Senior Linux Platform & SRE Engineer (Hybrid)

BCforward

Plano (TX)

Hybrid

USD 78,000 - 111,000

Part time

13 days ago

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Job summary

BCforward is seeking a Senior Linux Platform / SRE Infrastructure Engineer to join our team for a 11‑month contract in a hybrid role requiring minimum 3 days onsite. The ideal candidate will have strong Oracle Enterprise Linux expertise, automation experience with Ansible, and a track record of improving reliability, performance, and scalability across enterprise environments.

You will lead Linux administration, design and manage HA environments, and drive SRE practices including SLIs/SLOs.

Qualifications

5+ years of Linux system administration in enterprise environments.
Strong expertise with Oracle Enterprise Linux and Fleet Patching and Provisioning (FPP).
Proven experience with HA systems, virtualization, and storage management.
Hands-on experience with automation and configuration management tools, preferably Ansible.
Proficiency in Bash or Python.
Strong troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident management skills.
Solid understanding of compute, storage, and networking.
Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
Documentation discipline for architecture, processes, and operational procedures.
Adherence to change management and incident governance frameworks.

Responsibilities

Lead administration, monitoring, and performance tuning of Oracle Enterprise Linux in large-scale environments.
Oversee design, build, and lifecycle management of Linux servers, including storage, virtualization, and infrastructure.
Manage HA, clustering, and load-balanced environments for minimal downtime.
Drive capacity planning, performance optimization, and scalability.
Define and implement SRE principles, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Lead infrastructure automation for provisioning, configuration, and patching using Ansible.
Build and maintain self-healing systems and deployment automation.
Install, configure, and maintain OEL OS and related software stacks.
Manage LVM, distributed file systems, NFS, and automount configurations.
Maintain DNS, NTP, LDAP/Kerberos, SMTP, and OpenSSH services.
Troubleshoot TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, and RPC protocols.
Implement and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability frameworks.
Lead incident response, RCA, postmortems, and drive continuous improvement.
Ensure security hardening, compliance, patching, and vulnerability remediation.
Provide technical leadership, mentorship, and enforce operational standards and runbooks.