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Linux System Administrator

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLCToronto, ON🇺🇸United StatesPosted 30 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

An established financial services organization is seeking an experienced Linux Systems Administrator to support and modernize a large-scale enterprise Red Hat environment that underpins critical customer-facing platforms. This role is suited to a Linux specialist with deep expertise managing thousands of Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers across hybrid infrastructure, including on-premises virtualization and Microsoft Azure.

You'll play a key role in improving platform stability, security, automation, and lifecycle management while partnering with Infrastructure, Cloud, Security, SRE, and Application teams. If you thrive in complex enterprise environments where Linux is a mission-critical platform, this is an opportunity to make a significant technical impact.

Required Skills & Experience
  • Extensive experience administering large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 7/8/9/10) environments, including enterprise patching, upgrades, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management across thousands of production systems.
  • Strong Linux automation experience using Red Hat Ansible, Python, Bash, GitHub, and configuration management practices to standardize and scale enterprise operations.
  • Proven experience supporting hybrid infrastructure running on VMware vSphere, Nutanix AHV, and Microsoft Azure IaaS, along with Red Hat Satellite, Active Directory integration (SSSD/Kerberos), ServiceNow, and ITIL service management.

Desired Skills & Experience
  • Experience supporting Linux infrastructure within financial services or other highly regulated environments, with knowledge of PCI DSS, CIS Benchmarks, and NIST security standards.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise security technologies including CyberArk PAS, CyberArk Conjur, Venafi, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Azure Arc, OpenSCAP, or Tripwire.
  • Exposure to enterprise observability, DevOps practices, and supporting technologies such as Dynatrace, CheckMK, container platforms, NFS, GlusterFS, and Postfix.

Daily Responsibilities
  • Hands-On Engineering: 75%
  • Team Collaboration & Cross-Functional Work: 25%

    You will receive the following benefits:

    Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

    Vacation Time

    Current Vacancy: Yes

    Use of AI in Hiring: No

    Applicants must be currently authorized to work in Canada on a full-time basis now and in the future.

    Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under Motion Recruitment's Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

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Skills

PCI DSS
Active Directory
Ansible
Azure
Bash
Python
VMware

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