Linux Systems Specialist - Senior | Tier 3

Senior Linux Systems Specialist - External Support (Level 3) Crafty Penguins | Full-time, permanent | Remote within Canada Compensation: $90,000–$120,000 CAD estimated annualized total, depending on experience, demonstrated capability, and breadth of skills. Linux is the common denominator, not the boundary of the job Crafty Penguins is a Linux, Open Source, DevOps, and infrastructure consulting company. We help organizations operate, troubleshoot, secure, improve, and scale the systems their businesses depend on. Our customers and their environments are extraordinarily diverse. We support SaaS companies, financial institutions, industrial clients, embedded and appliance vendors, internet service providers, and other organizations. Their systems include traditional servers running Nginx and PHP-FPM, cloud and Kubernetes platforms, virtualization and storage, and specialized Linux appliances and embedded devices. Some customers have modern, well-automated infrastructure; others have unusual, older, or heavily customized systems that still need to work reliably. We're looking for a senior, client-facing Linux specialist who can navigate that variety. Someone with deep Linux fundamentals, strong networking knowledge, enough software literacy to investigate production applications, and the judgment to solve unfamiliar problems independently. This isn't a role limited to following runbooks, patching servers, or escalating every issue that crosses the line between infrastructure an