Senior Linux Platform Engineer

Burlington Stores, Inc.; Beverly (NJ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

401(k) plan

Job summary

Burlington Stores, Inc. is looking for a Senior Linux Platform Engineer to manage Linux platforms supporting operations. This role requires hands-on experience with RHEL and SUSE, focusing on engineering, automation, and security in a 24x7 environment.

The ideal candidate will lead projects, enhance observability and recovery, and ensure compliance with security standards. Burlington offers a comprehensive benefits package, fostering a diverse workplace culture and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of hands-on Linux engineering experience in enterprise environments.
• Strong hands-on troubleshooting across OS, kernel, storage, and networking.
• Experience with automation tools like Ansible and Terraform.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain standards for enterprise Linux platforms.
• Lead troubleshooting for complex Linux incidents in production.
• Engineer Linux baselines aligned to security and compliance standards.

Skills

Linux troubleshooting

Automation using Ansible

DevOps practices

Cloud integrations

Security hardening

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Datadog

Nagios

Linux

Job description

The Senior Linux Platform Engineer is responsible for the engineering, automation, reliability, security, and lifecycle management of enterprise Linux platforms supporting corporate and distribution center operations. This role designs and maintains scalable Linux platform standards across RHEL and SUSE environments, drives automation and configuration consistency, supports production reliability, and serves as a senior technical escalation point for mission‑critical systems in a 24×7 retail environment. This is a hands‑on senior individual contributor role and will partner with infrastructure, cloud, application, database, security, and operations teams to deliver secure, resilient, supportable, and automated Linux platform services. The role is expected to lead technical projects end‑to‑end, reduce manual operational effort, improve observability and recovery capabilities, and help modernise the Linux platform estate. The position also provides technical direction and delivery coordination across internal teams, managed services providers, and offshore engineering resources to ensure the Linux platform is aligned to service levels, quality standards, operational priorities, and business needs.

Linux Platform Engineering, Automation, and Lifecycle Management

• Design, engineer, configure, and maintain enterprise Linux platform standards for RHEL and SUSE environments.
• Build and maintain automation using Ansible, Terraform, Bash, Python, Git, and CI/CD tooling.
• Develop repeatable patterns for provisioning, patching, configuration management, package deployment, access control, monitoring integration, and decommissioning.
• Own Linux OS lifecycle planning, including version currency, vendor supportability, patch compliance, firmware/driver dependencies, and upgrade roadmaps.
• Maintain and improve Linux images, templates, RPM/package standards, configuration baselines, and platform documentation.
• Evaluate and recommend platform improvements to increase scalability, reliability, security, and operational efficiency.

Production Reliability, Observability, and Operations Engineering

• Serve as a senior escalation point for complex Linux platform incidents in a 24×7 production environment.
• Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and permanent remediation for recurring or high‑impact issues.
• Define and maintain monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging, and operational health checks using tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Nagios, SolarWinds, or similar platforms.
• Drive capacity planning, performance analysis, tuning, and proactive risk remediation.
• Support disaster recovery planning, testing, documentation, and continuous improvement.
• Participate in on‑call rotation and maintenance windows for critical platforms.

Security, Compliance, and Governance

• Engineer Linux platform baselines aligned to internal security standards, SOX, PCI‑DSS, and audit requirements.
• Implement and maintain access controls, privileged access practices, encryption, logging, auditing, vulnerability remediation, and configuration compliance.Partner with cybersecurity and audit teams to remediate findings and provide evidence of control effectiveness.
• Improve security posture through standard hardening patterns, automated compliance checks, and remediation workflows.

Virtualization, Cloud, Storage, Backup, and Modernisation

• Engineer and support Linux workloads running on private and public cloud.
• Engineer and support SAN/NAS, backup/recovery, and related storage services.
• Partner with cloud and application teams on migration, modernization, and hybrid‑cloud enablement where appropriate.
• Support Linux integration with DNS, DHCP, SSO, LDAP/Active Directory, NTP, and other network services.
• Support cloud‑native container, serverless and PaaS modernisation initiatives.

Technical Leadership, Managed Services Coordination, Standards, and Documentation

• Lead assigned Linux engineering projects from planning through implementation, communication, change execution, and post‑change validation.
• Develop technical standards, diagrams, runbooks, implementation plans, operational procedures, and recovery documentation.
• Mentor administrators and junior engineers on Linux platform practices, automation, troubleshooting, and change discipline.
• Provide day‑to‑day technical guidance and work prioritisation.
• Collaborate with application, database, security, cloud, infrastructure, vendor, and business teams to deliver stable and supportable solutions.
• Coordinate work with managed services providers and offshore engineering resources, ensuring alignment to service levels, operational priorities, quality standards, and defined processes.
• Manage handoffs, escalations, and cross‑time‑zone collaboration across hybrid onshore/offshore delivery models.
• Hold internal and external technical resources accountable for execution quality through clear expectations, feedback, governance, and adherence to change, incident, and problem‑management practices.

You’ll Come With

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of hands‑on Linux engineering, systems engineering, DevOps, or platform engineering experience in enterprise production environments.
• Strong experience with RHEL and/or SUSE Linux in mission‑critical environments.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting skills across OS, kernel, storage, networking, authentication, services, performance, and application dependencies.
• Experience with automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Bash, Python, Git, and CI/CD tooling.
• Strong understanding of vSphere or similar virtualization platforms, compute, server hardware, firmware, and lifecycle management.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, alerting, and operational health tools such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Nagios, SolarWinds, New Relic, or similar.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NTP, LDAP/Active Directory integration, VPN, routing, firewall dependencies, and load‑balancing concepts.
• Experience with enterprise storage and backup technologies, including SAN, NAS, RAID, NFS, CIFS, Veeam, NetBackup, Rubrik, or similar.
• Experience supporting security hardening, vulnerability remediation, access controls, auditing, and compliance requirements such as SOX and PCI‑DSS.
• Ability to lead technical projects independently, develop implementation plans, communicate risks, execute changes, and drive issues to closure.
• Strong communication skills with technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience working with managed services providers, including offshore technical delivery teams.
• Experience directing, coordinating, and overseeing offshore or external engineering resources to ensure alignment with service levels, operational standards, quality expectations, business priorities and cross‑time‑zone collaboration.
• Hands‑on experience leading and mentoring junior engineers or administrators, including providing technical guidance, work prioritisation, and day‑to‑day direction.
• Experience holding internal and external technical resources accountable through clear expectations, performance feedback, defined processes, and governance.

Benefits and EEO Statement

Burlington’s benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage, life and disability insurance. Full‑time associates are also eligible for paid time off, paid holidays and a 401(k) plan. We are a rapidly growing brand and provide a variety of training and development opportunities so our associates can grow with us. Our teams work hard and have fun together. Burlington associates make a difference in the lives of customers, colleagues, and the communities where we live and work every day. Burlington Stores, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity.