System Engineer - Linux

Al Etihad Payments empowers employees to work in an environment that best promotes their productivity and well-being, while providing high-quality workplace and fantastic professional experience.

Al Etihad Payments is the UAE’s designated retail payments entity, dedicated to developing and operating world-class infrastructure, standards, and solutions for the UAE Economy. Al Etihad Payments is a subsidiary of the Central Bank of the UAE, strongly supported by the UAE Government.

Al Etihad Payments is the UAE’s designated retail payments entity, dedicated to developing and operating world-class infrastructure, standards, and solutions for the UAE Economy. Al Etihad Payments is a subsidiary of the Central Bank of the UAE, strongly supported by the UAE Government.

Our employees are committed to work with licensed financial institutions and other payment service providers to foster innovation and deliver excellent financial services to all in the UAE, efficiently and without friction.

Al Etihad Payments supports the government’s objectives of a cashless society, national digitization, and the Central Bank of the UAE objective of being a top ten central bank globally.

We are a collaborative, diverse and passionate group of individuals that works as one team. We support one another, make impactful contributions to the organization, and develop and nurture meaningful connections across the payment’s ecosystem!

Administer, automate and secure Al Etihad Payments' Linux server estate, with a primary focus on Red Hub Enterprise Linux, Red Hub Satellite and Ansible Automation Platform (Tower). The role ensures stable, compliant and efficiently managed Linux infrastructure for critical payment services.

• Install, configure and maintain RHEL and other Linux distributions across physical, virtual and cloud environments.
• Manage file systems, LVM, storage, networking, users and services.
• Monitor system performance and resolve incidents and problems within agreed SLAs.

• Administer Red Hat Satellite for subscription, content and lifecycle management.
• Plan and execute patching cycles, errata management and OS upgrades with minimal service disruption.
• Maintain standard builds and provisioning templates.

• Develop, maintain and run Ansible playbooks and roles through Ansible Automation Platform.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, compliance checks and routine operations.
• Manage inventories, credentials, job templates and RBAC within Ansible Tower.

• Apply CIS and organizational hardening baselines, SELinux and access controls.
• Remediate vulnerabilities and support PCI DSS and CBUAE audit requirements.
• Maintain technical documentation, SOPs and configuration records.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Linux system administration in enterprise environments.
• Preferred certifications: RHCE, RHCSA, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation or Satellite.

• Expert RHEL administration and troubleshooting.
• Red Hat Satellite and Ansible Automation Platform.
• Shell and Python scripting.
• Virtualization (VMware, KVM) and basic cloud knowledge.
• Clustering (Pacemaker) and high availability concepts.

• Modern work environment with level of flexibility;
• Dynamic and motivated team of colleagues working towards achieving UAE National Objectives;
• Competitive compensation package, including annual bonus and additional benefits like child educational allowance and annual flight tickets (where eligible);
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage;