Linux System Engineer with Oracle

Galent; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Galent is seeking a seasoned Oracle Linux platform engineer to lead the administration, monitoring, and performance tuning in a large-scale enterprise. You will drive automation, observability, and operational excellence to scale complex infrastructure.

This role requires deep experience with high availability, clustering, security hardening, and collaboration with DevOps and security teams. Mentoring junior engineers and shaping best practices in reliability are key responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Experience leading Oracle Linux administration and platform engineering in enterprises.
• Automation and configuration management using Azure DevOps and Ansible.
• Strong Bash scripting for automation and troubleshooting.
• Manage high-availability environments, clustering, and load balancing.
• System tuning, reliability engineering, and scalability planning.
• Security hardening, patch management, and compliance practices.
• Collaborate across infrastructure, app, DevOps, and security teams.
• Documentation, leadership, and mentoring skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead Oracle Linux administration and platform engineering initiatives.
• Drive automation, monitoring, and reliability across the fleet.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure security and compliance.

Skills

Bash/Shell Scripting

Site Reliability Engineering

High Availability & Clustering

Infrastructure Automation

LVM Administration

NFS Administration

TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, RPC

Monitoring & Observability

Incident Management & RCA

Security Hardening & Vulnerability Mgm

Tools

Ansible

Azure DevOps

Job description

Lead the administration, monitoring, and performance tuning of Oracle Linux environments with a focus on platform architecture, automation, reliability engineering, and operational excellence. Drive infrastructure scalability, automation, observability, and security in a large-scale enterprise ecosystem.

Required Skills

• Bash/Shell Scripting
• Ansible
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• High Availability (HA) and Clustering
• Infrastructure Automation
• LVM Administration
• NFS Administration
• TCP/IP, HTTP, HTTPS, RPC
• Monitoring and Observability Frameworks
• Incident Management and Root Cause Analysis
• Security Hardening and Vulnerability Management

Qualifications

• Experience leading Oracle Linux administration and platform engineering initiatives in enterprise environments.
• Experience implementing automation and configuration management using Azure DevOps and Ansible.
• Strong Bash/Shell scripting skills for automation and troubleshooting.
• Experience managing high-availability environments, clustering, and load balancing.
• Knowledge of system performance tuning, reliability engineering, and scalability planning.
• Experience with security hardening, patch management, and compliance practices.
• Ability to collaborate across infrastructure, application, DevOps, and security teams.
• Strong documentation, leadership, and mentoring capabilities.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, citizenship status, age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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