Production Engineer - Linux OS Modernization & Automation

Ontrac Solutions

Chicago (IL)

Hybrid

USD 120,000 - 150,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

Ontrac Solutions is seeking a high-aptitude Production Engineer (IC2) to support a large-scale enterprise OS modernization and infrastructure hardening program. This role blends Python tooling, RPM packaging, and CI/CD with hands-on runbooks and service onboarding, working with the client's SRE organization and internal teams.

Candidates should have 3+ years of software engineering with Python, strong Linux fleet experience, and experience in packaging migrations (Chef to CINC) and observability

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional software engineering experience with strong Python
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise Linux fleets and major OS upgrades (e.g., RHEL7→EL8/EL9)
  • Experience building RPM packages and handling dependencies/versioning
  • Independent bug ownership: triage, reproduce, fix, test, ship
  • Hardening CI/CD pipelines and rollout/rollback for large migrations
  • Tier-2 on-call support with incident response on existing platforms
  • Service onboarding to new monitoring/logging stacks
  • Automation and documentation of repeatable ops processes

Responsibilities

  • Drive legacy-to-modern Linux transitions (RHEL7→EL8/EL9)
  • Build and maintain RPM packages and migrate packaging from Chef to CINC
  • Create automated runbooks for repeatable migrations
  • Triage and resolve migration bugs end-to-end

Skills

Python programming
Automation
Incident response

Tools

RPM packaging
Chef to CINC migration
CI/CD tooling

Job description

Ontrac Solutions is seeking a high-aptitude Production Engineer (IC2) to support a large-scale enterprise OS modernization and infrastructure hardening program. This role blends Python tooling, RPM packaging, and CI/CD with hands-on runbooks and service onboarding, working with the client's SRE organization and internal teams.

Candidates should have 3+ years of software engineering with Python, strong Linux fleet experience, and experience in packaging migrations (Chef to CINC) and observability

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