Systems Engineer

ABOUT SLATE

At Slate were building safe reliable vehicles that people can afford personalize and loveand doing it here in the USA as part of our commitment to reindustrialization. The spirit of DIY and customization runs throughout every element of a Slate because people should have control over how their trucks look feel and represent them.

We are looking for a Systems Engineer to own and evolve our Linux server infrastructure container platforms and monitoring systems across both IT and operational technology environments. You will build automate and maintain the systems that keep our operations running - from datacenter VMs to the factory floor. This is a hands-on role for someone who is equally comfortable writing Ansible playbooks as they are racking hardware and troubleshooting production outages.

• Deploy configure and maintain RHEL and Rocky Linux servers across physical virtual and cloud environments.
• Build and manage containerized workloads using Docker including image lifecycle management compose stacks networking and persistent storage.
• Develop and maintain Ansible automation for provisioning configuration management patching and compliance enforcement across the server fleet.
• Administer Zabbix monitoring infrastructure - create and tune templates configure alerting build dashboards and ensure comprehensive observability of all critical systems.
• Manage virtualization platforms and supporting infrastructure including storage networking (VLANs firewalling) and backup/recovery.
• Provision and maintain AWS resources - manage EC2 instances RDS databases security groups and related cloud infrastructure.
• Maintain documentation and standard operating procedures for all managed systems.
• Participate in capacity planning change management and incident response.
• Collaborate with operations and engineering teams to support manufacturing and plant-floor technology needs.

Required:

• 3 years of hands-on experience administering RHEL-family Linux distributions (RHEL Rocky CentOS) in a production environment.
• Strong working knowledge of Docker - building images managing containers troubleshooting networking and working with compose and registries.
• Demonstrated experience writing and maintaining Ansible playbooks roles and inventories for infrastructure automation.
• Experience deploying and administering Zabbix (or a comparable enterprise monitoring platform such as Nagios LibreNMS or Prometheus/Grafana) including custom template development and alert tuning.
• Experience with AWS infrastructure - specifically EC2 instance management (provisioning security groups AMIs) and RDS administration (deployment backups parameter tuning).
• Solid understanding of Linux networking (iptables/nftables VLANs bonding/teaming DNS NTP) and storage (LVM ZFS NFS).
• Comfort working in the terminal - scripting in Bash is second nature.
• Familiarity with hardware lifecycle management: racking servers managing UPS/PDU infrastructure cabling and labeling.
• Strong troubleshooting methodology and the ability to work independently through ambiguous problems.

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Kubernetes (K8s) - cluster deployment pod management Helm charts or managed K8s services.
• Exposure to PLC (Programmable Logic Controller) environments and industrial/OT networking concepts.
• Experience with Inductive Automations Ignition platform (gateway administration module management or tag/scripting work).
• Experience with virtualization platforms such as Proxmox VMware or Hyper-V Kubernates.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools beyond Ansible (Terraform Packer).
• Relevant certifications (RHCSA/RHCE AWS Solutions Architect/SysOps CKA Docker DCA CompTIA Linux).

This role supports a mixed IT/OT environment including datacenter office and plant-floor systems. Occasional after-hours work for maintenance windows and on-call rotation should be expected. Some physical work (racking equipment running cable) is part of the job.

WHY JOIN TEAM SLATE

At Slate were fueled by grit determination and attention to detail. The start-up spirit of ingenuity and resourcefulness move our business forward. Team Slate fosters a culture of excellence innovation and mutual respect and is motivated by shared principles.

• Safety First

• Delight Customers

• One Team

• Relentless Improvement

• Fast Frugal and Scrappy

• Respectful Collaboration

• Positive Legacy

WE WANT TO WORK WITH PEOPLE THAT REFLECT THE COMMUNITIES IN WHICH WE OPERATE.

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