Senior Linux Platform Architect - Remote

University of Texas at Austin

United States

Hybrid

USD 130,000 - 170,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package
Tuition assistance
Training and conference opportunities
Travel for training

Job summary

University of Texas at Austin is seeking a Senior IT Architect - Linux to lead the design and governance of the university’s Linux endpoint management platform. You will drive enterprise standards, collaborate with distributed IT teams, and guide secure, scalable deployment across Linux environments.

The role offers flexible work within the United States, a 40-hour week, and a two-year funding window with potential extension. Join a university renowned for research and student impact.

Qualifications

  • Advanced Linux expertise across RHEL/Ubuntu/Debian and related distros.

Responsibilities

  • Lead design and continuous improvement of a central Linux management platform.
  • Develop onboarding plans and documentation for campus IT teams.
  • Design automation for provisioning, patching, and compliance reporting.
  • Provide guidance across physical, virtual, containerized, and cloud Linux systems.
  • Create dashboards and reports for platform adoption and health.
  • Align Linux platform services with enterprise cloud architecture standards.
  • Mentor staff and influence service design and adoption.

Skills

Linux architecture
Onboarding teams
Automation
Scripting
Communication
Problem solving
Security/compliance

Tools

Tanium
Chef
Puppet
Ansible
Salt
Red Hat Satellite
Splunk
Grafana
Prometheus
Kubernetes

Job description

University of Texas at Austin is seeking a Senior IT Architect - Linux to lead the design and governance of the university’s Linux endpoint management platform. You will drive enterprise standards, collaborate with distributed IT teams, and guide secure, scalable deployment across Linux environments.

The role offers flexible work within the United States, a 40-hour week, and a two-year funding window with potential extension. Join a university renowned for research and student impact.

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