Systems Engineer

About the role

Slate is seeking a hands‑on Systems Engineer to own and evolve its Linux server infrastructure, container platforms, and monitoring systems across both IT and operational technology environments. You will work on everything from datacenter virtual machines to factory‑floor hardware, ensuring reliable operations for our affordable, customizable trucks.

Key responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain RHEL and Rocky Linux servers in physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Build and manage Docker‑based workloads, including image lifecycle, compose stacks, networking, and persistent storage.
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks for provisioning, configuration management, patching, and compliance.
• Administer Zabbix monitoring: create templates, tune alerts, build dashboards, and ensure observability.
• Manage virtualization platforms, storage, networking (VLANs, firewalls), and backup/recovery solutions.
• Provision and maintain AWS resources such as EC2 instances and RDS databases.
• Document systems, SOPs, and participate in capacity planning, change management, and incident response.
• Collaborate with operations and engineering teams to support manufacturing and plant‑floor technology needs.

Required profile

• 3+ years of hands‑on experience administering RHEL‑family Linux distributions in production.
• Strong knowledge of Docker, Ansible, and enterprise monitoring platforms (Zabbix or equivalents).
• Proven experience with AWS EC2 and RDS management.
• Solid understanding of Linux networking, storage, and hardware lifecycle management.

Required skills

• RHEL, Rocky Linux, CentOS
• Docker (image building, compose, registries)
• Ansible (playbooks, roles, inventories)
• Zabbix (or Nagios, Prometheus/Grafana)
• AWS EC2, AWS RDS
• Linux networking: iptables/nftables, VLANs, bonding/teaming, DNS, NTP
• Linux storage: LVM, ZFS, NFS
• Bash scripting
• Virtualization platforms, storage, backup/recovery