Linux Engineer

Location: Boise, ID - Onsite

Duration: 6+ MonthsAbout the RoleWe are seeking a Linux Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain the Linux-based systems that power our engineering, manufacturing, and data infrastructure environments. You will work across hardware bring-up, server administration, and automation to ensure our Linux platforms are stable, secure, and performant, while partnering closely with firmware, validation, and IT operations teams.

Responsibilities: Administer and support Linux server and virtualization environments, including installation, configuration, patching, and lifecycle management across production and lab systems. Perform OS bring-up, driver validation, and storage-stack verification on new hardware platforms, including debugging issues that span applications, kernel, drivers, and hardware/software interfaces. Develop and maintain automation and configuration-management tooling (such as Shell, Python, and Ansible) to reduce manual effort and standardize deployments. Monitor system health and performance, review logs, perform trend analysis, and proactively resolve issues to minimize downtime and repeat incidents. Support networking and storage fundamentals, including TCP/IP, name resolution, SAN/NAS, and enterprise backup environments. Collaborate with firmware, hardware, and product engineering teams to troubleshoot system-level issues, including root-cause analysis of complex Linux environment failures. Participate in change management processes, including planning, risk assessment, testing, documentation, and rollback planning for system changes. Contribute to building and improving automated test and validation frameworks for Linux-based systems. Document procedures, configurations, and troubleshooting runbooks to support knowledge sharing across teams. Participate in a rotational on-call schedule to support critical system availability.

Required Skills: Hands-on experience administering Linux systems, including system setup, OS installation, and troubleshooting. Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language such as Python or Shell for automation and tooling. Working knowledge of Linux internals, including processes, file systems, and system configuration. Basic understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, directory services) and enterprise storage environments.

Preferred Skills: Experience with configuration-management tools such as Ansible. Familiarity with Linux kernel debugging tools and techniques (e.g., GDB, /proc and /sys filesystems, strace).Experience with version control, CI/CD pipelines, or infrastructure-as-code practices. Exposure to storage protocols such as NVMe or PCIe, or to firmware/hardware validation workflows. Experience in a semiconductor, manufacturing, or large-scale data center environment.