Top Remote Linux Jobs in Houston, TX

Designs and maintains network automation, Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, orchestration, and compliance solutions across enterprise and data center environments. Integrates networks with monitoring, CMDB, ITSM, and source-of-truth platforms; develops reusable frameworks, workflows, and libraries; mentors technical teams; supports DevOps, troubleshooting, documentation, and continuous improvement. The role also contributes to technical standards, cross-functional projects, planning sessions, site visits, and vendor engagements.

Administer SaaS applications, identity systems, MDM, endpoints, and IT infrastructure while providing Tier 3 support. Automate workflows, improve processes, manage onboarding and offboarding, design technical solutions, and support distributed macOS, Linux, and Windows users. The role also mentors junior engineers and partners across the company on hardware, software, networking, and conferencing solutions.

Designs, implements, and supports secure, scalable AWS and Azure infrastructure. Develops reusable Terraform and Ansible automation, CI/CD capabilities, and cloud infrastructure services. Configures cloud compute, storage, networking, databases, identity, security, monitoring, and backup solutions. Troubleshoots infrastructure and hosting issues, maintains technical and compliance documentation, and collaborates with customers and engineering teams using Agile and DevOps practices.

Architects end-to-end telecom solutions using Nokia and third-party technologies, translating customer requirements into scalable designs. Advises stakeholders, supports presales, identifies sales opportunities, develops delivery models, and manages system integration project execution. The role also leads junior consultants and project teams, coordinates resources, and designs and deploys IMS Core and cloud SBC solutions.

Designs, deploys, secures, and operates enterprise and service-provider networks across on-premises, colocation, and cloud environments. Manages routing, switching, peering, addressing, firewalls, VPNs, monitoring, automation, capacity planning, and incident response. Maintains documentation and compliance evidence, serves as a technical escalation point, mentors junior engineers, and works directly with customers. The role is remote, includes occasional travel, and requires on-call and after-hours maintenance participation.

Design and build Go-based control-plane services, CSI drivers, and tooling for high-performance storage integrated with Kubernetes AI and compute workloads. Develop declarative Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps automation, telemetry, and observability systems. Support bare-metal, hybrid, air-gapped, and sovereign deployments using Kubernetes, Cluster API, Harbor, and PKI/TLS. Integrate enterprise and scale-out storage platforms while addressing throughput, latency, reliability, consistency, and scaling.

Develop and maintain backend features for Cribl Edge data collection agents running across Windows, Linux, and macOS. Design scalable, reliable software for hundreds of thousands of nodes, collaborate with product and UX teams, write automated tests, troubleshoot production issues, and support SaaS products through on-call rotations. The role requires TypeScript and Node.js development, cloud and container experience, operating-system knowledge, and experience with data-intensive applications or stream processing.

Designs, deploys, maintains, and troubleshoots resilient infrastructure supporting Oracle Utilities software for clients. Responsibilities include Linux server configuration, networking, firewalls, VPNs, hardware and software tuning, connectivity troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, process improvement, metrics, client communication, technical support, and on-call incident response. Preferred work includes WebLogic administration, virtualization, backup systems, Oracle Database administration, Active Directory, DNS, and Microsoft Office support. The role is remote within the United States with occasional travel for go-lives, incidents, and data center work.

Design, develop, operate, and improve Netflix’s internet-scale managed compute infrastructure. The role involves building distributed systems and Kubernetes-based services, balancing customer usability with reliability, scalability, and cost efficiency. Responsibilities include collaborating with Product and stakeholders, leading cross-functional infrastructure initiatives, mentoring engineers, maintaining operational excellence, improving incident response and on-call practices, and evaluating emerging cloud and compute technologies.

Assess, design and improve AWS/Azure cloud environments for security, cost, networking, storage, serverless and containerized deployments. Provide L2+ incident support, create SOPs, mentor junior staff, support Linux/Windows servers, document architecture, participate in governance/change processes, and join a 24/7 on-call rotation.

