Linux Systems Engineer

The Clearing House • Charlotte, NC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Linux Systems Engineer responsible for engineering, building, supporting, securing, and maintaining large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server infrastructure in a highly available, 24x7 enterprise production environment. This role requires extensive hands-on RHEL experience, strong troubleshooting skills, and the ability to support complex distributed infrastructure across on-premises virtualization and AWS cloud environments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a large enterprise environment, including installation, configuration, upgrades, lifecycle management, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and production support.
• Strong understanding of cloud fundamentals, infrastructure provisioning, and enterprise cloud design patterns.
• Extensive experience with RHEL 8.x and 9.x on x86_64 platforms, including RHEL workloads hosted on VMware and AWS.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure dependencies, including SAN storage (Dell/EMC), TCP/IP networking, DNS, LDAP, Active Directory integration, and firewalls.
• Working knowledge of enterprise backup and recovery technologies, including Dell PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM).
• Experience provisioning, configuring, and supporting Linux virtual machines in VMware environments.
• Working knowledge of Linux authentication and identity integration with LDAP and Active Directory, as well as enterprise DNS services.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to create clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and perform planned maintenance or incident response during nights, weekends, and other off-hours as required.
• Demonstrated ability to work professionally and collaboratively with infrastructure, application, security, architecture, operations, and other enterprise technology teams.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting enterprise Linux workloads across VMware virtualization and AWS cloud environments.
• Experience with VMware infrastructure concepts, including virtual networking, VLANs, compute, storage, and virtual machine lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure and operating system issues using structured troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
• Experience with AWS services and cloud-based Linux infrastructure is preferred.
• Experience with Linux automation and scripting, such as Bash, Python, Ansible, or comparable tools.
• Experience with enterprise monitoring, performance management, vulnerability management, configuration management, and security tooling.
• Experience supporting environments governed by standards such as PCI DSS, ISO, or comparable control frameworks is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, implement, and support enterprise Red Hat Enterprise Linux server platforms across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Establish, implement, and maintain enterprise Linux engineering standards, including server build processes, configuration baselines, hardening standards, supported package levels, firmware, drivers, and lifecycle requirements.
• Collaborate with Information Security and Architecture teams to implement, validate, and maintain RHEL security hardening standards and configuration baselines.
• Integrate RHEL servers with enterprise infrastructure management and security platforms, including monitoring, endpoint security/anti-malware, file integrity monitoring, vulnerability management, backup, logging, and configuration management tools.
• Validate, test, deploy, and troubleshoot RHEL security patches and operating system updates in accordance with enterprise patching, change management, and vulnerability remediation requirements.
• Evaluate and test upgrades to operating systems, packages, drivers, firmware, microcode, and other server components before production implementation.
• Implement and validate Linux security configurations to meet enterprise security, regulatory, and audit requirements.
• Partner with Operations, Architecture, Security, application teams, and other infrastructure teams to maintain the current environment and design future-state Linux platforms and services.
• Participate in scheduled on-call coverage and provide after-hours support for production incidents, maintenance, upgrades, and critical infrastructure activities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior