Senior Endpoint Linux Platform Engineer

Blue Origin; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 112,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401(k) with company match

Education Support Program

Paid Time Off

Stock Options

Job summary

Blue Origin is seeking an Endpoint Administration expert to design, build, and operate the Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstation platform for engineers within Enterprise Technology. You will implement secure baselines, automation, and imaging paths across the fleet while ensuring reliability and security.

Responsibilities include IaC development, imaging automation, security-by-design, and cross-team collaboration with security, architecture, and operations to support mission-critical

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in information technology in system administration or systems engineering.
• Strong Linux system administration skills, with Red Hat Enterprise Linux experience required.
• Windows Server administration for hosted application and services.
• Automation and Infrastructure as Code experience, with the ability to author reusable roles and playbooks; Ansible strongly preferred.
• Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, and/or PowerShell).
• Experience with endpoint provisioning and imaging at scale, including network boot and unattended installation.
• Active Directory administration and understanding of directory-integrated authentication on Linux.
• Experience implementing monitoring and alerting for services you own.
• Hardware and software troubleshooting and customer-service oriented attitude.

Responsibilities

• Linux workstation platform design, build, and operation for engineering users, including content management and lifecycle environments.
• Design and maintain reusable IaC modules, templates, and patterns for workstation provisioning and configuration.
• Build and maintain imaging paths and validate across the hardware catalog.
• Integrate security-by-design with secure baselines, disk encryption, and policy enforcement via automation.
• Produce imaging and support runbooks and ensure cross-team usability.
• Drive automated guardrails and pre-deployment validation for owned platforms.
• Define deliverables and select hardware/software/cloud solutions to meet project needs.
• Develop technical plans and lead cross-team infrastructure efforts relying on automation.
• Review and approve significant infrastructure and automation changes for standards alignment.
• Be a go-to resource for automation, provisioning, and infrastructure supporting fleet endpoints.
• Collaborate with security, architecture, and operations teams on security and reliability objectives.
• Independently analyze, resolve, and provide end-to-end problem resolution.
• Participate in on-call rotation and support flexible work hours.

Skills

Linux system administration

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Windows Server administration

Automation / Infrastructure as Code

Ansible

Scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell)

Endpoint provisioning and imaging

Active Directory administration

Monitoring and alerting

Customer-service mindset

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or Computer Science

Tools

Red Hat Satellite

Foreman

Git

Job description

Blue Origin is seeking an Endpoint Administration expert to design, build, and operate the Red Hat Enterprise Linux workstation platform for engineers within Enterprise Technology. You will implement secure baselines, automation, and imaging paths across the fleet while ensuring reliability and security.

Responsibilities include IaC development, imaging automation, security-by-design, and cross-team collaboration with security, architecture, and operations to support mission-critical