Posting Start Date: 11/3/26

Infrastructure Engineer III - Linux Fleet Management

Job Profile Summary

Design, engineer, and continuously improve scalable Linux fleet management, automation, configuration management, patching, and lifecycle capabilities. Serve as a technical leader and escalation point for complex infrastructure issues while driving automation, reliability, standardization, and operational maturity across the managed fleet.

Career Level Summary

- Requires in-depth conceptual and practical knowledge of infrastructure engineering and related disciplines.
- Solves complex and cross-platform technical problems with minimal guidance.
- Leads technical projects or significant workstreams and is accountable for technical outcomes.
- Designs and implements scalable infrastructure automation, configuration management, and fleet-management solutions.
- Defines and improves engineering standards and operational practices.
- Serves as a senior technical resource and escalation point for less-experienced engineers.
- Mentors Engineers I and II and contributes to long-term fleet strategy and modernization.

Critical Competencies
- Excellence: Demonstrates accountability, discipline, and consistent execution while maintaining reliable and supportable infrastructure.
- Customer-driven: Understands the needs of technology teams and delivers infrastructure services that support reliable business operations.
- Expertise: Builds and applies technical knowledge in Linux systems, fleet management, automation, and configuration management.
- Agility: Adapts to changing infrastructure requirements, technologies, and operational priorities.
- Compassion: Collaborates effectively, shares knowledge, and contributes to a positive and supportive engineering environment.

Key Responsibilities
- Design scalable Linux fleet management, automated patching, and configuration-management solutions.




- Define and improve automated patching architectures, workflows, and operational controls.
- Design Puppet, Ansible, Jenkins, or equivalent automation patterns and reusable engineering frameworks.
- Develop advanced Python, Bash, or comparable automation for complex infrastructure use cases.
- Establish configuration-as-code, source-control, testing, and deployment practices for infrastructure automation.
- Define technical standards for Linux fleet configuration, patching, lifecycle management, and operational readiness.
- Lead complex end-of-life, modernization, and technical-debt remediation initiatives.
- Diagnose complex, systemic, and cross-platform infrastructure failures and drive root-cause remediation.
- Analyze fleet-wide operational metrics to identify systemic reliability and efficiency improvements.
- Lead technical projects from design through implementation and operationalization.
- Evaluate infrastructure automation and configuration-management technologies and recommend adoption approaches.
- Partner with architecture, cloud, application, security, and infrastructure teams on complex technical initiatives.
- Mentor engineers and serve as a senior escalation point for production infrastructure issues.

Knowledge
- Linux system administration and operating system concepts.
- Linux package management, patching, and operating system lifecycle management.
- Infrastructure automation and configuration management principles.
- Desired-state configuration, configuration drift, standardized deployment, and configuration-as-code practices.




- Server infrastructure, virtualization, and cloud computing concepts.
- Infrastructure vulnerability remediation and system hardening concepts.
- Networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, firewalls, and connectivity troubleshooting.
- Deep knowledge of monitoring, availability, capacity, backup, recovery, and resiliency practices.
- Infrastructure architecture and engineering standards.
- Operational risk, lifecycle strategy, and technical-debt management.
- Advanced source-control, testing, and software engineering practices for infrastructure automation.

Skills
- Advanced Linux Systems Administration

- Operating System Patching

- Infrastructure Automation

- Configuration Management

- Deep knowledge of Ansible

- Bash / Shell Scripting
- Configuration-as-Code

- Git / Source Control

- Infrastructure Architecture

- Cloud Computing

- Virtualization

- Network/Systems Skills

- Vulnerability Remediation

- Infrastructure Monitoring

- Operational Metrics

- Project Management

- Technical Leadership

- Mentoring

- Process Improvement
- Knowledge of Linux Fleet Management, Python, Jenkins, Puppet are added advantage.

Education
- High School Diploma or regional equivalent required.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline preferred; relevant qualified experience may substitute at the manager's discretion.

Certifications Relevant industry certifications preferred. Examples include Linux, Red Hat, Ansible/Red Hat Automation, cloud, or infrastructure-related certifications. Equivalent technical experience may substitute for certifications.

Experience

3-6 years of relevant experience in Linux systems administration, infrastructure engineering, fleet management, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related technical role.

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