Senior Linux Patch Engineer - Remote Contract

VDart Inc; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Part time

Job summary

VDart Inc. is seeking a skilled Patch Engineer to manage enterprise Linux/Unix patch lifecycles across large-scale environments.

The role emphasizes coordinating maintenance windows, testing patches, and ensuring compliance with security standards in a remote setting. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience with Red Hat, AIX, and automation tooling, plus strong collaboration with infrastructure, security, change management, and operations teams to deploy patches and validate system

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Linux patch management in enterprise environments.
• Experience with Red Hat Satellite Server for patching, provisioning, system management, and compliance.
• Strong experience with IBM AIX Operating systems managing LPARs via VIOs and NIM servers.
• Experience automating patching and system administration tasks using Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or shell scripting.
• Strong understanding of the patch management lifecycle, including testing, deployment, rollback, validation, and reporting.
• Experience with vulnerability remediation and security patching.
• Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks such as CISA Kev, PCI DSS, HIPAA, SOX.
• Experience working with ticketing and change management tools such as ServiceNow.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux operating systems, networking, storage, and application dependencies.
• Knowledge of Linux services and protocols such as DNS, SSH, HTTP/HTTPS, NFS, LDAP, DHCP, FTP, BIND, NAS, and SAN.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams in a remote enterprise support model.
• Strong documentation, communication, and coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end Linux / Unix patching activities across enterprise server environments.
• Perform patch planning, scheduling, testing, deployment, validation, and post-patching support.
• Patch and remediate vulnerabilities across Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AIX, and other enterprise Unix platforms.
• Provide post patching support for failed systems and triaging issues until resolution under on call roster
• Expertise with enterprise tools such as Red Hat Satellite Server, Ansible, Puppet, NIM , VIOS , BigFix or similar automation/configuration management platforms to automate patching and system maintenance.
• Coordinate patch deployments in staging and production environments while minimizing business impact and downtime.
• Troubleshoot patching issues, failed deployments, dependency conflicts, OS-level errors, and application-related impacts.
• Support vulnerability remediation efforts based on scan results from tools such as Qualys, CrowdStrike, Defender, or similar security platforms.
• Maintain patching schedules, remediation plans, compliance reports, and operational documentation.
• Work with change management teams to create, submit, track, and close change requests using tools such as ServiceNow.
• Support infrastructure monitoring, logging, and reporting using tools such as Splunk, Dynatrace and SolarWinds or similar tools.
• Collaborate with application owners, security teams, and infrastructure teams to validate system health after patching.
• Participate in incident, problem, request, and change management processes.

Skills

Unix / Linux

Patching

AIX

Red Hat

DNS

CISA Kev

PCI DSS

HIPAA

SOX

Tools

Ansible

Puppet

Chef

Shell scripting

NIM servers

VIOs

Job description

VDart Inc. is seeking a skilled Patch Engineer to manage enterprise Linux/Unix patch lifecycles across large-scale environments.

The role emphasizes coordinating maintenance windows, testing patches, and ensuring compliance with security standards in a remote setting. The ideal candidate will have 8+ years of experience with Red Hat, AIX, and automation tooling, plus strong collaboration with infrastructure, security, change management, and operations teams to deploy patches and validate system