Senior Linux Systems Engineer - Cloud & On-Prem

PAYCO The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C.; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. is seeking a Linux Systems Engineer to design, deploy, and support enterprise RHEL platforms across on‑premises, VMware, and AWS cloud environments.

You will collaborate with Security, Architecture, and Operations to harden systems, ensure uptime, and implement robust backup and monitoring. Candidates should be comfortable with 24x7 on‑call rotations and cross‑functional teamwork.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience in CS/IT/Engineering.
• Extensive hands-on Red Hat Enterprise Linux administration in large enterprise environments.
• Cloud fundamentals and enterprise cloud design patterns.
• RHEL 8.x/9.x on x86_64, VMware and AWS workloads.
• Experience with LDAP/AD integration, DNS, firewalls, and backup tooling.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, implement, and support enterprise RHEL server platforms across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
• Maintain build processes, baselines, hardening standards, and lifecycle requirements.
• Collaborate with Security and Architecture to implement RHEL security standards and baselines.
• Integrate RHEL with monitoring, security, backup, logging, and configuration management tools.
• Apply security patches and verify OS updates per patching and remediation processes.
• Evaluate upgrades to OS, packages, drivers, firmware, and components before production.
• Maintain Linux security configurations to meet PCI DSS/ISO-like controls; partner with teams to plan future-state platforms.
• Participate in on-call coverage and after-hours activities for incidents and maintenance.

Skills

RHEL admin

VMware

AWS

Bash/Python

Security hardening

On-call support

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

PPDM

VMware vSphere

Dell EMC SAN

Job description

The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. is seeking a Linux Systems Engineer to design, deploy, and support enterprise RHEL platforms across on‑premises, VMware, and AWS cloud environments.

You will collaborate with Security, Architecture, and Operations to harden systems, ensure uptime, and implement robust backup and monitoring. Candidates should be comfortable with 24x7 on‑call rotations and cross‑functional teamwork.