Senior Linux Platform Engineer

The Senior Linux Platform Engineer is responsible for the engineering, automation, reliability, security, and lifecycle management of enterprise Linux platforms supporting corporate and distribution center operations. This role designs and maintains scalable Linux platform standards across RHEL and SUSE environments, drives automation and configuration consistency, supports production reliability, and serves as a senior technical escalation point for mission‑critical systems in a 24×7 retail environment.

This is a hands‑on senior individual contributor role and will partner with infrastructure, cloud, application, database, security, and operations teams to deliver secure, resilient, supportable, and automated Linux platform services. The role is expected to lead technical projects end‑to‑end, reduce manual operational effort, improve observability and recovery capabilities, and help modernise the Linux platform estate. The position also provides technical direction and delivery coordination across internal teams, managed services providers, and offshore engineering resources to ensure the Linux platform is aligned to service levels, quality standards, operational priorities, and business needs.

• Design, engineer, configure, and maintain enterprise Linux platform standards for RHEL and SUSE environments.
• Build and maintain automation using Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Python, Git, and CI/CD tooling.
• Develop repeatable patterns for provisioning, patching, configuration management, package deployment, access control, monitoring integration, and decommissioning.
• Own Linux OS lifecycle planning, including version currency, vendor supportability, patch compliance, firmware/driver dependencies, and upgrade roadmaps.
• Maintain and improve Linux images, templates, RPM/package standards, configuration baselines, and platform documentation.
• Evaluate and recommend platform improvements to increase scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.

• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex Linux platform incidents in a 24×7 production environment.
• Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and permanent remediation for recurring or high‑impact issues.
• Define and maintain monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging, and operational health checks using tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Nagios, Solar Winds, or similar platforms.
• Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, tuning, and proactive risk remediation.
• Support disaster recovery planning, testing, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and maintenance windows for critical platforms.

• Engineer Linux platform baselines aligned to internal security standards, SOX, PCI‑DSS, and audit requirements.
• Implement and maintain access controls, privileged access practices, encryption, logging, auditing, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance.
  
  Partner with cybersecurity and audit teams to remediate findings and provide evidence of control effectiveness.
• Improve security posture through standard hardening patterns, automated compliance checks, and remediation workflows.

• Engineer and support Linux workloads running on private and public cloud.
• Engineer and support SAN/NAS, backup/recovery, and related storage services.
• Partner with cloud and application teams on migration, modernization, and hybrid‑cloud enablement where appropriate.
• Support Linux integration with DNS, DHCP, SSO, LDAP/Active Directory, NTP, and other network services.
• Support cloud‑native container, serverless and PaaS modernisation initiatives.

• Lead assigned Linux engineering projects from planning through implementation, communication, change execution, and post‑change validation.
• Develop technical standards, diagrams, runbooks, implementation plans, operational procedures, and recovery documentation.
• Mentor administrators and junior engineers on Linux…