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SpyCloud

Data Processing Engineer

Austin, TX · On-site +1

$111K - $144K/yr

This is a local or remote role supporting a hybrid workforce with an expected 40 hours per week. Our Stack: * Python * Linux * Databases: Elasticsearch, SQL, Databricks * AWS (EC2, RDS, SQS, S3 ...

Apptronik

Senior Security Engineer - Data Platform

Austin, TX · On-site +1

$113K - $155K/yr

Secure Remote Access: Establish secure, auditable remote access solutions for engineers to ... Hands-on Linux systems engineering and networking experience. * Infrastructure as Code: Proficiency ...

Mondo

Sr DevOps Engineer T4

Austin, TX · Remote

$65 - $75/hr

Remote Start Date Is: ASAP Duration: 12 Month Contract (Potential Conversion After 1 Year ... Strong understanding of Linux administration * Knowledge of networking concepts including TCP/IP ...

Apple

System Infrastructure Developer

Austin, TX · On-site +1

$150K - $277K/yr

... Linux environment and process model Strong Perl scripting abilities Familiar with Environment ... in distributed remote management systems, such as LSF, SGE, or NC Implemented applications ...

Apple

System Infrastructure Developer

Austin, TX · On-site +1

$184K - $324K/yr

... Linux environment and process model Strong Perl scripting abilities Familiar with Environment ... in distributed remote management systems, such as LSF, SGE, or NC Implemented applications ...

Apple

System Infrastructure Developer

Austin, TX · On-site +1

$150K - $277K/yr

... Linux environment and process model Strong Perl scripting abilities Familiar with Environment ... in distributed remote management systems, such as LSF, SGE, or NC Implemented applications ...

Apple

System Infrastructure Developer

Austin, TX · On-site +1

$184K - $324K/yr

... Linux environment and process model Strong Perl scripting abilities Familiar with Environment ... in distributed remote management systems, such as LSF, SGE, or NC Implemented applications ...

Driver AI Inc.

DevOps Engineer

Austin, TX · Remote

$52.25 - $71.50/hr

Remote Company: Driver AI Type: Full-time Introduction At Driver, we're building systems that turn ... Manage and optimize Linux-based systems in production * Configure and troubleshoot networking (DNS ...

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How much do remote linux jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 11, 2026, the average hourly pay for remote linux in Austin, TX is $54.83, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $49.81 and $58.85 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What does a Remote Linux do?

As a Remote Linux professional, your daily tasks may include server provisioning, managing user accounts, monitoring system health, deploying software updates, and troubleshooting network or application issues. You may also work on automation projects using scripting languages or configuration management tools to streamline system operations. Collaboration is often virtual, so you'll join regular meetings, coordinate with development or DevOps teams, and document processes or incidents thoroughly. Depending on your employer, you may participate in on-call rotations or respond to urgent incidents to ensure uptime and security. This variety of responsibilities provides both technical challenges and opportunities for skill development in a dynamic environment.

What is a Remote Linux?

A Remote Linux job involves managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Linux-based systems from a remote location. Professionals in these roles may work as system administrators, DevOps engineers, or cloud engineers, ensuring server uptime, security, and performance. Common tasks include configuring servers, automating processes, and deploying applications. These jobs require expertise in Linux command-line tools, scripting languages, and networking. Many companies hire remote Linux professionals to support cloud environments, web servers, and enterprise systems.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive in the Remote Linux position, and why are they important?

To thrive in a Remote Linux role, you need a strong understanding of Linux system administration, shell scripting, networking concepts, and troubleshooting skills, often supported by a degree in computer science or relevant certifications such as CompTIA Linux+ or RHCSA. Proficiency with configuration management tools (like Ansible or Puppet), remote monitoring solutions, and cloud platforms is commonly required. Strong communication, self-motivation, and problem-solving abilities are key soft skills that help remote professionals excel. These skills ensure reliable system performance, efficient collaboration with distributed teams, and successful problem resolution in remote environments.

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Future Openings - SRE Support Engineer - Observability

Virtasant

Austin, TX • On-site, Remote

$56.50 - $75/hr

Full-time

Re-posted 2 hours ago

Job description

SRE Support Engineer - Observability
While this position is not currently open, we are interviewing strong candidates for upcoming opportunities on this team.
Location: Remote | Time Zone: (US, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico) (8AM-5PM Pacific)
Freedom to grow. Power to deliver.
Virtasant is a global technology services company delivering large-scale cloud, data, and engineering solutions across 130+ countries. We partner with some of the world's largest organizations to help them build, operate, and scale internal platforms used by tens of thousands of engineers.
For this role, you will be supporting one of the most advanced internal developer platforms in the world, powering products used by hundreds of millions of people. The problems you will solve are deep, complex, and essential to keeping a global-scale organization moving.
Role Overview
The Observability & Tools Support Engineer provides high-impact technical support for customers of a large technology company's internal IaaS platform, with a focus on monitoring, alerting, telemetry, and operational tooling.
This role spans a wide range of support-from white-glove onboarding and end-to-end customer enablement, to deep technical troubleshooting across Linux, networking, and observability systems (especially Prometheus and AlertManager). You will also contribute to improving the support function itself: strengthening tooling, documentation, workflows, and feedback loops so the service scales.
Success depends on excellent troubleshooting, strong written communication, comfort working with highly technical customers, and the maturity to identify patterns and drive operational improvements beyond individual ticket resolution.
Business Outcome
Become a trusted frontline expert for the customer's observability ecosystem and operational tooling - delivering fast, accurate support across Slack and tickets, improving monitoring reliability, and reducing incident impact through better triage, troubleshooting, onboarding, and knowledge capture.
Success Measures
  • Healthy volume of threads and tickets handled with high-quality outcomes
  • Consistent achievement of time-based SLAs
  • High customer satisfaction through surveys
  • Accurate classification of issue type, severity, and recurring patterns
  • Reduced repeat issues through better docs, tooling, and scalable onboarding
What Will Be True When You Succeed
  • Customers can onboard smoothly to monitoring/alerting with minimal friction
  • Monitoring and alerting issues are resolved quickly, with fewer escalations
  • Linux and networking-related incidents reach resolution faster due to strong troubleshooting and clean handoffs
  • Engineering and SRE teams receive clear, actionable feedback based on real customer trends
  • Knowledge base content prevents tickets and accelerates self-service
Core Work Units
1) Frontline Support for Observability & Tooling
  • Manage Slack threads and tickets (roughly 50/50)
  • Handle a broad range of customer support: simple issue resolution through end-to-end onboarding
  • Provide clear, structured guidance to highly technical customers
  • Maintain strong attention to detail while managing multiple interactions in parallel

