Linux Engineer

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Title: Linux Engineer

Location- Plano TX - Hybrid - (3 days onsite in a week)

Duration- 12- 18 months (Contract)

Must have: Linux RedHat Ansible Scripting (Python/Bash/Shell Scripting) Exadata Heavy Servers exp Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL)

They are looking a Candidate with Heavy Scripting and quick response on Scripting.
Candidate must be worked on 1000 Servers.

Job Description:

Looking for Linux Engineer who is responsible for ensuring the reliability scalability performance and security of enterprise Linux-based systems. This role combines deep technical expertise in Linux administration with leadership in automation observability incident management and infrastructure engineering. The SRE Lead drives operational excellence by implementing best practices improving system resilience and mentoring engineering teams.

Platform Engineering Operations

• Lead the administration monitoring and performance tuning of Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) environments in a large-scale enterprise ecosystem.
• Oversee the design build and lifecycle management of Linux servers including storage virtualization and associated infrastructure.
• Manage high availability (HA) configurations clustering and load-balanced environments to ensure minimal downtime.
• Drive capacity planning performance optimization and system scalability initiatives.
• Reliability Automation (SRE Practices)
• Define and implement SRE principles including SLIs SLOs and error budgets.
• Lead initiatives for infrastructure automation (provisioning configuration patching) using tools such as Ansible.
• Build and maintain self-healing systems reducing manual intervention and improving system resilience.
• Develop automation for system installation configuration and deployment pipelines.
• System Administration Infrastructure Management
• Install configure and maintain Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) operating systems and related software stacks.
• Manage Logical Volume Manager (LVM) configurations including volume groups and filesystem expansion.
• Administer distributed file systems NFS servers/clients and automount configurations.
• Maintain network services such as DNS NTP LDAP/Kerberos SMTP (sendmail/postfix) and OpenSSH.
• Troubleshoot and support network protocols (TCP/IP HTTP HTTPS RPC).
• Monitoring Incident Management Support
• Implement and enhance monitoring alerting and observability frameworks for proactive issue detection.
• Lead incident response root cause analysis (RCA) and postmortem reviews.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying systemic issues and implementing preventive solutions.
• Oversee break/fix operations ensuring timely resolution and minimal business impact.
• Security Compliance
• Ensure systems are secure hardened and compliant with enterprise security standards.
• Manage patching vulnerability remediation and OS upgrades.
• Partner with security teams to implement best practices for access control auditing and encryption.
• Leadership Collaboration
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to SRE and infrastructure teams.
• Collaborate with application DevOps and platform teams to improve system reliability and deployment processes.
• Define and enforce operational standards runbooks and best practices.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives to enhance platform stability and efficiency.
• Documentation Governance
• Maintain comprehensive documentation for architecture processes and operational procedures.
• Ensure adherence to change management and incident governance frameworks.
• Standardize operational workflows across environments.

Required Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in Linux system administration in enterprise environments.
• Strong expertise in Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) systems.
• Proven experience in high availability systems virtualization and storage management.
• Hands-on experience with automation and configuration management tools (Ansible preferred).
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/programming language (Bash Python preferred).
• Strong experience with infrastructure troubleshooting performance tuning and incident management.
• Solid understanding of enterprise infrastructure (compute storage network).
• Excellent analytical problem-solving and organizational skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in a global team environment.