Linux Systems Engineer

## Linux Systems Engineer Apply:
Charlotte Office:
Full time:
Posted 2 Days Ago:
JR100198
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* Position summary:

** Linux Systems Engineer responsible for engineering, building, supporting, securing, and maintaining large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server infrastructure in a highly available, 24x7 enterprise production environment. This role requires extensive hands-on RHEL experience, strong troubleshooting skills, and the ability to support complex distributed infrastructure across on-premises virtualization and AWS cloud environments.  
** About The Clearing House:
** The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. is a bank-owned industry utility that shapes the payments landscape and provides infrastructure for safe, reliable, and efficient payments. We see an economy where everyone is connected and a future where modern payments make life easier. The Clearing House operates four payment systems: a high-value wire-transfer system (the CHIPS network), the country’s first and largest instant payments system (the RTP network), an automated clearinghouse network (the EPN network), and a check image exchange network (the Image Exchange Network).

TCH also operates a bank account number tokenization service, runs a payments association known as the TCH Payments Authority, and maintains the rules for private-sector check image exchange through its ECCHO business line.  
** Qualifications required:
*** Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
* Extensive hands-on experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a large enterprise environment, including installation, configuration, upgrades, lifecycle management, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and production support.
* Strong understanding of cloud fundamentals, infrastructure provisioning, and enterprise cloud design patterns.
* Extensive experience with RHEL 8.x and 9.x on x86 _64 platforms, including RHEL workloads hosted on VMware and AWS.
* Strong working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure dependencies, including SAN storage (Dell/EMC), TCP/IP networking, DNS, LDAP, Active Directory integration, and firewalls.
* Working knowledge of enterprise backup and recovery technologies, including Dell Power Protect Data Manager (PPDM).
* Experience provisioning, configuring, and supporting Linux virtual machines in VMware environments.
* Working knowledge of Linux authentication and identity integration with LDAP and Active Directory, as well as enterprise DNS services.
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to create clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
* Ability to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and perform planned maintenance or incident response during nights, weekends, and other off-hours as required.
* Demonstrated ability to work professionally and collaboratively with infrastructure, application, security, architecture, operations, and other enterprise technology teams.
** Qualifications desired:
*** Experience supporting enterprise Linux workloads across VMware virtualization and AWS cloud environments.
* Experience with VMware infrastructure concepts, including virtual networking, VLANs, compute, storage, and virtual machine lifecycle management.
* Demonstrated ability to analyze and resolve complex infrastructure and operating system issues using structured troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
* Experience with AWS services and cloud-based Linux infrastructure is preferred.
* Experience with Linux automation and scripting, such as Bash, Python, Ansible, or comparable tools.
* Experience with enterprise monitoring, performance management, vulnerability management, configuration management, and security tooling.
** Essential functions and responsibilities:
*** Design, engineer, implement, and support enterprise Red Hat Enterprise Linux server platforms across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
* Establish, implement, and maintain enterprise Linux engineering standards, including server build processes, configuration baselines, hardening standards, supported package levels, firmware, drivers, and lifecycle requirements.
* Collaborate with Information Security and Architecture teams to implement, validate, and maintain RHEL security hardening standards and configuration baselines.
* Integrate RHEL servers with enterprise infrastructure management and…