviews, security patching, Agile SDLC releases, and system performance improvements. Collaborate with Operations, Engineering, and SRE teams to troubleshoot complex issues and deliver resilient application delivery networks.

Serve as the senior technical contact for OEM Federal deployments of NVIDIA GPU-accelerated platforms. Own customer issues end to end, including troubleshooting, failure analysis, RMA procedures, root-cause investigation, and coordination with OEM support and NVIDIA engineering. Support secure Federal environments such as FedRAMP, IL5/IL6, and air-gapped SCIF facilities while maintaining sanitization and chain-of-custody requirements. Analyze multi-GPU systems, firmware, operating systems, networking, storage, and distributed workloads, with up to 35% travel.

Build and maintain enterprise web applications, APIs, and containerized microservices using Python and Django. Develop workflow engines, financial validation logic, relational database schemas, asynchronous integrations, role-based access controls, and CI/CD automation. Support complementary applications across multiple technology stacks while maintaining secure, auditable, and reliable systems.

Architects, implements, verifies, and integrates high-performance FPGA networking solutions for space-based electronic systems. Designs Ethernet datapaths, packet switching fabrics, routing and queuing logic, protocol offload functions, and high-speed interfaces using AMD Xilinx technologies. Performs RTL coding, simulation, timing closure, board bring-up, system debugging, and documentation. Collaborates with hardware and software teams, supports laboratory validation, and mentors junior engineers serving DoD, intelligence, and civil space customers.

Develop and maintain Java enterprise applications using Spring Boot, microservices, REST APIs, Oracle, and MongoDB. Design scalable systems, conduct testing, remediate vulnerabilities, troubleshoot distributed environments, participate in code reviews, document solutions, and mentor junior developers. The role also involves Linux, Git, Maven, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and cloud platforms such as OCI or AWS. An active Public Trust clearance and cybersecurity certification are required.

Designs and operates enterprise observability, monitoring, telemetry, and automation solutions across infrastructure, applications, IoT platforms, and cloud environments. Responsibilities include managing Grafana and Instana ecosystems, dashboards, alerts, telemetry pipelines, incidents, RCA, databases, and platform health. Automates provisioning, monitoring deployment, remediation, and operational workflows using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, and Puppet. Supports 24x7 operations, major incidents, ITIL processes, service onboarding, documentation, and cross-functional reliability initiatives.

Design and develop Rust and Go control-plane microservices, Kubernetes operators, reconciliation engines, and APIs for bare-metal AI infrastructure. Integrate datacenter networking systems, DPUs, network operating systems, and hardware-management platforms. Build observability with OpenTelemetry, troubleshoot distributed systems, and maintain rigorous testing practices. The role requires expertise in datacenter networking protocols, Linux networking, Kubernetes, provisioning, security, virtualization, and high-performance interconnects, along with architectural documentation and open-source collaboration.

Tests, validates, and troubleshoots next-generation cloud server hardware for performance, power, reliability, and quality. Develops test scripts, documents results, identifies defects, recommends improvements, and resolves hardware issues across engineering and manufacturing environments. Requires hands-on embedded systems debugging, Linux and scripting experience, and knowledge of server architecture, firmware, operating systems, networking, storage, and hardware acceleration technologies.

Lead technical ownership of InfiniBand and GPU interconnect fabric operations for hyperscale AI supercomputers. Drive incident response, deep multi-layer debugging across hardware/firmware/drivers/OS, and define failure models, playbooks, telemetry, and automation to improve reliability, observability, and scalability of GPU clusters and platform SLAs.

Owns product quality for a complex client-server web application and mobile SDK ecosystem. Responsibilities include writing test cases and acceptance criteria, clarifying requirements, executing end-to-end, regression, integration, and exploratory testing, assessing release risks, maintaining reusable test coverage, and improving testing infrastructure across backend, frontend, SDK, and native mobile platforms.

Lead the architecture and evolution of edge-to-cloud connectivity for globally deployed humanoid robots. Design highly available, low-latency, secure network systems spanning 5G, private LTE, on-premise deployments, and cloud infrastructure. Engineer high-throughput telemetry and control traffic, hybrid connectivity tunnels, SDN and virtualization solutions, and fleet-wide observability. Serve as the technical authority for network architecture while partnering with cross-functional leaders. Perform advanced packet, Wi-Fi, RF, and network performance analysis.

Support technical integrations between Sentrycs C-UAS technology and partner C2 or system-of-systems platforms. Configure, test, validate, and troubleshoot REST APIs and software interfaces; collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Customer Success teams; document requirements, configurations, issues, and resolutions; support technology partners; and drive integration problems through resolution. The role requires developing deep API and integration expertise while working with globally distributed teams.

Own reliability, performance, scalability, and operational standards across on-premises, private-cloud, and AWS environments. Build infrastructure-as-code, deployment automation, monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling; define SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, and readiness standards. Lead incident response, root-cause analysis, disaster-recovery readiness, release coordination, and preventive automation. Mentor engineers, coach teams on operational practices, coordinate on-call coverage, and ensure infrastructure meets security and compliance requirements.

Designs, builds, and scales automation for secure hybrid infrastructure. Responsibilities include CI/CD, infrastructure as code, cloud architecture, configuration management, monitoring, logging, security, network operations, containerization, and self-healing systems. The role maintains mission-critical production environments, develops performance metrics, resolves root causes, and collaborates cross-functionally to improve reliability and operational efficiency.

Leads the design, automation, operation, and scaling of infrastructure across on-premises data centers, GCP, and AWS. Responsibilities include infrastructure as code, configuration management, networking, load balancing, DNS, monitoring, observability, distributed systems administration, documentation, technical direction, project leadership, and mentoring. The role requires deep Linux, hardware, networking, cloud, storage, backup, and Python automation expertise.

Lead enterprise infrastructure and cloud assessments across AWS, Azure, hybrid, and on-premises environments. Assess migration readiness, modernization, disaster recovery, security, and infrastructure dependencies; coordinate cross-functional infrastructure specialists; develop executive-level recommendations, business cases, and transformation roadmaps; and present findings to client leadership. The role requires deep technical expertise, customer-facing leadership, mentorship, and experience with large-scale cloud and infrastructure modernization engagements.

Design, automate, and maintain scalable infrastructure and SRE tooling. Manage Kubernetes clusters, CI/CD, monitoring, and incident response. Improve processes, reduce toil via automation, and collaborate with engineering and data teams to support domestic and international workloads.

Own and operate a globally distributed VPN network, AWS control plane, backend infrastructure, and infrastructure-as-code tooling. Improve reliability, security, automation, observability, CI/CD, deployment safety, and cost efficiency across multiple providers. Troubleshoot production incidents, participate in 24/7 on-call, manage networking and VPN technologies, and replace manual operational processes with tested automation. Partner with engineering and product teams while ensuring high uptime, connection success, performance, and compliance.

Leads complex healthcare IT implementations for Intelerad’s InteleShare platform. Designs and deploys HL7/DICOM integrations, configures and validates enterprise systems, resolves advanced application and infrastructure issues, supports go-lives, delivers end-user training, and documents workflows and architecture changes. Partners with project managers, clients, and vendors to meet integration milestones. Also supports custom reports, SQL queries, migrations, workflow improvements, and post-implementation reviews. Travel up to 10% may be required.