Senior Platform Engineer

• Build, operate, and troubleshoot enterprise UNIX/Linux platforms from server provisioning through production readiness and lifecycle management
• Lead Linux vulnerability remediation, security hardening, compliance validation, and audit readiness at enterprise scale
• Plan and deliver operating system patching, upgrades, hardening, and fleet maintenance
• Automate platform operations with Ansible, Python, Shell, APIs, and infrastructure as code
• Maintain Git-based workflows and CI/CD pipelines
• Manage Linux workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, including image and platform lifecycle activities
• Improve availability with monitoring, diagnostics, auto-remediation, and self-healing capabilities
• Resolve complex operating system, network, storage, authentication, and performance issues
• Lead root-cause analysis and preventive actions
• Manage secure access controls, including SSH, sudo, PAM, certificates, and privileged access
• Support incident, problem, and change management, production operations, and on-call response
• Maintain platform standards, runbooks, procedures, and technical documentation
• Work across teams to improve platform stability and usability
• Partner with security, infrastructure, and application teams to keep services scalable and production-ready

• 7+ years of hands-on Platform Engineering experience, including substantial enterprise Linux operations
• Expert Linux administration across RHEL 8/9, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, and Amazon Linux 2/2023
• Experience with Linux security and kernel patching, canary rollouts, rollback, users and sudo, SSH/sshd configuration, services, permissions, logging, and production troubleshooting
• Experience applying and maintaining CIS benchmarks with Ansible Lockdown
• Strong Ansible skills for configuration management, patching, and hardening
• Experience integrating hardening into golden images and onboarding third-party AMIs
• Advanced experience with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for Linux workloads
• Advanced Terraform and Ansible skills
• Hands-on experience building standard Linux images with Packer or AWS Image Builder
• Experience designing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools
• Experience remediating Qualys vulnerability QIDs and CIS compliance CIDs
• Experience integrating SonarQube, Veracode, Snyk, and StackHawk into CI/CD where applicable
• Track record of delivering automated platform solutions
• Experience using AI-assisted engineering tools for troubleshooting, scripting, log analysis, documentation, RCA, and automation development
• AWS certifications or working knowledge of Azure and Google Cloud are nice to have
• Experience with immutable infrastructure, autoscaling, observability, monitoring, GitOps, or progressive delivery is nice to have
• Experience supporting mixed Windows/Linux environments and IT operations, with knowledge of DNS, load balancers, reverse proxies, Microsoft Active Directory, and ADFS is nice to have

• Remote work arrangement
• Equal Opportunity Employer commitment
• Inclusive workplace supporting and respecting all individuals