Top Linux Jobs in Houston, TX

Improve AWS production infrastructure reliability, observability, performance, and operational maturity. Build Terraform infrastructure, enhance CI/CD, automate operational work, manage incident response and on-call operations, lead postmortems, improve application resilience, support capacity planning and database reliability, and collaborate on security hardening and compliance. Mentor engineers and promote reliability practices across the organization.

Supports and maintains production cloud infrastructure across Verint’s product portfolio. Responsibilities include troubleshooting incidents, provisioning environments, managing Windows and Linux systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP, supporting deployment pipelines, collaborating on client projects, documenting procedures, and contributing to infrastructure upgrades, security initiatives, monitoring, resiliency, and continuous improvement. The role also provides distributed 24/7 operational coverage.

Architects, deploys, and operates enterprise Kubernetes platforms across hybrid AWS and Azure environments. Manages containerized and virtualized workloads with KubeVirt, builds observability and DevSecOps capabilities, automates infrastructure using Terraform or Ansible, and implements Argo CD and Helm GitOps workflows. Leads cloud modernization, governance, security, and compliance initiatives; designs complex Kubernetes networking with Multus CNI and MetalLB; troubleshoots production networking issues; and provides technical leadership and mentoring.

Support high-priority issues for major Juniper Networks customers using MX, PTX, and ACX products. Diagnose and resolve complex routing, switching, and security problems across large IP networks, restore services, manage escalations, and build customer relationships. Collaborate with technical and service teams on knowledge transfer, product improvements, documentation, and customer communications. Maintain expertise in Juniper technologies and contribute to improved support quality and customer satisfaction.

Design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems for HPE private cloud products. Lead server provisioning and lifecycle integrations using BMC/Redfish, build orchestration services for compute and networking devices, and optimize L2/L3 networking functionality. Establish software architecture, security, quality, and DevOps practices; mentor engineers; troubleshoot distributed infrastructure issues; and document designs and procedures.

Installs, configures, secures, and maintains enterprise Linux infrastructure, virtualization platforms, identity and directory services, and cloud operations tools. Resolves escalated Level II and III support issues, supports patching, backups, monitoring, automation, containerization, and application distribution. Leads or supports major IT projects, documents procedures, mentors team members, and participates in on-call and after-hours support.

Supports applications engineering through embedded firmware and software development, customer issue debugging, lab setup, system bring-up, protocol and driver support, code updates, and technical documentation. The intern assists with SAS/SATA/NVMe, RAID, PCIe, security, encryption, operating systems, customer deliverables, compatibility testing, and root-cause analysis while collaborating with customers, partners, and internal teams.

Design, develop, and own core components of a Kubernetes-based private cloud AI platform. Build scalable Golang backend services and controllers, resolve complex issues across applications, Kubernetes, storage, and infrastructure, and drive CI/CD practices. Contribute to architecture, technology evaluation, code reviews, and mentoring while collaborating with product managers and engineering teams.

Develop Linux-based DMA platform drivers and low-level kernel drivers for FPGA and SoC architectures. Build and optimize embedded networking stacks for resource-constrained edge platforms, diagnose hardware-software integration issues, contribute to Linux kernel development, and deliver testing, benchmarking, documentation, and technical milestones in collaboration with hardware and cross-functional teams.

Own the developer infrastructure supporting a robotics software organization, including large-scale CI, reproducible builds, cross-compilation, release delivery, developer environments, fleet rollouts, observability, and hybrid cloud/on-prem infrastructure. The role also manages physical lab and deployment-site systems, offline-capable registries, networking, robot updates, and secure artifact provenance.

Build and scale ML-optimized HPC infrastructure, manage Kubernetes-based GPU/TPU superclusters, optimize for AI/ML training, and mentor teams while innovating in ML infrastructure.

Design, build, and operate an Azure-native platform using IaC (Terraform/Bicep), GitHub Actions, and GitOps. Automate Linux and Windows configuration (Ansible, Intune/Group Policy), create self-service golden paths, maintain baseline images, and ensure observability and compliance (SOX ITGC, NERC CIP) with policy-as-code and secrets management.

Evaluate and develop compute technologies for an advanced technology lab. Design and build compute environments for sandboxes, proofs of concept, and lab-as-a-service engagements. Create architectural diagrams, access guides, test plans, use cases, and technical designs. Collaborate with customers, sales, partners, and internal teams; support business development and marketing initiatives; maintain OEM partnerships; and achieve certifications required for partner status.

