Head of Linux Systems Engineering & Disaster Recovery

Dollar Tree, Inc.; Dallas (TX); Presencial; USD 131.000 - 145.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Health, Dental, & Vision

401k plan

Paid holidays

PTO

Employee stock purchase plan

Descripción de la vacante

Dollar Tree, Inc. in Chesapeake, VA seeks a senior IT leader to own the reliability, performance, security, and lifecycle management of enterprise Linux servers, virtualization, storage, backup, and disaster recovery services.

You will lead a team of systems engineers, partnering across Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Application, Database, and Business Continuity teams to deliver stable, scalable, and resilient technology services.

Formación

• Progressive experience engineering and supporting enterprise infrastructure in complex, highly available environments, including substantial hands-on Linux systems experience.
• Demonstrated experience leading technical teams, mentoring engineers, assigning work, managing priorities, and delivering results through others.
• Strong working knowledge of physical and virtual compute, enterprise Linux administration, storage concepts, backup and recovery, replication, and disaster recovery principles.
• Experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting business-critical infrastructure across geographically separated or hybrid environments.
• Proven ability to lead major incidents, diagnose complex cross-platform issues, and translate findings into sustainable corrective actions.
• Experience with infrastructure lifecycle planning, capacity forecasting, performance management, patching, security remediation, and technology refresh programs.
• Experience developing and validating recovery plans, including restoration testing, failover exercises, dependency mapping, and recovery documentation.
• Working knowledge of automation, scripting, configuration management, or infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience managing vendors, support agreements, procurement activities, budgets, and project delivery.
• Ability to communicate technical information clearly to engineers, business partners, vendors, and senior leadership.
• Strong organizational, analytical, documentation, and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a production environment.

Responsabilidades

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of systems engineers and contractors; set priorities, standards, accountability, and growth plans.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Linux servers, compute platforms, storage, data protection, replication, and disaster recovery.
• Own service health, capacity, availability, performance, and lifecycle planning for the infrastructure portfolio.
• Guide architecture and engineering decisions for new solutions, migrations, upgrades, and retirement of legacy infrastructure.
• Lead complex incident response and problem management, including root-cause analysis and stakeholder communications.
• Establish operational standards for monitoring, patching, configuration, vulnerability remediation, change control, and support readiness.
• Develop and exercise backup, restoration, failover, and disaster recovery capabilities; document risks and actions.
• Collaborate with application and database teams to translate workload requirements into compute, storage, protection, and recovery designs.
• Drive automation and repeatable engineering practices to reduce manual effort and risk.
• Manage vendor relationships, evaluations, proposals, SLAs, renewals, and statements of work.

Conocimientos

Linux

Team Leadership

Incident Management

Automation

Vendor Management

Performance & Capacity

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Engineering or related field

Descripción del empleo

Dollar Tree, Inc. in Chesapeake, VA seeks a senior IT leader to own the reliability, performance, security, and lifecycle management of enterprise Linux servers, virtualization, storage, backup, and disaster recovery services.

You will lead a team of systems engineers, partnering across Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, Application, Database, and Business Continuity teams to deliver stable, scalable, and resilient technology services.