Sr. Server Linux Engineer

Job Title:

Sr,

Server Engineer

Location:

System Business Office

Department Name: IT&S Service Support

Req #:

Status:
Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $ - $ per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

The Senior Server (Linux) Engineer is responsible for implementing, maintaining, securing, and optimizing Linux-based infrastructure supporting enterprise applications, networks, and services across RWJBarnabas Health.

This role helps ensure business-critical systems remain secure, highly available, resilient, and high performing. The Senior Server (Linux) Engineer works across infrastructure automation, system provisioning, monitoring, patching, vulnerability remediation, incident response, disaster recovery, and performance optimization within hybrid and cloud environments.

The ideal candidate brings deep Linux expertise, strong automation capabilities, and an analytical mindset with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

• Deploying, configuring, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise Linux servers and related infrastructure.
• Supporting Linux distributions including Red Hat, Ubuntu, and CentOS
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• Ensuring critical systems and services are properly monitored with relevant alerts configured to proactively identify and prevent potential outages.
• Troubleshooting complex system errors, performance degradation, accessibility issues, and infrastructure outages.
• Performing root-cause analysis and developing solutions to prevent recurring infrastructure issues.
• Writing and maintaining automation scripts and playbooks for provisioning, monitoring, configuration, deployments, and other repeatable operational tasks.
• Automating system provisioning and configuration across hybrid and cloud environments using automation and orchestration tools.
• Performing Linux performance tuning, kernel optimization, log analysis, and scalability improvements.
• Diagnosing infrastructure bottlenecks and supporting High Availability (HA) clustering
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• Managing operating system lifecycle activities, including patching, vulnerability remediation, security hardening, upgrades, and retirement of obsolete infrastructure.
• Leading infrastructure upgrades, migrations, hardware refreshes, firmware updates, patching initiatives, and vulnerability remediation efforts.
• Supporting enterprise storage technologies including SAN, NAS, object storage, storage virtualization, tiering, snapshots, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Managing disaster recovery testing and supporting business continuity and reliable backup strategies.
• Managing and supporting virtualized environments and public cloud infrastructure.
• Maintaining server security, Identity and Access Management (IAM), vulnerability management, and applicable compliance requirements.
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation for system configurations, processes, operational standards, support procedures, and infrastructure changes.
• Developing and maintaining lifecycle roadmaps, monitoring practices, and service-level metrics for mission-critical infrastructure platforms.
• Utilizing Service Now and following documented change-management processes to minimize downtime and operational risk.
• Monitoring problem and incident ticket queues and resolving assigned tickets according to established SLAs.
• Maintaining timely and accurate Workfront updates, including weekly timesheets and assigned project tasks.
• Communicating technical risks, operational metrics, outages, project status, and recovery capabilities to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Performing additional duties and responsibilities as requested by management.

• You have extensive hands-on experience supporting Linux infrastructure in a large-scale enterprise environment
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• You enjoy diagnosing complex system-level issues and identifying the root cause of outages or performance degradation.
• You are comfortable working with multiple Linux distributions, including Red Hat, Ubuntu, and CentOS.
• You enjoy automating repetitive infrastructure tasks and have experience developing scripts and automation playbooks.
• You understand how…