Build and maintain test automation, performance testing and analysis tooling for a distributed database (primarily in Python). Collaborate with stakeholders to create reproducible tests, extend developer tooling, and produce documentation and runbooks for maintainers and developers.

Lead the on-vehicle autonomy team to design, build, integrate, and field autonomy software for autonomous surface vessels. Own navigation, planning, control, behaviors, safety logic, and autonomy execution; drive architecture, testing, simulation, HIL, field deployments, and cross-functional integration while mentoring engineers and ensuring mission-ready, maintainable autonomy systems.

Design and operate large-scale GPU infrastructure for distributed AI training, ensuring reliability, performance, and efficient customer partnerships.

Design and document resilient, secure IT infrastructure for classified environments across compute, storage, virtualization, and archival systems. Advise engineering and support teams, lead technical meetings, support proposals and reviews, and ensure compliance with RMF/NIST/DoD frameworks and identity/access controls.

Lead design, build, and maintenance of scalable, secure blockchain participation and custody infrastructure. Improve automation, monitoring, incident response, and observability; debug distributed protocols; inform leadership strategy; scope product opportunities; and support on-call reliability and deployment automation.

Design, develop, test, and operate scalable infrastructure and services for Akamai Cloud. Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and similar tools), CI/CD, and observability. Automate reliability improvements, mentor engineers, collaborate on incident response and root-cause remediation, and participate in on-call rotations.

Build and operate Nebius's network infrastructure: define SLIs/SLOs, improve site and inter-site reliability, lead incident response and postmortems, develop observability and alerting, automate change workflows, and collaborate with network and platform teams to embed operability.

Support and operate customer-facing iLottery and loyalty platforms with focus on Kubernetes (on-prem and cloud), GitOps-driven CI/CD (ArgoCD), container management, observability (Graylog, New Relic, ELK, Prometheus/Grafana), infrastructure automation (Ansible, Terraform), incident response, SLOs, capacity/resiliency planning, security remediation, documentation, and 24x7 on-call support.

Lead architecture and delivery of enterprise DDI solutions (Infoblox-focused) including migrations, upgrades, re-architecture, and lifecycle engineering. Produce design artifacts, testing and cutover plans, and guide long-term DDI strategy. Support pre-sales with demos, discovery, POCs, solution design, and RFP/RFI responses while partnering with Account Executives to capture new business.

Design, run, and improve CI/CD systems and developer workflows for a Kubernetes-based polyglot monorepo. Build fast, reliable pipelines, local-to-prod developer paths, observability for builds, and partner with product teams to raise release quality and delivery velocity.

Design, build, and operate secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and platform capabilities. Implement IaC, improve CI/CD, observability, and automation. Lead incident response, reliability, and DevSecOps practices. Mentor engineers, drive platform standardization, document runbooks, and participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation to support production systems and remediation of systemic infrastructure issues.

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.

Designs, deploys, integrates, monitors, maintains, and troubleshoots storage and IT infrastructure, including SAN, NAS, object storage, VMware, networking, backups, and disaster recovery systems. Implements automation, security controls, patches, and system upgrades while maintaining documentation and compliance. Collaborates with cross-functional teams, participates in incident response and recovery planning, supports system rollouts, and mentors junior engineers. Requires occasional after-hours work and on-call availability for critical incidents.

Design and deliver large-scale, cloud-native and AI-enabled Kubernetes/AKS solutions. Implement, optimize, and maintain Kubernetes components and container orchestration across Azure, on-prem, and edge. Integrate AI capabilities, participate in on-call rotations, mentor engineers, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve reliability, observability, performance, and operational consistency at scale.

Leads the Infrastructure Services team of Solution Engineers and Solutions Architects delivering AI/HPC infrastructure solutions. Oversees customer engagements from pre-sales architecture and proof-of-concept execution through deployment, benchmarking, and operations. Acts as the senior technical escalation point, partners with Sales, Product, and Engineering, guides performance optimization, develops deployment processes, manages technology partnerships, creates technical content, and recruits and mentors team members.