Senior RHEL Engineer / Team Lead

Trilogy Innovations•Vancouver, WA

2d•$160,000 - $188,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Trilogy Innovations is seeking a Senior RHEL Engineer / Team Lead to serve as the technical authority and on-program lead for an enterprise Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) replatforming effort supporting a federal customer. The Team Lead will design the target-state Linux and container platform architecture, set engineering standards, mentor team members, and be accountable for technical delivery across all program milestones. This role combines hands-on senior engineering with team leadership, customer-facing technical communication, and oversight of automation, security, and compliance practices across the platform. The position supports the BPA-26-RFP-5852 MCIT Replatforming RHEL program for the Bonneville Power Administration, with a period of performance from June 1, 2026, through May 31, 2027.

Requirements

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field. Equivalent professional experience may substitute on a year-for-year basis.
Minimum 10 years of progressive Linux / RHEL engineering experience, including at least 3 years in a technical lead, principal engineer, or architect capacity.
Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) — OR — Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) with 10+ years of qualifying experience.
Deep, hands-on expertise across RHEL 7, 8, and 9, including kernel-level troubleshooting, performance tuning, and high-availability design.
Production experience designing and operating OpenShift Container Platform and ROSA, including ACM, ACS, OpenShift Data Foundation, and GitOps workflows.
Mastery of Ansible Automation Platform: roles, collections, execution environments, workflow design, and integration with source control and CI/CD.
Strong working knowledge of Red Hat Satellite (capsules, content views, lifecycle environments), Identity Management, and SELinux.
Experience leading distributed engineering teams and serving as the senior technical voice in customer-facing meetings.
Demonstrated ability to architect for security and compliance frameworks (NIST 800-53, DISA STIG, FedRAMP).
Ability to obtain a DOE Security Badge and successfully adjudicate an NBIS eApp background investigation prior to start.

Nice To Haves

Red Hat Certified Architect in Infrastructure.
Red Hat Certified OpenShift Architect.
Red Hat Certified Specialist credentials in OpenShift, Ansible, Satellite, Containers, Virtualization, IdM, ACS, ACM, and OpenShift AI.
CompTIA Security+.
Existing DOE badge or active federal clearance (Public Trust, Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI).

Responsibilities

Serve as the technical lead for a multi-engineer Red Hat platform team and own architecture decisions across RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible Automation Platform, Satellite, Identity Management, and virtualization layers.
Design and review the target-state platform, including hybrid (on-premises and cloud) deployments, in alignment with NIST 800-53, DISA STIG, and FedRAMP guidance.
Lead the build-out and ongoing operation of OpenShift and ROSA clusters, including Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) and Advanced Cluster Security (ACS).
Define standards for Ansible roles, collections, GitOps (ArgoCD) pipelines, and reusable automation content; oversee code quality and Molecule-based testing.
Provide engineering oversight for Identity Management (IdM/Keycloak), Satellite content lifecycle, and Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) workloads.
Mentor and develop engineers; conduct technical interviews; provide guidance, feedback, and performance input.
Partner with the Project Manager and customer technical leads to align engineering work to milestone outcomes and to communicate risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.
Lead troubleshooting and root-cause analysis for the most complex platform incidents; serve as escalation point for the engineering team.
Supervise the RHEL Systems Engineer(s), Ansible Automation Engineer, Red Hat Satellite Administrator, and Security Engineer (STIG/SCAP) on the program.