RHEL Systems Engineer — Enterprise Linux & Cloud Infra

The Clearing House; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

The Clearing House is seeking a Linux Systems Engineer to design, implement, and maintain large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms across on‑premises virtualization and AWS cloud environments. You will collaborate with Security, Architecture, and Operations to enforce hardening standards and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure.

You will support a 24x7 production environment, participate in on-call rotations, and drive patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management while

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience administering RHEL in large enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud fundamentals and enterprise design patterns.
• Experience with RHEL 8.x/9.x on x86_64, VMware and AWS.
• Knowledge of DNS/LDAP/AD integration and firewall basics.
• Experience with backup/recovery technologies (PPDM).
• Willingness to participate in 24x7 on-call as required.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, implement, and support enterprise RHEL platforms across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Establish and maintain Linux engineering standards, baselines, hardening, and lifecycle processes.
• Collaborate with Security and Architecture to enforce hardening standards and baselines.
• Integrate RHEL with monitoring, security, backup, logging, and configuration tools.
• Validate patches and OS updates per change management and vulnerability rules.
• Evaluate upgrades to OS, drivers, firmware, and components prior to production.
• Implement security configurations to meet enterprise/regulatory requirements.
• Partner with various teams to design future-state Linux platforms and services.
• Participate in on-call coverage for production incidents and maintenance.

Skills

RHEL expertise

VMware experience

AWS cloud

Troubleshooting

Security hardening

Documentation

On-call support

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

VMware vSphere

AWS

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager

PPDM

Job description

The Clearing House is seeking a Linux Systems Engineer to design, implement, and maintain large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux platforms across on‑premises virtualization and AWS cloud environments. You will collaborate with Security, Architecture, and Operations to enforce hardening standards and ensure reliable, secure, and scalable infrastructure.

You will support a 24x7 production environment, participate in on-call rotations, and drive patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management while