Sr. Linux Red Hat Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

The Sr. Linux Red Hat Infrastructure Engineer will design, engineer, and support enterprise Red Hat Linux environments across physical, virtual, and cloud platforms. They will lead installation, configuration, maintenance, and lifecycle management of Red Hat systems, architect and maintain highly available, secure, and scalable Linux solutions, and partner with security teams to enforce hardening standards, vulnerability remediation, compliance requirements, and audit readiness.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and support enterprise Red Hat Linux environments (RHEL) across physical, virtual, and cloud platforms.
• Lead installation, configuration, maintenance, and lifecycle management of Red Hat systems, including OS upgrades, patching, and decommissioning.
• Architect and maintain highly available, secure, and scalable Linux solutions supporting business-critical workloads.
• Implement and maintain automation using tools such as Ansible / Ansible Automation Platform, scripting (Bash, Python), and configuration management best practices.
• Administer and integrate Red Hat ecosystem components such as Red Hat Satellite, Insights, and subscription management.
• Partner with security teams to enforce hardening standards, vulnerability remediation, compliance requirements, and audit readiness (e.g., CIS, STIG, SOX, PCI).
• Troubleshoot complex OS, performance, storage, network, and application-related issues; perform root cause analysis and implement preventative controls.
• Support virtualization and containerized platforms (e.g., VMware, KVM, OpenShift, Kubernetes) as they relate to Linux workloads.
• Participate in on-call rotations and provide advanced-level incident response and problem management.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, operational runbooks, and standard operating procedures.
• Serve as a senior advisor and escalation point for Linux-related matters across IT teams.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior engineers; promote standards, automation, and best practices.
• Contribute to infrastructure modernization initiatives, including cloud/hybrid adoption, automation, and platform optimization.

Requirements

• 7+ years of hands-on experience administering enterprise Linux environments, with strong focus on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Deep expertise in Linux system internals, performance tuning, networking, filesystem management, and troubleshooting.
• Proven experience with automation and configuration management (Ansible strongly preferred).
• Strong scripting skills (Bash required).
• Experience supporting Linux in large-scale, production enterprise environments.
• Solid understanding of security hardening, patch management, and compliance frameworks.
• Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware, KVM) and exposure to containers and Kubernetes/OpenShift environments.
• Ability to lead complex technical efforts and work independently with minimal supervision.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.

Qualifications

• Python for scripting.
• Red Hat Certifications (RHSA, RHCE).
• IBM AIX administration.
• Experience with Cloud Platforms.

Skills

• Python for scripting.
• Red Hat Certifications (RHSA, RHCE).
• IBM AIX administration.
• Experience with Cloud Platforms.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance.
• 401k, With Matching Contributions.
• Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance.
• Health Savings Account (HSA)/Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) Options.
• Paid Time Off.
• Tuition Reimbursement.
• Growth Opportunities.

Pay

Annual Hiring Range/Hourly Rate: $121,300.00 - $135,999.60

Schedule

Hybrid: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday required office days for Panorama Office site; Monday, Friday-work from home.