Senior Linux Architect - Enterprise Platform & Automation

Novo Nordisk A/S; Ballerup; On-site; DKK 743,000 - 1,092,000; Full time

Job summary

Novo Nordisk A/S is seeking a Senior Linux Architect in Ballerup to lead architecture, standards, and governance across General Enterprise and Production Linux environments. You will drive Ansible automation, security baselines, and IaC practices while aligning with cybersecurity and enterprise teams.

You will shape reference designs, patching, backup, and high-availability strategies, and act as the senior technical authority, guiding engineering teams and defining long-term technology

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and operating Linux infrastructure within large enterprise environments.
• Strong architecture-level expertise in enterprise Linux platforms, ideally Red Hat Enterprise Linux or comparable distributions.
• Deep knowledge of Linux administration, security, networking, storage, performance, and troubleshooting.
• Significant hands-on experience with Ansible in large-scale enterprise environments.
• Experience designing automation frameworks, governance models, and reusable Ansible solutions.
• Strong understanding of Git-based development, CI/CD practices, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience working within segregated networks, security zones, and highly controlled production environments.
• Strong knowledge of identity and access management, privileged access management, secrets, certificates, and service accounts.
• Experience with enterprise patching, vulnerability management, monitoring, logging, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Ability to create architecture documentation, technical standards, and reference designs while translating business and security requirements into scalable solutions.
• Having the following qualifications would be considered as a plus;

Responsibilities

• Own and drive the enterprise Linux architecture, roadmap, standards, and lifecycle strategy across both General Enterprise and Production environments.
• Define and maintain reference architectures, platform standards, security baselines, high availability, monitoring, patching, backup, recovery, and operational best practices.
• Lead the architecture, governance, and strategic direction of the enterprise Ansible platform, including automation standards, reusable components, testing, release management, and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Design secure Linux and automation solutions across segregated environments, ensuring compliance with security principles such as least privilege, defense in depth, auditability, and controlled administrative access.
• Partner with cybersecurity, infrastructure, network, and application teams to deliver scalable, resilient, and compliant Linux platform solutions.
• Act as the senior technical authority for Linux architecture by reviewing designs, guiding engineering teams, reducing technical debt, and promoting standardization and automation.
• Evaluate emerging Linux and automation technologies, define enterprise adoption strategies, and ensure alignment with business, operational, and security objectives.

Skills

Linux architecture

Ansible automation

Security governance

CI/CD & IaC

Identity & access management

Disaster recovery

Patching & vulnerability management

Documentation & standards

Tools

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

AWX / Ansible Tower

Red Hat Satellite

VMware

Public/Private cloud platforms

Git-based CI/CD platforms

HashiCorp Vault

Kubernetes / OpenShift

Job description

Novo Nordisk A/S is seeking a Senior Linux Architect in Ballerup to lead architecture, standards, and governance across General Enterprise and Production Linux environments. You will drive Ansible automation, security baselines, and IaC practices while aligning with cybersecurity and enterprise teams.

You will shape reference designs, patching, backup, and high-availability strategies, and act as the senior technical authority, guiding engineering teams and defining long-term technology