Partner capability
Linux and Unix engineering, delivered under your brand
Most MSPs are excellent at Windows and thin on Linux. That gap costs deals, stalls tickets, and turns one senior engineer into a single point of failure. We become your Linux team — under your brand, in your tooling, with a written scope behind every engagement.
- RHEL, Ubuntu, Rocky, AlmaLinux, Debian, and SUSE
- CIS Benchmark hardening with documented exceptions
- End-of-life CentOS migrations with dependency mapping
- High-availability clustering and performance tuning
- Containers on Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes
- Legacy HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, and Oracle support
What we deliver
Managed Linux administration
Ongoing ownership of the Linux estate your Windows team would rather not carry, under a defined coverage window.
- Patch management with tested rollback paths and scheduled maintenance windows
- Proactive monitoring, alert triage, and root-cause investigation
- Kernel, package, and repository lifecycle management across mixed distributions
- Performance tuning — I/O, memory pressure, filesystem, and network stack
- On-call escalation for production incidents outside your bench hours
Hardening and compliance baselines
Turning a default install into something that survives a customer security questionnaire or an insurance renewal.
- CIS Benchmark-aligned configuration baselines applied and documented
- SSH, sudo, PAM, and privilege model review with least-privilege remediation
- SELinux and AppArmor policy work instead of the usual "set it to permissive"
- Auditd configuration and log forwarding into your SIEM
- Remediation evidence packaged for the auditor or the underwriter
Build, migration, and modernization
Standing up new estates and getting old ones off end-of-life platforms without a rewrite.
- Golden image and provisioning pipeline design for repeatable builds
- CentOS and end-of-life distribution migrations to Rocky, RHEL, or Ubuntu LTS
- Physical-to-virtual and virtual-to-cloud Linux workload moves
- High-availability clustering, load balancing, and failover validation
- Container platform work — Docker, Podman, and Kubernetes on EKS or AKS
Legacy Unix your bench has never touched
The systems that are still running the business and have outlived everyone who understood them.
- HP-UX administration, vPar conversions, and hardware refresh planning
- Oracle database standby, backup, and managed availability work
- Solaris and AIX support during transition and decommissioning
- NetBackup and legacy backup platform administration
- Documented migration paths off unsupported hardware and operating systems
Platforms we work in
Named platforms, not categories — so you can tell at a glance whether we already know your environment.
- Distributions
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- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Ubuntu LTS
- Rocky Linux
- AlmaLinux
- Debian
- SUSE
- Amazon Linux
- Legacy Unix
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- HP-UX
- Solaris
- AIX
- Oracle
- Containers & orchestration
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- Docker
- Podman
- Kubernetes
- EKS
- AKS
- Automation
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- Ansible
- Bash
- Python
- systemd
- Cloud-init
- Hardening
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- CIS Benchmarks
- SELinux
- AppArmor
- auditd
- OpenSCAP
- Availability
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- Pacemaker
- Corosync
- DRBD
- HAProxy
- keepalived
How it runs
From first call to sign-off
Every engagement is governed by a written statement of work naming deliverables, assumptions, and who is responsible for what.
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Scoping call with the engineer
You describe the estate — distributions, counts, what is broken, what the client expects. No discovery-call sales layer.
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Written statement of work
Deliverables, assumptions, client responsibilities, and hours, in the same structure we use on enterprise engagements. You price the job from a fixed number.
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Access and discovery
We work through your remote access, in your ticketing system, under your brand. Discovery output becomes documentation you keep.
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Delivery and handover
Work executed inside agreed maintenance windows, then as-built documentation, runbooks, and a knowledge-transfer session for your team.
Questions
What people ask
Linux and Unix engineering, delivered under your brand — questions
Can you cover Linux under our existing RMM and ticketing?
Yes. We work inside your tools rather than asking your client to adopt ours — your PSA, your RMM, your documentation platform. If a monitoring gap needs filling for Linux specifically, we will tell you what is missing and configure it in the stack you already own.
Do you handle end-of-life CentOS migrations?
Regularly. The usual path is CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux or RHEL for shops that want a drop-in replacement, or Ubuntu LTS where the workload is already container-oriented. We inventory application dependencies first, because the migration itself is rarely the part that breaks.
What does CIS hardening actually involve?
We apply a CIS Benchmark-aligned baseline, then work through the exceptions — because a benchmark applied blindly will break production. You get the applied configuration, a documented list of deviations with business justification, and evidence in a form an auditor or cyber insurer will accept.
Is there a minimum engagement?
For project work, the statement of work defines the minimum. For ongoing support, most partners start with a prepaid block of hours, which carries no monthly commitment, and move to a retainer once the volume is predictable.
Can you support HP-UX or Solaris?
Yes, and this is unusual enough to be worth stating plainly. We have delivered HP-UX vPar conversions, NetBackup administration, and Oracle standby work on legacy Unix within the last several years. If your client has a system nobody will touch, it is worth a call.
Send us the Linux ticket you have been avoiding
Describe the environment and what the client is asking for. You will get a straight answer on scope, timeline, and whether it is worth doing at all.