Required Skills & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Computer Engineering
- 5+ years of hands-on Enterprise Linux Administration experience
- Strong Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration experience
- Experience with Linux provisioning, configuration, maintenance, patching, upgrades, troubleshooting, and vulnerability remediation
- Hands-on Ansible experience for automation and configuration management
- Bash, Python, or similar scripting experience
- Strong Linux networking knowledge including DNS, storage, filesystems, authentication, access controls, and package management
- Experience with incident management, change management, problem management, and service management processes
- Experience supporting production environments and participating in on-call rotations
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work independently and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux certifications
- Ansible Automation Platform / Ansible Tower
- Terraform
- VMware
- Azure, AWS, or GCP cloud experience
- Git and CI/CD pipelines
- ServiceNow or Jira
- Monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, Prometheus, Grafana, or CloudWatch
- Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AKS, or EKS
- Security+, Cloud, or Kubernetes certifications
- Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical, regulated, SOX, or NERC CIP environments
Job Description
Day to Day:
- Administer and support enterprise Red Hat Linux environments
- Provision, configure, patch, upgrade, maintain, and decommission Linux servers
- Perform monthly patching, kernel updates, vulnerability remediation, and maintenance activities
- Troubleshoot Linux OS, storage, filesystem, networking, authentication, and application issues
- Develop and maintain Ansible automation playbooks, roles, and workflows
- Create Bash/Python scripts to improve operational efficiency
- Contribute to Infrastructure as Code initiatives using Terraform and related technologies
- Respond to production incidents, escalations, and high-priority troubleshooting efforts
- Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective actions
- Apply Linux hardening standards and security best practices
- Support Linux infrastructure across on-prem, VMware, and cloud environments
- Maintain operational documentation, runbooks, and procedures
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, cloud, networking, database, monitoring, and application teams
- Participate in on-call support and planned maintenance windows
Job Description:
Insight Global is seeking a Linux Infrastructure Engineer for a leading energy and utilities client. This individual will provide hands-on administration and operational support for enterprise Red Hat Linux environments, ensuring platform reliability, security, compliance, and performance. The engineer will be responsible for server lifecycle management, enterprise patching, vulnerability remediation, automation development, incident response, and infrastructure modernization initiatives. This role requires strong expertise in Linux administration, Ansible automation, scripting, and production operations. The ideal candidate is comfortable supporting business-critical environments, collaborating with cross-functional infrastructure teams, and driving operational excellence through automation, security best practices, and continuous improvement.
