Manager Linux Operations

Chicago, Illinois

Salary Details: $130000.00 - 170000.00 a year

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Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote

We are unable to sponsor as this is a permanent Full time role

A prestigious company is looking for a Manager - Linux Operations. This manager will manage a team of Linux professionals focused on the stability, performance, security, and reliability of Linux infrastructure/Operations. This role requires experience with technologies such as Ansible, Puppet, Red Hat, Docker, Kubernetes, terraform, CICD, etc.

Responsibilities:

  • Manage and mentor a team of Linux administrators, providing technical leadership and guidance.
  • Oversee the daily operations and maintenance of Linux Servers (on-prem and cloud).
  • Develop and implement strategies for monitoring, performance tuning, and capacity planning.
  • Ensure system availability, uptime, and business continuity through best practices and incident management.
  • Lead root cause analysis of critical issues and implement preventive measures.
  • Manage patch management, system upgrades, and configuration management (eg, Ansible, Puppet).
  • Develop and maintain operational documentation, policies, and standard operating procedures.
  • Collaborate with DevOps, security, and network teams to align infrastructure goals.
  • Evaluate and recommend new tools, technologies, and methodologies to support business needs.
  • Ensure compliance with security policies and data protection standards.
  • Participate in budgeting, resource planning, and vendor management as needed.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
  • 7+ years of experience in Linux systems administration, with at least 2 years in a leadership or managerial role.
  • Deep understanding of Linux (Red Hat) operating systems and internals.
  • Linux Experience: Provide advanced system administration, operational support and problem resolution for a large complex Linux computing environment, including both virtualized and physical servers. Create and Patch AMIs, perform pull requests, write Automation code using tools such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.
  • Cloud Experience - Strong knowledge of secure cloud infrastructure design and components, such as: servers, operating systems, networks, IAM, and storage. Cloud Certifications, specifically AWS Cloud certification would be preferred.
  • Infra Automation - Expert knowledge in core automation development toolchain including Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Git, Harness.
  • CICD Experience - Mastery of CICD best practices in a large organization. (GitOps/DevOps, secure builds, secure code promotion, deployments (Harness\Argo), automated testing (app and infra), integration of policy frameworks, cost-optimization, SLSA best practices)
  • Strong experience with virtualization (eg, VMware, KVM), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), and containerization (eg, Docker, Kubernetes).
  • Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools.
Date Posted: 22 May 2025
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