Top Linux Jobs in Houston, TX

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.

Own production reliability across cloud environments by defining SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, observability practices, and actionable dashboards. Troubleshoot incidents, perform root cause analysis, manage capacity planning, and improve service performance and availability. Build automation to reduce toil, support release management, maintain runbooks, and collaborate with engineering teams on operational readiness. Manage tools including Datadog, Prometheus, and Grafana while advancing monitoring, logging, metrics, tracing, and reliability practices.

Analyze Linux system performance, design and implement performance enhancements, productize new servers and hardware, extend performance metrics and visualizations, and build diagnostic tooling. The role requires advanced C programming, Linux kernel expertise, virtualization knowledge, hardware enablement and debugging experience, performance analysis skills, and understanding of computer architecture, concurrency, algorithms, and hardware interconnects.

Design, implement, and maintain MEMX’s low-latency trading network infrastructure. Configure network devices using Ansible and Python, monitor alerts, resolve incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and support customer connectivity turn-ups and tickets. Analyze and validate new products, implement secure end-user solutions with security teams, and coordinate with data center and circuit providers. The role requires expertise in distributed systems, routing protocols, multicast, network operating systems, timing protocols, packet analysis, firewalls, and optical networking.

Develop and prototype 5G network solutions, automate and improve software development tools and environments, and help design, build, and maintain development verification labs. The role requires programming across Python, JavaScript, Bash, C/C++, and Go, along with Git, Linux, debugging, and Agile/Scrum knowledge. Work supports Nokia’s satellite-based LTE and 5G networking products.

Develop and maintain secure, highly available public and private cloud infrastructure using automation, Infrastructure as Code, Kubernetes, Puppet, and deployment pipelines. Responsibilities include cloud architecture, IAM, networking, scripting, containerization, monitoring, troubleshooting, disaster recovery, security collaboration, and on-call support. The role also mentors engineers, researches emerging technologies, and partners with DevOps and Basis teams to support cloud-based applications.

Own enterprise deployments of Qodo’s Kubernetes-based platform in customer-managed AWS, GCP, and Azure environments. Install, configure, upgrade, troubleshoot, and optimize infrastructure, writing Python or Bash diagnostics and codifying repeatable processes with Terraform and Helm. Partner directly with customer engineering teams, resolve complex networking and access issues, maintain PostgreSQL and Redis infrastructure, and improve deployment reliability through automation and documentation.

Provides senior-level technical support for enterprise customers using Aviatrix’s multicloud networking and security products. Responsibilities include troubleshooting complex network environments, resolving high-priority issues, coordinating with engineering and sales, reporting product issues, improving support documentation and workflows, supporting production environments, and mentoring cloud network engineers. The role requires expertise in routing, BGP, IPsec VPN, Linux, networking products, cloud platforms, scripting, and automation.

Lead the evolution of cloud-native infrastructure by architecting and scaling AWS EKS clusters, standardizing Helm deployments, managing Terraform and Terragrunt infrastructure, optimizing cloud costs, and improving observability, reliability, security, and access controls. The role leads cross-team engineering initiatives, establishes DevOps best practices, and mentors engineers while supporting GitOps workflows and scalable application delivery.

Build, operate, and scale production Kubernetes infrastructure using GitOps and declarative IaC. Design CI/CD workflows, observability, and secure-by-default systems. Troubleshoot networking/storage, participate in on-call rotations, automate operational workflows, and drive postmortems and reliability improvements.

Designs, builds, and operates AWS cloud infrastructure, including GovCloud environments, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, containers, IAM, monitoring, disaster recovery, and self-service tooling. The role serves as an AWS architecture escalation point, supports Azure and Microsoft 365 workloads, improves platform security and reliability, guides junior engineers, and communicates project status to stakeholders.

Develop and lead production software-defined networking for NVIDIA’s global GPU cloud infrastructure. Design multi-tenant control and data planes using Open vSwitch, OVN, OpenFlow, Kubernetes, C, and Go. Build networking services, plugins, automation, testing, observability, and reliability improvements. Lead architecture and code reviews, mentor engineers, support on-call operations, and resolve complex production incidents through diagnostics and source-level debugging.

Provides day-to-day database administration and on-premises platform infrastructure support. Responsibilities include database monitoring, patching, upgrades, backup and recovery, query performance optimization, security access management, and administration of Redis, MinIO, Kafka, Windows, and Linux environments. The role also supports CI/CD pipeline operations, troubleshooting, documentation, and platform service maintenance.

Administer databases and on-premises platform services, including monitoring, patching, upgrades, backups, recovery, performance tuning, security, and access management. Maintain Redis, MinIO, Kafka, Windows Server, and Linux environments; support CI/CD operations; troubleshoot infrastructure and database issues; and document configurations and procedures.

Architect and refine scalable cloud infrastructure software for enterprise and internet-scale environments. Responsibilities include developing robust software, designing systems supporting 1,000+ nodes, optimizing performance, and collaborating with distributed technical teams in agile environments.

Provides system-level administration and technical support for multi-user operating systems, hardware, software, networks, and enterprise applications. Responsibilities include installation, configuration, troubleshooting, upgrades, user access management, inventory and licensing, system security, documentation, technical research, cross-functional requirements gathering, and user training. Supports Windows, Windows Server, networking infrastructure, ERP systems, backup applications, and related enterprise platforms.

Provides system administration and infrastructure support across operating systems, hardware, software, networking, and enterprise applications. Installs, configures, troubleshoots, maintains, and upgrades systems; manages user access, security, inventories, licensing, backups, and connectivity. Conducts technical research, documents resolutions, supports continuous improvement, collaborates with cross-functional technical teams, and provides user training. Requires Windows and Windows Server expertise, networking knowledge, strong troubleshooting skills, and a bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Design, build, and maintain Python backend services and internal APIs for high-traffic hosting platforms. Administer Linux production systems, optimize MySQL queries and schemas, troubleshoot incidents, and participate in on-call rotation. Collaborate with senior engineers and cross-functional teams to deliver tested features, modernize legacy Perl systems, and contribute to technical design decisions. Apply AI responsibly throughout development, debugging, testing, and code review.

Provides technical leadership for Bluehost’s large-scale hosting platform. Sets architecture standards, designs Python and MySQL backend systems on Linux, modernizes Perl and cPanel integrations, and drives reliability engineering practices. Leads complex incident root-cause analysis, establishes AI-augmented delivery standards, mentors senior engineers, and shapes multi-quarter technical roadmaps across the organization.

Staff Software Engineer responsible for shaping technical strategy and architecting automation systems for package creation, testing, and container image builds. The role involves developing production Go, AI- and LLM-powered developer tooling, quality frameworks, CLIs, and scalable services. Responsibilities include mentoring engineers, influencing roadmaps, improving reliability, and collaborating across distributed teams. Candidates need strong systems architecture, Linux, build systems, container ecosystem, and developer tooling experience, with familiarity in software supply chain security preferred.

Build and maintain automation systems for package creation, testing, and container image generation. Develop Go-based CLI tools, services, and integrations, along with AI- and LLM-powered pipelines for manifest generation, test scaffolding, and validation. Create quality tooling, evaluation loops, and security gates while contributing to system architecture and roadmap planning. Collaborate with distributed engineering teams across North America, Europe, and India.