Owns the hardware lifecycle for GPU and infrastructure assets, including fleet health monitoring, vendor RMA workflows, firmware and BIOS upgrades, burn-in testing, failure investigation, inventory accuracy, capacity planning, spare-parts strategy, runbook creation, and new platform qualification. The role serves as the technical owner of physical compute platforms and supports high-density GPU infrastructure across sites.

Monitor GPUaaS infrastructure, triage alerts, execute runbooks, coordinate incident response, communicate with customers, manage maintenance windows, resolve Tier 1 tickets, and improve monitoring and operational procedures. The role provides 24/7 rotating coverage, including nights, weekends, and holidays, while maintaining shift handoffs and active-incident documentation.

Own and advance Yahoo’s enterprise Node.js development environment, including runtimes, packages, container images, internal integrations, and CI/CD workflows. Manage runtime lifecycles, security updates, dependencies, releases, testing, automation, and troubleshooting. Support GitHub Enterprise and GitLab Enterprise while integrating AI programming tools to improve developer productivity. Partner across engineering and security teams, and document platform changes, migrations, and deprecations.

Support NASA human spaceflight programs by developing software for spacecraft simulations and integrating with various systems. Requires strong problem-solving skills.

Manage and optimize a multi-account AWS environment supporting production healthcare applications and analytics platforms. Responsibilities include AWS infrastructure administration, CI/CD and infrastructure automation, observability, incident response, on-call support, disaster recovery validation, HIPAA/HiTrust compliance, IAM and security controls, and support for containerized Java and Python applications. The role also contributes to Kubernetes and EKS modernization initiatives and partners with developers to resolve complex production issues.

Owns the technical delivery and ongoing support of key customer accounts across AV, unified communications, video conferencing, and cloud collaboration platforms. Leads deployments, upgrades, troubleshooting, escalations, root-cause analysis, documentation, operational readiness, and service transitions. Partners with Sales, Customer Success, Program Management, Service Delivery, vendors, and customer engineering teams. Serves as a senior technical advisor, subject matter expert, and cross-functional leader while driving process improvements and platform administration.

Ensure stability and resilience of Runpod's distributed AI platform by defining SLIs/SLOs, leading incident response, building observability and reliability tooling, automating operational workflows, and partnering with engineering teams to reduce toil and improve production readiness.

Maintain and improve build and release processes across mobile, console, and PC platforms. Develop automation tools, support continuous integration, manage branches and environments, coordinate releases with Production and Live-Ops teams, enable automated testing, and document build pipelines. The role requires Perforce, scripting, build systems, CI, C++, and strong collaboration skills.

Lead technical engagements with hyperscaler customers, owning account strategy, solution design, validation, and delivery. Develop customer relationships, guide sales teams, provide product-development feedback, and manage RFIs, RFPs, demonstrations, proofs of concept, testing, network design, and simulation environments. Apply expertise in switching, routing, WAN, data center fabrics, and interconnect architectures while collaborating across Nokia teams and customer laboratories.

Leads software architecture, full-stack delivery, cross-product integration, and technical quality for ARAT mission systems. Owns classified-enclave deployment, secure GitLab CI/CD pipelines, STIG compliance, RMF and information-assurance coordination, and Windows Army Gold Master compatibility. Establishes shared UI architecture and accessibility standards, designs enterprise test-data platforms and analytics strategies, and governs hybrid cloud, network security, identity, and cross-domain distribution across NIPR, SIPR, and JWICS. Mentors engineers and advises the Government on technical, security, data, and cloud investments.

The Site Reliability Engineer II ensures the reliability, availability, performance, and security of critical cloud systems and services. Responsibilities include developing automation for provisioning and configuration management, maintaining monitoring and alerting, optimizing infrastructure performance, supporting high availability, and enabling continuous integration and delivery. The role collaborates with security teams and drives operational improvements across cloud and network infrastructure.

Designs and maintains automation scripts for network provisioning, application deployment, CI/CD integration, regression testing, and server monitoring. Deploys applications to WebLogic and JBoss, supports development-to-production transitions, and builds proactive alerting for server and application health using Python, Bash, and shell scripting.