Lead Linux Engineer

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Lead Linux Engineer

This position is available to Virginia residents as Richmond, Virginia or Lynchburg, Virginia in-office applicants or remote applicants residing in states/locations under Eastern or Central Standard Time: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas,  Virginia, Washington DC, Vermont, West Virginia or Wisconsin.    

YOUR ROLE

We are seeking an experienced Lead Linux Engineer.  Their duties will include architecting, implementing, optimizing and securing Linux-based infrastructure as well as managing related projects and helping manage a team consisting of managed service provider engineers.  You will be looked at as an expert on the technology and act as an escalation point for issues.   The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Linux administration, automation, security best practices, and hybrid cloud environments.

What you will be doing

• Linux System Architecture & Administration: Lead the design, deployment, and optimization of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL),
• Security & Compliance: Implement and maintain system hardening, access controls, policy compliance, license compliance, recovery and patching.
• Automation & Configuration Management: Develop and manage Ansible, packer.io, Terraform, or other automation tools to improve operational efficiency, compliance enforcement, and rapid deployments in a hybrid physical and virtual environment.
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity: Document and implement solutions for Linux-based systems, disaster recovery, and high-availability configurations.
• Monitoring & Performance Optimization: Work with our managed services provider on ensuring monitoring completeness and accuracy, using monitoring to identify performance issues and direct their resolution.
• Incident & Problem Management: Act as the highest technical escalation point for Linux-related issues, conducting root cause analysis and implementing long-term remediation strategies.
• Project Management: Lead or participate in enterprise-level major projects such as OS upgrades, migrations, P2V and system or security enhancements.
• Collaboration & Mentoring: Provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams, mentoring junior engineers and working closely with cybersecurity, application development, and cloud teams.
• Regulatory & Audit Support: Work with compliance teams to ensure audit readiness, documentation accuracy, and security best practices for all Linux-based systems.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 10+ years of experience in Linux system administration and engineering within a large-scale enterprise or financial services organization.
• Deep expertise in RHEL, Ubuntu, CentOS, or other