Senior Linux Engineer — Onsite in Atlanta

BBG Ventures, LLC; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k

Job summary

BBG Ventures, LLC is seeking a Senior Linux Engineer on a contract basis to support a major investment management client. The role is 4 days onsite in Atlanta, GA, with responsibilities spanning building, operating, and improving Linux-based infrastructure using IaC, automation, and cloud-native practices.

The candidate will serve as a hands-on contributor, resolving complex issues, collaborating with delivery teams, and guiding peers.

Qualifications

• Strong enterprise-level experience administering and supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools (Puppet, Git, Packer; Ansible and Terraform preferred).
• Experience working with CI/CD pipeline tools (GitHub Actions, GitLab).
• Experience in hybrid environments, with solid exposure to AWS infrastructure and services.
• Practical experience deploying, patching and maintaining Linux servers and/or containers using native tooling (e.g., Red Hat Satellite).
• Familiarity with container technologies and cloud-based SaaS, PaaS and IaaS platforms.
• Working knowledge of security and identity platforms, including Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions such as the Delinea Cloud Suite and how they integrate with infrastructure platforms.
• Experience designing and supporting Linux workloads running on VMware, Nutanix or equivalent virtualised environments.
• Familiarity with enterprise logging, monitoring and observability platforms such as Splunk

Responsibilities

• Engineering and supporting Unix/Linux platforms across on-premises and cloud environments using DevOps principles, with minimal supervision.
• Building, maintaining and enhancing Infrastructure as Code solutions using tools such as Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, and Git.
• Acting as a Unix/Linux subject matter expert within Agile delivery squads, helping shape technical approaches and resolving non-routine platform challenges.
• Developing and maintaining automation using modern scripting and tooling languages (e.g., Go, TypeScript) to reduce manual effort and operational risk.
• Collaborating with application, cloud and security teams to design and implement secure, reliable and scalable Linux-based solutions.
• Ensuring systems are configured in line with security, regulatory, audit and operational resilience requirements.
• Troubleshooting complex platform and infrastructure issues that impact business-critical services.
• Leading small technical initiatives or workstreams with manageable risk, contributing to platform standards, best practices and continuous improvement.

Skills

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

DevOps

Cloud infrastructure

Scripting & automation

Tools

Puppet

Git

Packer

Ansible

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Red Hat Satellite

VMware

Nutanix

Splunk

Job description

BBG Ventures, LLC is seeking a Senior Linux Engineer on a contract basis to support a major investment management client. The role is 4 days onsite in Atlanta, GA, with responsibilities spanning building, operating, and improving Linux-based infrastructure using IaC, automation, and cloud-native practices.

The candidate will serve as a hands-on contributor, resolving complex issues, collaborating with delivery teams, and guiding peers.