Senior Linux Platform Engineer - Automation & OpenShift

Systems Limited; Islamabad; On-site; PKR 4,500,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Systems Limited is seeking a highly experienced Linux Engineer to design, automate, and optimize enterprise Linux platforms across on‑premises and cloud environments. This hands-on role focuses on building reusable solutions for Linux Operations and Infrastructure teams, rather than routine admin tasks.

You will define standards, build golden images, manage provisioning tooling, and lead incident analysis in a 24x7 on-call rotation, working with DevOps, Security, and EA teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 12+ years of experience in Enterprise Linux environments.
• Senior Linux Administration and Linux Engineering background.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise-wide Linux platform standards and automated build solutions.
• Develop standardized OS and container golden images for bare-metal, VMware, OpenShift, and cloud environments.
• Manage Red Hat Satellite, Kickstart, PXE, DHCP, and Redfish for automated provisioning.
• Engineer and optimize RHEL platforms, including kernel, CPU, memory, I/O, and network performance.
• Define and implement Linux security, hardening, configuration and compliance standards.
• Develop monitoring and observability solutions for Linux OS and server infrastructure (Splunk/ELK/SiEM/AppDynamics).
• Automate patching, firmware updates, configuration management, monitoring, and compliance with Ansible, Bash, Python.
• Develop AI-driven solutions to improve Linux engineering and BAU operations.
• Support Linux platforms across OpenShift, VMware, Kubernetes, and cloud environments.
• Act as Level 3 escalation point for critical incidents and lead root cause analysis.

Skills

Linux platform standards

Automation with Ansible/Bash/Python

OpenShift and Kubernetes

RHEL expert / kernel tuning

Red Hat Satellite

CI/CD/DevOps

Cloud environments

Monitoring and SIEM

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT / Engineering

Tools

Red Hat Satellite Server

Kickstart

PXE

DHCP

Redfish

Packer

CI/CD tools

Splunk/ELK/AppDynamics

Job description

Systems Limited is seeking a highly experienced Linux Engineer to design, automate, and optimize enterprise Linux platforms across on‑premises and cloud environments. This hands-on role focuses on building reusable solutions for Linux Operations and Infrastructure teams, rather than routine admin tasks.

You will define standards, build golden images, manage provisioning tooling, and lead incident analysis in a 24x7 on-call rotation, working with DevOps, Security, and EA teams.