Senior Linux & Infrastructure Automation Engineer

The Senior Linux & Infrastructure Automation Engineer is responsible for engineering scaling and maintaining the underlying Valassis DMT platform environment. This individual contributor role focuses heavily on hands-on systems engineering robust configuration management and high-availability cloud infrastructure execution across hybrid environments spanning bare-metal servers collocations and cloud architectures. The position requires deep expertise in Linux systems administration advanced automation using Puppet and Ansible and experience deploying and operating OpenStack environments.

Core Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Automation & Configuration Management: Design develop and maintain declarative configuration modules using Puppet and Ansible to automate system provisioning application deployment and continuous compliance across bare-metal and virtualized nodes.
• Linux Systems Engineering: Administer tune and troubleshoot enterprise Linux environments (primarily Ubuntu) for optimal performance kernel optimization security hardening and maximum uptime.
• Cloud & Virtualization Operations: Operate and optimize virtualization and hypervisor layers (including OpenStack LXD KVM and ESXi lifecycles) and drive automated bare-metal server provisioning.
• Storage & Infrastructure Maintenance: Administer and maintain persistent storage infrastructure alongside physical SAN equipment (PureStorage or enterprise S3-compatible targets).
• Technical Execution & Migrations: Actively execute platform refreshes legacy environment decommissionings and infrastructure migrations across datacenter footprints.

Qualifications :

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Technology or a related engineering discipline or equivalent professional work experience.
• Minimum of 57 years of progressive hands-on experience in Linux infrastructure engineering systems administration and cloud infrastructure automation.

Required Skills

• Linux Administration - Expert-level hands-on experience engineering hardening and maintaining enterprise Ubuntu/Debian server environments.
• Automation & CM - Proven mastery authoring custom Puppet modules and Ansible playbooks/roles to automate configuration orchestration and system management at scale.
• Orchestration & Virtualization -Strong foundational background in bare-metal provisioning concepts and hypervisor/container runtimes (KVM LXD ESXi).
• Storage Fundamentals -Solid understanding of enterprise storage architectures including SAN/NAS devices block/object storage concepts and volume management.
• Identity & Security -Working knowledge of cross-platform Active Directory integration enterprise PKI/certificate enrollment and domain identity services.

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)

• OpenStack Operations: Hands-on experience configuring troubleshooting and maintaining production OpenStack deployments (Nova Neutron Cinder Keystone).
• Scale-Out Storage (Ceph): Direct experience configuring operating or maintaining Ceph storage clusters.
• Bare-Metal Provisioning Tools (MAAS): Hands-on experience with Canonical MAAS or similar automated bare-metal provisioning platforms.
• MicroCloud & Edge Frameworks: Familiarity with MicroCloud deployment and lightweight cloud infrastructure environments.

Additional Information :

RRDs current salary range for this role is $91800 to $146800 / year. The salary range may be adjusted based on the applicable geographic location of the hired employee and the range may change in the future. At RRD it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions may vary based upon but not limited to education skills experience proficiency performance shift and location. Depending on the role in addition to base salary the total compensation package may also include participation in a bonus commission or incentive program. RRDs benefit offerings include medical dental and vision coverage paid time off disability insurance 401(k) with company match life insurance and other voluntary supplemental insurance coverages plus parental leave adoption assistance tuition assistance and employer/partner discounts.

RRD is an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability/veterans

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All employment offers are contingent upon the successful completion of both a pre-employment background and drug screen.

Remote Work :

Yes

Employment Type :

Full-time