Linux Platform Engineering, Automation, and Lifecycle Management

• Design, engineer, configure, and maintain enterprise Linux platform standards for RHEL and SUSE environments.

• Build and maintain automation using Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Python, Git, and CI/CD tooling.

• Develop repeatable patterns for provisioning, patching, configuration management, package deployment, access control, monitoring integration, and decommissioning.

• Own Linux OS lifecycle planning, including version currency, vendor supportability, patch compliance, firmware/driver dependencies, and upgrade roadmaps.

• Maintain and improve Linux images, templates, RPM/package standards, configuration baselines, and platform documentation.

• Evaluate and recommend platform improvements to increase scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.

Production Reliability, Observability, and Operations Engineering

• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex Linux platform incidents in a 24x7 production environment.

• Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and permanent remediation for recurring or high-impact issues.

• Define and maintain monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging, and operational health checks using tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Nagios, SolarWinds, or similar platforms.

• Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, tuning, and proactive risk remediation.

• Support disaster recovery planning, testing, documentation, and continuous improvement.

• Participate in on-call rotation and maintenance windows for critical platforms.

Security, Compliance, and Governance

• Engineer Linux platform baselines aligned to internal security standards, SOX, PCI-DSS, and audit requirements.

• Implement and maintain access controls, privileged access practices, encryption, logging, auditing, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance.

• Partner with cybersecurity and audit teams to remediate findings and provide evidence of control effectiveness.

• Improve security posture through standard hardening patterns, automated compliance checks, and remediation workflows.

Virtualization, Cloud, Storage, Backup, and Modernization

• Engineer and support Linux workloads running on private and public cloud.

• Engineer and support SAN/NAS, backup/recovery, and related storage services.

• Partner with cloud and application teams on migration, modernization, and hybrid-cloud enablement where appropriate.

• Support Linux integration with DNS, DHCP, SSO, LDAP/Active Directory, NTP, and other network services.

• Support cloud-native container, serverless and PaaS modernization initiatives

Technical Leadership, Managed Services Coordination, Standards, and Documentation

• Lead assigned Linux engineering projects from planning through implementation, communication, change execution, and post-change validation.

• Develop technical standards, diagrams, runbooks, implementation plans, operational procedures, and recovery documentation.

• Mentor administrators and junior engineers on Linux platform practices, automation, troubleshooting, and change discipline.

• Provide day-to-day technical guidance and work prioritization.

• Collaborate with application, database, security, cloud, infrastructure, vendor, and business teams to deliver stable and supportable solutions.

• Coordinate work with managed services providers and offshore engineering resources, ensuring alignment to service levels, operational priorities, quality standards, and defined processes.

• Manage handoffs, escalations, and cross-time-zone collaboration across hybrid onshore/offshore delivery models.

• Hold internal and external technical resources accountable for execution quality through clear expectations, feedback, governance, and adherence to change, incident, and problem-management practices.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• 10+ years of hands-on Linux engineering, systems engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering experience in enterprise production environments.
• Strong experience with RHEL and/or SUSE Linux in mission-critical environments.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills across OS, kernel, storage, networking, authentication, services, performance, and application dependencies.
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Bash, Python, Git, and CI/CD tooling.
• Strong understanding of vSphere or similar virtualization platforms, compute, server hardware, firmware, and lifecycle management.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational health tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Nagios, SolarWinds, New Relic, or similar.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NTP, LDAP/Active Directory integration, VPN, routing, firewall dependencies, and load-balancing concepts.
• Experience with enterprise storage and backup technologies, including SAN, NAS, RAID, NFS, CIFS, Veeam, NetBackup, Rubrik, or similar.
• Experience supporting security hardening, vulnerability remediation, access controls, auditing, and compliance requirements such as SOX and PCI-DSS.
• Ability to lead technical projects independently, develop implementation plans, communicate risks, execute changes, and drive issues to closure.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience working with managed services providers, including offshore technical delivery teams.
• Experience directing, coordinating, and overseeing offshore or external engineering resources to ensure alignment with service levels, operational standards, quality expectations, business priorities and cross-time-zone collaboration.
• Hands-on experience leading and mentoring junior engineers or administrators, including providing technical guidance, work prioritization, and day-to-day direction.
• Experience holding internal and external technical resources accountable through clear expectations, performance feedback, defined processes, and governance.

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