Senior Linux Compute Engineer (L3) - AWS & Terraform

Genius Business Solutions; Hartford (CT); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Genius Business Solutions Inc. (GBSI) seeks a highly skilled Linux Compute Engineer (L3 SME) to act as the top technical escalation point for Linux/Unix infrastructure. The role focuses on large-scale environments, automation via Infrastructure as Code, patching, and ensuring stability, scalability, and compliance.

You will lead incident resolution and contribute to CI/CD for infra deployments. Ideal candidates will have deep experience with RHEL/Oracle Linux/CentOS/SUSE and Unix, strong AWS

Qualifications

• Experience with Linux/Unix infrastructure and troubleshooting.
• Familiarity with cloud services and IaC tools.
• Ability to lead escalation and incident resolution.

Responsibilities

• Act as L3 SME and escalation point for Linux/Unix infrastructure.
• Manage and support Linux/Unix environments (RHEL, Oracle Linux, CentOS, SUSE, Unix).
• Perform advanced troubleshooting of OS, kernel, filesystem, storage, networking, and performance issues.
• Lead OS patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure system availability, stability, scalability, and compliance.
• Drive resolution of critical incidents and conduct RCA with preventive measures.
• Review and approve compute infrastructure changes.
• Conduct capacity planning and resource optimization.
• Implement proactive monitoring and self-healing mechanisms.
• Reduce toil through automation and operational innovation.
• Develop and maintain shell scripting and automation solutions.
• Automate provisioning, patching, compliance checks, and operational tasks.
• Contribute to IaC practices using Terraform.
• Support CI/CD integration for infrastructure deployment activities.

Skills

Compute – Linux (RHEL, Oracle Linux, I

AWS Cloud Services

Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)

Job description

Genius Business Solutions Inc. (GBSI) seeks a highly skilled Linux Compute Engineer (L3 SME) to act as the top technical escalation point for Linux/Unix infrastructure. The role focuses on large-scale environments, automation via Infrastructure as Code, patching, and ensuring stability, scalability, and compliance.

You will lead incident resolution and contribute to CI/CD for infra deployments. Ideal candidates will have deep experience with RHEL/Oracle Linux/CentOS/SUSE and Unix, strong AWS