Linux Consultant

Spectraforce; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce is seeking a highly skilled RHEL Engineer to support a financial services client by automating OS security and patching, and to lead the strategy and execution of CI/CD components for faster remediation and upgrades.

In this role you will bridge current state architecture and a modern, automated upgrade workflow, collaborate with Red Hat Engineering, and drive design sessions to identify automation opportunities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with RHEL deployments, hardening, and operations.
• Proven ability to design and automate CI/CD processes to speed deployments.
• Strong proficiency with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and workflows.
• Knowledge of Kpatch and applicable use cases; Python skills.

Responsibilities

• Strategy & Architecture Design: identify upgrade pain points and design future state processes.
• Automation & Execution: build automation for patching, snapshot, upgrade, and rollback.
• Validation & Documentation: create standard upgrade workflows and knowledge-base assets.
• Technical Oversight & Facilitation: lead workshops, coordinate with Red Hat, report progress weekly.

Skills

RHEL deployments

CI/CD pipelines

Ansible

Kpatch

Python

Workshop facilitation

Technical documentation

Vendor coordination

Executive communication

Tools

Kpatch

Job description

Job Title-: RH Ansible Automation Platform Sr. Consultant

Duration-: 16 months

location-: Remote

Start Date: ASAP

This role requires a background check, fingerprinting and onboarding process which typically takes 4-6 weeks. The start date is dependent on completion of these requirements.

Note - Candidate must be able to pass a background check and willing to sign financial disclosure forms with the customer

Required Work Hours:

• Must be willing to start by 6:00AM EST to overlap with the primary Customer who is located in London.

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly-skilled RHEL Engineer to provide technical expertise and advisory services supporting a leading financial services customer with automating the OS security and patching processes to more efficiently and frequently execute vulnerability remediations and upgrades. In this role, you will lead the strategy and execution of identifying, designing, and automating CI/CD components to accelerate patching and upgrade timelines. You will act as the technical lead, bridging the gap between current state architecture and a modern, automated upgrade workflow.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Architecture Design:
• Conduct solutions design sessions to identify current upgrade pain points.
• Assist the Customer with identifying automation opportunities and designing and documenting future state patching / upgrade processes.
• Automation & Execution:
• Develop automation to improve the speed and reliability of certification and distribution of kernel/OS config snapshots.
• Investigating Kpatch and identifying opportunities to use it as an even faster route to deploy in some scenarios.
• Develop and refine automation playbooks for snapshot, upgrade, rollback, and patching commit tasks.
• Execute the patching / upgrade workflow and troubleshoot alongside Red Hat Engineering teams.
• Refine automation processes to support diverse system types across the infrastructure.
• Validation & Documentation:
• Create and maintain a standard RHEL patching / upgrade workflow (pre-analysis, remediation, snapshot, validation, rollback, and commit).
• Build a knowledge-base for the in-place upgrade process for internal release.
• Technical Oversight & Facilitation:
• Facilitate workshops to fill technical knowledge gaps and capture upgrade dependencies.
• Identify beta users and test/validate the upgrade process at scale.
• Provide weekly status reports to the Red Hat Project Manager to ensure transparency on project status, risks, and decision-making.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Proven 10+ years of experience with RHEL deployments, hardening, and operations.
• Proven understanding of CI/CD pipelines and engagement experience with automating processes to accelerate deployment timelines.
• Strong proficiency in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and building automation workflows.
• Understanding of Kpatch and applicable use cases
• Strong proficiency in Python
• Ability to facilitate technical workshops and lead architectural decision-making.
• Experience in creating technical documentation and knowledge-base assets.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities, including coordination with vendor engineering teams.
• Experience in managing technical scope and communicating progress to executive stakeholders.