2) Deep-Dive Troubleshooting & Incident Support
  • Troubleshoot, isolate, and resolve monitoring and alerting issues (especially Prometheus + AlertManager)
  • Troubleshoot complex Linux and networking issues (TCP/IP fundamentals required)
  • Support OpenTelemetry, tracing, and telemetry pipelines, including investigation of gaps in signals and instrumentation
  • Drive incidents to resolution in partnership with Engineering/SRE teams

3) Documentation & Knowledge Development
  • Build and maintain customer-facing and internal knowledge base articles
  • Create informational posts for the community support platform
  • Turn repeated issues into reusable guides, checklists, and onboarding playbooks

4) Trend Analysis & Feedback to Engineering
  • Analyze and categorize customer interaction trends
  • Provide accurate, meaningful feedback to Engineering and SRE orgs to improve product/tooling
  • Identify "top offenders" and propose practical fixes (tooling, docs, process, product)

5) Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement
  • Participate in post-mortem reviews and drive follow-through on improvements
  • Contribute meaningfully to team objectives and goals (process, tooling, and service scaling)
  • Bring creativity and discretion to resolve highly complex issues "outside the box"

High-Quality Work - what top performance looks like
Frontline Support
  • Moves smoothly from triage to deeper analysis without losing the customer
  • Communicates clearly and confidently with technical users
  • Maintains clean follow-ups and thread hygiene even with high context switching

Troubleshooting
  • Rapidly isolates issues across monitoring/alerting configs, Linux runtime behavior, and network connectivity
  • Uses structured approaches to incident handling: hypothesis → test → evidence → resolution
  • Produces high-signal writeups that accelerate downstream resolution

Documentation & Enablement
  • Documentation is clear enough that customers avoid opening tickets
  • Onboarding flows reduce time-to-value and prevent common misconfigurations
  • Captures "tribal knowledge" quickly and makes it reusable

Operational Excellence
  • Obsessing over details: correct severity, accurate tagging, clean timelines, strong handoffs
  • Spots patterns early and proactively proposes improvements that scale support

Typical Day / Work Patterns
  • ~50% Slack support, ~50% ticket handling
  • Deep-dive investigations during lower ticket volume periods
  • Documentation writing and lightweight tooling/process improvements when patterns emerge
  • Weekly team review of escalations, themes, and operational improvements
  • High rate of context switching and parallel issue management
Required Skills & Experience (Non-Negotiable)
  • Several years supporting highly scalable applications and web services
  • Hands-on experience with open-source observability and cloud-native tooling, including:
    • Kubernetes (and container fundamentals)
    • Prometheus and AlertManager troubleshooting
    • OpenTelemetry and distributed tracing concepts
  • Strong understanding of the Linux operating system (command line, process/network debugging, logs)
  • Good understanding of infrastructure observability principles (signals, alerting strategy, SLO thinking, noise reduction)
  • Good understanding of the TCP/IP suite and practical networking troubleshooting
  • Strong experience troubleshooting ambiguous, multi-layer issues
  • Excellent analytical capability and strong attention to detail
  • Strong written and verbal communication (clear, structured, customer-friendly)
  • Comfortable working with a very technical customer base
  • Passion for Technical Support and a service mindset
Nice-to-Haves
  • Experience improving or supporting internal support tooling or workflows (automation, templates, runbooks)
  • Experience operating at scale in a services environment (pattern detection, KPI/SLA awareness, operational process maturity)
  • Familiarity with Grafana, log aggregation, incident tooling, and production support practices
  • Prior SRE or platform support experience

Minimum Qualifications
  • 3-7+ years in Technical Support Engineering, SRE support, DevOps, Platform Support, or similar
  • Demonstrated experience supporting distributed systems, IaaS, or cloud platforms
  • Strong Linux, troubleshooting, and customer-facing communication background
  • Evidence of documentation, knowledge-base contributions, and process improvement mindset

Disqualifiers: weak Linux fundamentals, inability to troubleshoot systematically, poor written communication, or discomfort supporting highly technical users.
What You'll Love
  • Real technical problem solving with tangible customer impact
  • A role that blends deep troubleshooting with scaling support via docs, tooling, and process
  • High autonomy in a remote-first environment

What May Be Challenging
  • High context switching and managing multiple threads in parallel
  • Repeated patterns that require discipline to convert pain into scalable improvements
  • Supporting high-visibility systems where speed and accuracy matter

Differentiation
Industry: Remote-first, trust-based culture; global team; autonomy; modern systems; meaningful technical challenges
Internal: High-impact, customer-facing observability support; direct influence on tooling and process maturity; opportunity to shape scalable support practices
Our team Technology Operations Locations Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Canada, USA Remote status Fully Remote

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