Top Linux Jobs in Houston, TX

Provides system administration for Windows and Linux lab environments supporting NASA crewed spaceflight analysis. Responsibilities include managing wired and wireless networks, applying security updates, troubleshooting system issues, monitoring system health, assisting users, and developing operational best practices across multiple laboratories.

Leads development of resilient, scalable Java and Python services, enterprise integrations, and AI-assisted engineering practices. Architects microservices, Kubernetes deployments, messaging, observability, and backend infrastructure. Builds ML pipeline and feature-store capabilities for fraud and risk models, operationalizes models, and creates agentic AI services with production guardrails, monitoring, governance, and auditability. Mentors engineers, coordinates delivery across stakeholders, and ensures security, performance, testing, and operational requirements.

Own complex software systems and critical workflows end-to-end while ensuring reliability, performance, security, and maintainability. Lead architectural decisions, mentor engineers, manage incident response, improve system health, and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders. The role requires extensive Ruby on Rails, AWS or equivalent cloud infrastructure, Linux production operations, frontend development, relational databases, testing, CI/CD, and observability experience.

Develops and debugs firmware and systems software enhancements, executes testing protocols, troubleshoots issues, and collaborates with internal and outsourced engineering partners. The role supports reliable, cost-effective solutions for low- to moderately complex products and requires knowledge of Python, Rust, C/C++, Linux shell scripting, software design, testing, and debugging.

Develop and test systems software for HPE ProLiant servers, supporting OEM and service-provider customers. Responsibilities include debugging software issues, creating test plans and automation, testing beta servers, validating Linux compatibility in UEFI and Secure Boot modes, and collaborating with development teams, vendors, and product management on customer-requested features. The role also provides design recommendations for future server products and manages test execution and reporting.

Build and maintain NetBox Enterprise, an on-premises product suite. Responsibilities include architecting Kubernetes-based high-availability solutions, extending Kubernetes operators, developing lifecycle management tools, building CI/CD pipelines, managing releases, writing Rust and Python, supporting integration testing, documenting deployment practices, and resolving customer deployment and operational issues.

Leads SSD and HDD integration and qualification for HPE storage systems. Responsibilities include developing validation tests, managing supplier testing, analyzing NVMe and SAS bus traces, resolving field and factory issues, evaluating hardware designs, ensuring standards compliance, introducing new storage technologies, and mentoring engineers. The role requires strong Linux expertise, storage-device laboratory testing experience, electronic hardware architecture knowledge, and effective cross-functional communication.

The Systems Software Expert leads project teams in developing software systems, providing technical expertise, and mentoring less-experienced staff while ensuring compliance with design standards.

Lead and support reliability, performance, and operational integrity of equities electronic trading systems. Provide hands-on DevOps/SRE production support for FIX connectivity, Linux troubleshooting, Grafana observability, Kafka on AWS, incident triage, root cause analysis, automation via Python and Bash, and cross-team collaboration including investigating C++ components.

Design, build, monitor, and maintain large-scale Linux infrastructure supporting distributed S3-compatible object storage across multi-cloud environments. Responsibilities include kernel and storage optimization, network and hardware troubleshooting, automation with Chef or Ansible, observability, forecasting capacity, technical leadership, project coordination, mentoring, documentation, and on-call support.

Conduct HPC and scientific application benchmarking, optimize performance on HPE systems, analyze bottlenecks across compute, memory, accelerators, interconnects, MPI, and I/O, and provide technical guidance to sales, marketing, development, and customers. The role requires expertise in Linux-based HPC environments, parallel programming, performance analysis, GPU technologies, storage systems, and large-scale application scaling.

Administer and troubleshoot SLES, Ubuntu, and Windows servers supporting business-critical and development activities. Responsibilities include system maintenance, performance monitoring, security implementation, virtualization, AD/Samba and NFS interoperability, package installation, incident resolution, vendor coordination, documentation, training, and upgrade planning. The role provides technical guidance to developers and administrators and may require night or weekend project participation.

Conduct automated and manual testing of rugged computer systems, including hardware, software, operating systems, BIOS/UEFI, networks, and peripherals. Diagnose board- and component-level issues using schematics and electronic measurement tools, analyze performance data, document defects in JIRA, verify compliance with specifications and military requirements, and collaborate with engineering and manufacturing teams on root-cause analysis and corrective actions.

Own and develop HPC/GPU infrastructure for R&D and customer deployments. Design cross-platform CI/CD pipelines, manage on-premise and cloud Kubernetes clusters with GPU passthrough and MIG, configure self-hosted GitHub Actions runners, and maintain DockerHub registries. Assemble and tune physical GPU servers, manage PCIe topology and hardware constraints, and maintain compatibility across NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, and ROCm versions. Provide customer-facing technical assistance for GPU container deployments.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable hybrid multi-cloud Kubernetes platforms at massive scale. Ensure high reliability, integrate open-source observability tools, provide technical direction, operate large Linux environments across cloud and data centers, handle on-call duties, and mentor junior engineers.

Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure software (primarily in Go) to manage VMs across global data centers. Collaborate on product requirements, participate in code reviews, optimize performance and reliability, contribute to architecture decisions, and stay current with industry trends.

Lead design and prototyping of generative AI experiences for autonomy development; drive UX for Hivemind products; perform user research, collaborate with CTO and product leads, and deliver reference implementations and integrations across full-stack web and edge systems.

Provide advanced technical support for large MongoDB customers across the full MongoDB ecosystem (server, drivers, Atlas, Cloud Manager). Troubleshoot performance, architecture, recovery, security and storage issues end-to-end, develop support tools, mentor new hires, and liaise with product and engineering teams. Work EST shifts with a weekend shift expectation after ramp and participate in occasional off-hours coverage or regional events.

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll design and build complex systems, support Atlas platform operations, automate processes, and ensure high availability of services.

Build and maintain platform infrastructure, cloud services, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and developer tooling. Collaborate with senior engineers to improve scalability, reliability, automation, and developer experience. Participate in production operations, incident response, and retrospectives while contributing code, reviewing changes, supporting deployments, and progressively taking ownership of larger platform projects.

Diagnoses, repairs, configures, calibrates, and validates self-driving system hardware and software on autonomous vehicles. The role troubleshoots sensors, compute systems, connectivity, wiring, and vehicle networks; performs updates and calibration; documents findings; and confirms technical readiness before vehicles return to testing or robotaxi operations. The specialist collaborates with technicians, engineering, safety, depot, and fleet operations teams while following strict safety, quality, and documentation procedures.

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.

Operate and improve AWS GovCloud infrastructure for highly available, secure government systems. Responsibilities include SRE practices, incident response, Kubernetes and EKS administration, GitOps deployments with Helm and ArgoCD, Terraform automation, monitoring, security controls, compliance with FedRAMP and federal standards, change management, documentation, and cross-functional troubleshooting.

Leads infrastructure engineering strategy, modernization, project delivery, automation, and operational readiness across hybrid AWS, Azure, on-premises, networking, identity, Microsoft 365, and endpoint platforms. Establishes engineering standards, architecture patterns, security and resilience practices, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, monitoring, documentation, and support handoffs. Manages infrastructure projects, vendors, budgets, risks, and executive communications while leading, coaching, and developing an infrastructure engineering team.

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.