Senior Linux & Virtualization Architect

Red Oak Technologies

Madison Heights (MI)

Hybrid

USD 158,000 - 193,000

Full time

6 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule
Short-term incentive plan

Job summary

Red Oak Technologies is seeking a Principal Engineer for Linux and Virtualization Infrastructure in a hybrid role. The position involves designing, modernizing, and supporting scalable and secure infrastructure across data centers and production environments.

You will lead architecture, implementation, and optimization of enterprise Linux, virtualization, and storage platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or equivalent.
  • Seventh+ years of Linux systems administration/engineering experience.
  • Advanced Linux/Unix administration experience.
  • Strong networking and SAN storage fundamentals.
  • Experience with VMware, Proxmox, Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Experience managing complex infrastructure projects.
  • Knowledge of enterprise storage, virtualization, high availability, backups and DR.
  • Windows OS knowledge.

Responsibilities

  • Design greenfield data center deployments and modernize existing infrastructure.
  • Manage and optimize Linux, compute, storage, and virtualization platforms.
  • Maintain multiple virtualization clusters and lead capacity-planning efforts.
  • Research, design, implement, configure, and support new infrastructure technologies.
  • Co-manage Fibre Channel, VxLAN, SAN, and NAS environments.
  • Design highly available, fault-tolerant and disaster-recovery solutions.
  • Analyze application requirements to determine OS, storage, memory, CPU, and performance needs.
  • Design enterprise storage architectures based on capacity, I/O, availability and recovery.
  • Monitor infrastructure platforms and drive recovery and improvements.
  • Ensure platforms and applications are backed up per policies.
  • Partner with networking, security, and engineering teams to deliver solutions.
  • Serve as senior escalation resource for NOC during incidents.
  • Maintain documentation and support lab/testing environments.
  • Mentor engineers and contribute to future infrastructure strategy.

Skills

Linux administration
Team leadership
Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS

Tools

VMware
Proxmox
Docker
Kubernetes

Job description

Red Oak Technologies is seeking a Principal Engineer for Linux and Virtualization Infrastructure in a hybrid role. The position involves designing, modernizing, and supporting scalable and secure infrastructure across data centers and production environments.

You will lead architecture, implementation, and optimization of enterprise Linux, virtualization, and storage platforms, collaborating with cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers.

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