Sr Linux Administrator
Role Overview
Act as the primary escalation point for Linux issues across engineering, from routine to complex, and own first triage of incoming requests
Troubleshoot the daily reality of a mixed fleet: authentication and access, services, storage and filesystems, performance, and remote connectivity
Provision Linux hosts end-to-end against established procedures, from laptops and workstations to rack-mounted servers and lab systems
Own access and authentication operations and recurring fleet maintenance — patching, health checks, backup verification, and capacity management
Maintain the configuration management codebase with small, reviewed changes, freeing the senior engineering side of the team for architecture work.
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About the Team:
The IT team is responsible for the full scope of computing infrastructure, end-user systems, servers, virtualization, cloud, networking, software services, telecommunications, and information security. You’ll support every function across the company, from the production floor to flight operations, enabling Relativity’s world-class team to design, build, and launch rockets. The team balances near-term execution with long-term vision, developing scalable solutions and processes to enable the company's growth. The evolving complexity of our IT environment offers opportunities to stretch and sharpen problem solving and hands-on technical skills. We invest in our people, encouraging ownership, cross-training, and advancement, so our team can grow as fast and ambitiously as the company itself.
About the Role:
Act as the primary escalation point for Linux issues across engineering, from routine to complex, and own first triage of incoming requests
Troubleshoot the daily reality of a mixed fleet: authentication and access, services, storage and filesystems, performance, and remote connectivity
Provision Linux hosts end-to-end against established procedures, from laptops and workstations to rack-mounted servers and lab systems
Own access and authentication operations and recurring fleet maintenance — patching, health checks, backup verification, and capacity management
Maintain the configuration management codebase with small, reviewed changes, freeing the senior engineering side of the team for architecture work.
About You:
- 5+ years of hands-on Linux systems administration in production, owning fleet health rather than ticket-by-ticket task work
- Configuration management experience — reading, modifying, and debugging automation, not just running it — in an infrastructure-as-code model with peer review
- Medium-to-advanced troubleshooting across services, networking, storage, authentication, and performance, with the judgment to recognize when documentation runs out
- Enterprise directory services integration on Linux, credential and key management, and scripting proficiency
- Proven ability to be an escalation point for technical teams: triaging ambiguous reports and managing competing priorities without losing requests.
- Nice to haves but not required:
- You should still apply even if you don't have all of these!
- Automated bare-metal and VM provisioning at scale, with image and template management
- Precision time synchronization for test and measurement systems
- Kernel and driver-level depth: module management, hardware troubleshooting, or performance tuning
- Containerization, CI/CD, observability, or hardening to a published security baseline
- Aerospace, manufacturing, or test operations environments
- At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors. Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
- Hiring Range:$103,000—$155,000 USD
- We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].
- Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited submission - via email, our website, social media, or directly to an employee - will be deemed the property of Relativity Space, and no fee will be owed absent a current, fully executed agreement with Talent Acquisition that specifically authorizes submissions for the applicable role.
- At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
- Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
About Relativity Space
Aerospace manufacturer building 3D-printed rockets to provide dedicated launch services, pioneering additive manufacturing for the space industry.
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