Linux Architect – Enterprise Platform Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a highly experienced Linux Architect to design, standardize, automate, and optimize enterprise‑wide Linux platforms. This hands‑on engineering position focuses on building reusable solutions for Linux Operations and Infrastructure teams rather than routine system administration.

Key responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise‑wide Linux platform standards and automated build solutions.
• Develop standardized OS and container golden images for bare‑metal, VMware, OpenShift, and cloud environments.
• Manage and enhance Red Hat Satellite, Kickstart, PXE, DHCP, and Redfish for automated provisioning.
• Engineer and optimize RHEL platforms, including kernel, CPU, memory, I/O, and network performance.
• Define and implement Linux security, hardening, configuration, and compliance standards.
• Develop monitoring and observability solutions integrating with Splunk, ELK, SIEM, and AppDynamics.
• Automate patching, firmware updates, configuration management, monitoring, and compliance using Ansible, Bash, and Python.
• Support Linux platforms across OpenShift, VMware, Kubernetes, and cloud environments and act as Level 3 escalation point.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering or equivalent experience.
• 12+ years of enterprise Linux experience, including at least 5 years in senior Linux administration and 5 years in Linux engineering.
• RHCE certification required; RHCA a plus. AWS/Azure certifications advantageous.

Required skills

• RHEL 6+ administration and performance tuning.
• Red Hat Satellite, Kickstart, PXE, DHCP, Redfish provisioning.
• Creation of OS/container images for on‑premises, VMware, OpenShift, and cloud.
• Strong expertise in Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes.
• Automation with Ansible, Bash, Python, Packer and CI/CD pipelines.
• Networking and services: DNS, NFS, NTP, SNMP, SMTP, Active Directory, TCP/IP, Ethernet.
• Monitoring and logging tools: Splunk, ELK, SIEM, AppDynamics.