Linux and Infrastructure Platform Engineer

Demonstrate Biblical Integrity

Location:

Boone, NC, United States

Job

Date Posted:
Nov 11, 2026

At Samaritan's Purse, the Gospel is the center of all we do! We start each day with a time of devotions and prayer for each other, our staff, and volunteers who serve around the world. As a faith-driven organization, our Statement of Faith shapes every aspect of our global work.

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We are seeking a Linux and Infrastructure Platform Engineer to join our Information Technology team in Boone, NC. Through humanitarian work, the goal and purpose of Samaritan's Purse are to help people in Jesus' name and share the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

• Maintain a personal, active relationship with Jesus Christ and is a consistent witness for Jesus Christ.
• Design and support enterprise application platforms across production, staging, development, and test environments, emphasizing Linux, Kubernetes, containerized workloads, and supporting services.
• Collaborate with Systems, Network, Storage, Database, and Application teams to create delivery infrastructure across datacenters, covering load balancing, ingress, networking, persistent storage, and disaster-recovery.
• Maintain platform availability through Kubernetes resiliency, clustering, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, backup-and-recovery, and ongoing infrastructure maintenance.
• Monitor Linux, Kubernetes, and application environments for performance, availability, capacity, logs, CPU, memory, storage, network utilization, node health, and workload status.
• Implement and maintain Kubernetes, Linux, configuration-management, automation, Helm, Git Ops, and related enterprise platform technologies.
• Provide technical support to application developers, business analysts, systems administrators, database administrators, and third-party vendors.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor's degree plus four (4) years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. ITIL certification preferred.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Windows and Linux server management and Kubernetes/container ecosystems, with a track record of configuring, patching, upgrading, and maintaining robust, multi-environment platforms.
• Thorough knowledge of highly available infrastructures, including networking, load balancing, ingress, storage, capacity planning, backup, and disaster-recovery across multiple data centers.
• Skill with IaC, Helm, Git Ops, and CI/CD pipelines to deliver repeatable services; adept at monitoring health, analyzing logs, and troubleshooting performance or deployment issues.
• General knowledge of access controls, authentication, secrets management, and change-control standards, coupled with a commitment to clear documentation, procedures, and runbooks.
• 12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies (required); if not already completed, an opportunity to meet and complete the requirement is available upon hire.

• On-site Medical Clinic (staff and dependents)
• Medical, prescription, dental & vision insurance
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• Long-term and Short-term disability insurance
• Paid Family Medical Leave
• Term Life Insurance
• 401(k) retirement savings plan
• 10 paid holidays
• 12 vacation/personal days
• 10 sick days

Type:
Full-time

Department:
Information Technology

Location:

(On-Site) Boone, NC

Language Requirement:
Fluency in English (required)