Senior Linux Platform Manager - Automation & Cloud

The Judge Group; Burlington (NJ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

The Judge Group is seeking a Manager, Linux Platform in Burlington, NJ to lead a team of 5-9 engineers and administrators. You will drive modernization across on-prem and cloud, emphasize automation (Ansible/Terraform), and ensure platform reliability, security, and incident response.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep Linux expertise, strong Azure experience, and a track record of transforming operations while managing budgets and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related discipline, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience supporting enterprise Linux environments, including RHEL and/or SUSE.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience managing System Engineers, Platform Engineers, Infrastructure Engineers, or DevOps teams.
• Demonstrated success leading teams through operational or technology transformation initiatives.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Azure cloud services and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Deep expertise in Linux administration, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and system optimization.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere.
• Strong understanding of networking protocols and services including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, NTP, VPN, and load balancing technologies.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog, Dynatrace, Nagios, SolarWinds, or equivalent.
• Knowledge of enterprise backup and recovery solutions including Veeam, Rubrik, or NetBackup.
• Experience supporting highly available, 24x7 production environments.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of 5-9 System Engineers and Administrators, including both full-time employees and consultants.
• Establish clear goals, performance expectations, and accountability measures.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, technical excellence, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Drive organizational and operational change initiatives to improve team effectiveness and platform maturity.
• Manage workload prioritization, resource planning, succession planning, and on-call rotations.
• Partner with vendors and service providers to ensure service quality and SLA compliance.
• Collaborate with Finance and Procurement to manage budgets, licensing, renewals, vendor contracts, and cloud spend.
• Oversee the administration, configuration, patching, maintenance, and optimization of enterprise Linux environments, including RHEL and SUSE.
• Lead infrastructure modernization efforts across on-premises and cloud platforms.
• Drive automation using Ansible, Terraform, Bash scripting, and CI/CD tools.
• Support cloud-native technologies, containers, platform services, and infrastructure-as-code initiatives.
• Serve as the primary escalation point for complex production incidents and critical outages.
• Lead root cause analysis (RCA) efforts and implement permanent corrective actions.
• Manage platform lifecycle planning, capacity management, and technology upgrades.
• Oversee enterprise backup, recovery, storage, NAS, and SAN environments.

Skills

Linux

Azure

Leadership

Automation

Ansible

Terraform

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Puppet

VMware vSphere

Datadog

Dynatrace

Nagios

SolarWinds

Job description

The Judge Group is seeking a Manager, Linux Platform in Burlington, NJ to lead a team of 5-9 engineers and administrators. You will drive modernization across on-prem and cloud, emphasize automation (Ansible/Terraform), and ensure platform reliability, security, and incident response.

This hands-on leadership role requires deep Linux expertise, strong Azure experience, and a track record of transforming operations while managing budgets and cross-functional collaboration.