Linux Team Lead

Skyline Technology Solutions, LLC•Glen Burnie, MD

8d•$120,000 - $150,000

About The Position

This role with our Central Operations team provides direct ownership of the Linux infrastructure, the automation practice, and the day-to-day direction of two engineers on your team. You will work directly alongside the Central Operations Manager as a technical leadership partner, helping shape how the team operates, where it can improve, and how it delivers support to internal teams and external stakeholders. The systems you support underpin transportation and public safety operations that require reliable infrastructure.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
5 or more years of advanced Linux system administration in an enterprise or managed services environment
Strong scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, or both
Experience with Ansible for configuration management and automation
Familiarity with CMDB practices and configuration tracking
Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking, routing, and firewall concepts
Working knowledge of Grafana, OpenNMS, and Zabbix
Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu
KVM virtualization Experience
Experience with CloudStack administration and cloud orchestration
Kubernetes administration experience
Experience with Linux security hardening and compliance practices
Comfort leading a small team and driving process adoption

Nice To Haves

Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) preferred
ITIL Foundation preferred

Responsibilities

Develop and improve operational tooling, workflows, and automation that reduce manual effort and improve the reliability and scalability of day-to-day systems operations.
Define and drive GitOps adoption across the entire Operations team, building the habits and tooling required.
Use Ansible as the primary configuration management tool, including playbook and role development, inventory management, and automated remediation workflows.
Bash and Python scripting to build out the broader automation practice, covering system deployment, scheduled validation runs, and testing against defined baselines.
Administer and tune KVM and CloudStack environments to meet performance and capacity needs.
Work alongside the Skyline Platform Team to support Kubernetes environments as a secondary resource.
Own and improve the CMDB practice end to end, from automated discovery, auditing and validation through change tracking and reporting.
Storage architecture awareness and backup support for our storage team.
Maintain a working understanding of storage architecture and how different storage types interact with the systems you support.
Ongoing improvement of monitoring and alerting practices to support early detection of issues before they become service-impacting. This means building toward meaningful coverage, well-tuned alerts, and monitoring standards that reduce noise and surface what matters.
Ensure telemetry is high quality, consistent, and operationally useful across environments through the development and refinement of dashboards, alerts, and supporting configurations.
Partner with stakeholders to review observability needs, improve visibility into system and service health, and translate operational requirements into effective monitoring solutions.
Support the ongoing maintenance, enhancement, and reliability of observability systems that serve both internal operational needs and broader engineering use cases.
Define tasking and support for the two engineers on your team.
Serve as a mentor, escalation point, and peer reviewer for the broader Operations team, with a focus on automation practices and configuration management.
Develop and maintain clear operational documentation, including runbooks, standards, and implementation guidance for automation and observability systems.