Senior Linux & OpenStack Automation Engineer

RRD Company; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 92,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

RRD is seeking a Senior Linux & Infrastructure Automation Engineer to scale and maintain the Valassis DMT platform environment. This individual contributor role emphasizes hands‑on Linux systems administration, declarative configuration with Puppet and Ansible, and high‑availability cloud infrastructure across hybrid environments.

You will design automation, manage OpenStack and virtualization layers, and ensure secure, compliant operations on bare‑metal and cloud targets with Ubuntu as a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering discipline, or equivalent professional work experience.

Responsibilities

• Infrastructure Automation & Configuration Management: Design, develop, and maintain declarative configuration modules using Puppet and Ansible to automate system provisioning, application deployment, and continuous compliance across bare‑metal and virtualized nodes.

Skills

Linux Administration

Automation & CM

Orchestration & Virtualization

Storage Fundamentals

Identity & Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, or related

Tools

Puppet

Ansible

OpenStack

KVM

LXD

ESXi

MAAS

Ceph

PureStorage

Job description

RRD is seeking a Senior Linux & Infrastructure Automation Engineer to scale and maintain the Valassis DMT platform environment. This individual contributor role emphasizes hands‑on Linux systems administration, declarative configuration with Puppet and Ansible, and high‑availability cloud infrastructure across hybrid environments.

You will design automation, manage OpenStack and virtualization layers, and ensure secure, compliant operations on bare‑metal and cloud targets with Ubuntu as a