Global Linux Engineering & SRE Director

MetLife; Cary (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

MetLife’s Global Technology team seeks a Director – Linux Engineering & Operations to lead the global Linux platform and operations, delivering reliability, security, and scalability across enterprise hosting services. You will modernize Linux platforms, drive SRE adoption, and build a high-performing worldwide team with strong ownership culture.

The role requires strategic leadership, collaboration with security, cloud, and application teams, and a proven track record in large-scale regulated

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) and demonstrated leadership in large-scale enterprise infrastructure environments.
• Deep expertise in Linux platforms (e.g., RHEL) including engineering, operations, lifecycle management, and platform standardization at scale.
• Experience with VMware virtualization environments, including migration planning or platform transitions to alternative virtualization technologies.
• Strong working knowledge of SRE concepts, including reliability engineering, automation, observability, incident management, and continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to operate in complex, regulated enterprise environments with strong focus on availability, security, and risk management.
• Ability to rapidly assess situations, make informed decisions, and lead with confidence during both steady-state operations and high-pressure events.

Responsibilities

• Lead the global Linux Engineering & Operations organization, providing technical and operational leadership across enterprise Linux platforms environments.
• Create a modern Linux operating model grounded in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, including automation-first practices, infrastructure-as-code, standardization, observability, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the stability, availability, security, patching, and lifecycle management of Linux platforms, ensuring alignment with enterprise risk, compliance, and resiliency expectations.
• Manage large-scale global infrastructure operations, capacity planning, major incident response, and post-incident analysis, driving systemic fixes and measurable improvements in service health.
• Drive infrastructure-as-code adoption and GitOps-driven workflows across the platform, leveraging tools such as Ansible Automation Platform, Terraform, and related orchestration frameworks.
• Establish and mature observability practices across the platform estate using modern tooling (e.g., Elastic, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry), ensuring actionable alerting, end-to-end visibility, and data-driven capacity decisions.
• Manage hardware vendor relationships, lifecycle strategies, and procurement planning across the on-premises compute and storage footprint, contributing to vendor diversification and cost optimization initiatives.
• Develop high-performing engineering leaders and teams, fostering strong technical depth, sound engineering judgment, and a culture that balances operational discipline with innovation and customer focus.
• Coordinate closely with application, middleware, database, cloud, security, and SRE teams to ensure platform capabilities align with business needs, architectural standards, and technology roadmaps.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Tools

VMware

Ansible

Terraform

GitOps

Elastic

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

MetLife’s Global Technology team seeks a Director – Linux Engineering & Operations to lead the global Linux platform and operations, delivering reliability, security, and scalability across enterprise hosting services. You will modernize Linux platforms, drive SRE adoption, and build a high-performing worldwide team with strong ownership culture.

The role requires strategic leadership, collaboration with security, cloud, and application teams, and a proven track record in large-scale regulated