Senior Linux Platform Engineer - Cloud, Automation & DevOps

Society of Fire Protection Engineers; College Park (MD); Hybrid; USD 132,000 - 159,000; Full time

Job summary

University of Maryland, College Park, IT Division seeks an IT Platform Engineer Senior to join the Enterprise Linux Services team. The role focuses on Linux system administration across on-prem, virtual, and cloud environments, driving automation and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities include deploying patches, provisioning new machines, managing configurations with Puppet/Ansible/Satellite, and leveraging AWS CloudFormation for cloud solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Four years of professional enterprise IT experience required.
• Strong written and oral communication skills.
• Experience implementing and managing enterprise Linux solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise Linux services and platform engineering.
• Deploy OS patches and provision new machines.
• Manage configuration states and cloud deployments.
• Troubleshoot on-prem and cloud environments for uptime.

Skills

Linux admin

DevOps

Automation

AWS CloudFormation

GitLab CI/CD

Puppet

Ansible

Docker

Python scripting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS

GitLab

Puppet

Ansible

Satellite

Job description

University of Maryland, College Park, IT Division seeks an IT Platform Engineer Senior to join the Enterprise Linux Services team. The role focuses on Linux system administration across on-prem, virtual, and cloud environments, driving automation and DevOps practices.

Responsibilities include deploying patches, provisioning new machines, managing configurations with Puppet/Ansible/Satellite, and leveraging AWS CloudFormation for cloud solutions.