Lead Linux Infrastructure & Automation Engineer

Skyline Technology Solutions, LLC.; Glen Burnie (MD); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Skyline Technology Solutions, LLC. seeks a senior Linux Systems Engineer to own the Linux infrastructure, automation practice, and day-to-day leadership of a two-person team within Central Operations.

You will collaborate with the Central Operations Manager to shape how the team operates and delivers reliable infrastructure to internal and external stakeholders. You will drive GitOps adoption, implement Ansible-based automation, define monitoring standards, and ensure high-quality telemetry

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field.
• ITIL Foundation preferred.
• 5+ years of advanced Linux system administration in an enterprise or managed services environment.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, or both.
• Experience with Ansible for configuration management and automation.
• Familiarity with CMDB practices and configuration tracking.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking, routing, and firewall concepts.
• Working knowledge of Grafana, OpenNMS, and Zabbix.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu.
• KVM virtualization Experience.
• Experience with CloudStack administration and cloud orchestration.
• Experience with Linux security hardening and compliance practices.
• Comfort leading a small team and driving process adoption.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve operational tooling, workflows, and automation that reduce manual effort and improve reliability.
• Define and drive GitOps adoption across the entire Operations team, building the habits and tooling required.
• Use Ansible as the primary configuration management tool, including playbook and role development, inventory management, and automated remediation workflows.
• Bash and Python scripting to build out the broader automation practice, covering system deployment, scheduled validation runs, and testing against defined baselines.
• Administer and tune KVM and CloudStack environments to meet performance and capacity needs.
• Work alongside Skyline Platform Team to support Kubernetes environments as a secondary resource.
• Own and improve the CMDB practice end to end, from automated discovery, auditing and validation through change tracking and reporting.
• Storage architecture awareness and backup support for storage team; understand storage types and their interactions.
• Ongoing improvement of monitoring and alerting practices to support early detection of issues.
• Ensure telemetry is high quality, consistent, and operationally useful across environments through dashboards and alerts.
• Partner with stakeholders to review observability needs and translate requirements into monitoring solutions.
• Support maintenance, enhancement, and reliability of observability systems for internal and engineering use cases.
• Define tasking and support for two engineers on the team; mentor and peer review.

Skills

Linux administration

Scripting Bash/Python

Ansible

CMDB practices

Networking basics

Grafana/OpenNMS/Zabbix

Terraform/OpenTofu

KVM virtualization

CloudStack

Security hardening

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Ansible

Grafana

OpenNMS

Zabbix

Terraform/OpenTofu

KVM

CloudStack

Job description

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Full Time Glen Burnie, MD, US

30+ days ago Requisition ID: 1156

Salary Range: $120,000.00 To $150,000.00 Annually

This role with our Central Operations team provides direct ownership of the Linux infrastructure, the automation practice, and the day-to-day direction of two engineers on your team. You will work directly alongside the Central Operations Manager as a technical leadership partner, helping shape how the team operates, where it can improve, and how it delivers support to internal teams and external stakeholders.

The systems you support underpin transportation and public safety operations that require reliable infrastructure.

You can expect to spend your time accomplishing the following:

• 40% of the time on Objective 1: Infrastructure Automation and Systems Operations
• 30% of the time on Objective 2: Observability and Monitoring
• 20% of the time on Objective 3: Team Leadership and Development
• 10% of the time on Objective 4: Standards Documentation and Collaboration

Job Responsibilities – What to Expect

• Develop and improve operational tooling, workflows, and automation that reduce manual effort and improve the reliability and scalability of day-to-day systems operations.
• Define and drive GitOps adoption across the entire Operations team, building the habits and tooling required.
  • Use Ansible as the primary configuration management tool, including playbook and role development, inventory management, and automated remediation workflows.
  • Bash and Python scripting to build out the broader automation practice, covering system deployment, scheduled validation runs, and testing against defined baselines.
• Administer and tune KVM and CloudStack environments to meet performance and capacity needs
• Work alongside the Skyline Platform Team to support Kubernetes environments as a secondary resource.
  • The expectation is a solid working understanding of the environment, how workloads are structured, and how deployments are managed.
• Own and improve the CMDB practice end to end, from automated discovery, auditing and validation through change tracking and reporting
• Storage architecture awareness and backup support for our storage team
  • Maintain a working understanding of storage architecture and how different storage types interact with the systems you support
• Ongoing improvement of monitoring and alerting practices to support early detection of issues before they become service-impacting. This means building toward meaningful coverage, well-tuned alerts, and monitoring standards that reduce noise and surface what matters.
• Ensure telemetry is high quality, consistent, and operationally useful across environments through the development and refinement of dashboards, alerts, and supporting configurations.
• Partner with stakeholders to review observability needs, improve visibility into system and service health, and translate operational requirements into effective monitoring solutions.
• Support the ongoing maintenance, enhancement, and reliability of observability systems that serve both internal operational needs and broader engineering use cases.
• Define tasking and support for the two engineers on your team
• Serve as a mentor, escalation point, and peer reviewer for the broader Operations team, with a focus on automation practices and configuration management
• Develop and maintain clear operational documentation, including runbooks, standards, and implementation guidance for automation and observability systems

Your Knowledge & Expertise

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
• ITIL Foundation preferred
• 5 or more years of advanced Linux system administration in an enterprise or managed services environment
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Bash, Python, or both
• Experience with Ansible for configuration management and automation
• Familiarity with CMDB practices and configuration tracking
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP networking, routing, and firewall concepts
• Working knowledge of Grafana, OpenNMS, and Zabbix
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or OpenTofu
• KVM virtualization Experience
• Experience with CloudStack administration and cloud orchestration
• Experience with Linux security hardening and compliance practices
• Comfort leading a small team and driving process adoption