Senior Linux Engineering & Automation Engineer

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Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Linux Engineering & Automation Specialist with strong background in infrastructure automation, AWS cloud technologies, and platform engineering practice. The successful candidate will work alongside Principal Engineers to design, build, automate, and continuously improve enterprise Linux platforms.

The Senior Linux Engineering & Automation Specialist will execute engineering initiatives, deliver automation capabilities, implement platform standards and drive operational improvements

• →Engineer and maintain enterprise Linux platform services.
• →Develop automation solutions using Ansible Automation Platform and Event-Driven Ansible.
• →Support migration of Linux workloads to AWS.
• →Implement Infrastructure as Code practices.
• →Improve platform reliability, monitoring, and observability.
• →Support cloud cost optimisation and operational efficiency initiatives.

• 10+ years Linux Engineering experience.
• Extensive Red Hat Enterprise Linux expertise.
• Strong Ansible Automation Platform experience.
• AWS infrastructure experience.
• Strong scripting skills using Python and Bash.
• Experience working in enterprise-scale environments.

• Event-Driven Ansible
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions
• AWS Lambda
• AWS Systems Manager
• Site Reliability Engineering practices

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Red Hat Satellite
• Ansible Automation Platform
• Python
• Bash
• AWS EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch
• Terraform
• Git and CI/CD Tooling

• Automation coverage exceeding 80%.
• Significant reduction in manual operational effort.
• Reusable automation frameworks established.
• Improved Linux platform stability and reliability.
• Contribution to AWS cloud adoption initiatives.
• Improved deployment consistency and engineering efficiency.

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