Senior Red Hat Linux Platform Engineer

First Citizens Bank; North Carolina; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens Bank is seeking a Senior Red Hat Linux Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team. You will design, engineer, automate, and continually improve the enterprise Linux platform supporting critical banking applications.

Focus areas include RHEL, IaC, Ansible, security hardening, platform modernization, and highly available infrastructure. You will collaborate with architecture teams to drive standards and automation across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent and 8+ years of systems engineering experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and implement enterprise Red Hat Linux platform solutions.
• Develop Ansible roles, playbooks, and automation workflows.
• Lead platform modernization and operating system lifecycle management.
• Ensure security hardening and regulatory compliance.

Skills

Automation & IaC

Ansible development

Security engineering

Linux platform engineering

CI/CD integration

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent (CS/Engineering/IT)

Tools

Red Hat Satellite

Podman

SELinux

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Red Hat Linux Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for designing, engineering, automating, and continuously improving the enterprise Linux platform supporting critical banking and business applications. This role was adapted from the organization's AIX operations position and refocused toward platform engineering and automation.

Overview

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Red Hat Linux Platform Engineer to join our Infrastructure Engineering team responsible for designing, engineering, automating, and continuously improving the enterprise Linux platform supporting critical banking and business applications. This role was adapted from the organization's AIX operations position and refocused toward platform engineering and automation.

The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), enterprise automation, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Ansible development, security engineering, and platform modernization.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Linux Platform Engineering

• Design, engineer, and implement enterprise Red Hat Linux platform solutions supporting mission-critical applications.
• Develop platform standards, engineering patterns, and architectural best practices.
• Engineer highly available, resilient, and scalable Linux infrastructure solutions.
• Lead platform modernization, operating system lifecycle management, and technology refresh initiatives.
• Evaluate emerging Linux technologies and identify opportunities for platform enhancement.
• Partner with enterprise architecture teams to establish long-term Linux platform strategy.

Infrastructure Automation & Ansible Engineering

• Serve as a lead engineer for enterprise automation initiatives.
• Design, develop, test, maintain, and optimize enterprise-scale Ansible automation solutions.
• Create and maintain reusable Ansible roles, playbooks, collections, templates, and automation workflows.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code standards and automation governance processes.
• Build automated server provisioning, operating system configuration, patching, compliance remediation, and application deployment solutions.
• Integrate Ansible with CI/CD pipelines and enterprise platforms.
• Implement automated configuration drift detection and remediation capabilities.
• Establish code review, testing, source control, and release management processes for infrastructure automation.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Engineering

• Engineer and support Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments across production, development, testing, and disaster recovery environments.
• Design and manage operating system standards, hardening baselines, and configuration management frameworks.
• Lead Linux platform upgrades, version migrations, and technology modernization efforts.
• Engineer solutions utilizing:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
• Red Hat Satellite
• Red Hat Identity Management (IdM)
• Podman
• Systemd
• SELinux
• LVM
• Multipathing
• Optimize platform performance, scalability, and reliability.

Security Engineering & Compliance

• Engineer secure-by-design Linux platform solutions.
• Develop Ansible-based security hardening and compliance automation.
• Implement automated vulnerability remediation and security configuration management processes.
• Ensure platform designs support compliance requirements including:
• FFIEC
• PCI-DSS
• SOX
• NIST
• CIS Benchmarks
• Enterprise Information Security Standards

Qualifications: Minimum Required Education and Experience

Bachelor's Degree and 8 years' experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 12 years' experience in Systems engineer including systems programmer, scripting, troubleshootingBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Quaifications

• 10+ years of enterprise Linux administration and engineering experience.
• 8+ years of experience supporting Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
• Expert-level knowledge of:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 7/8/9)
• Red Hat Satellite
• Linux performance tuning and troubleshooting
• Storage management and LVM
• Kernel and OS lifecycle management
• Linux networking and security
• Advanced shell scripting experience (Bash, KornShell, and Shell). Strong Python development skills for automation and tooling.
• Experience with:
• Git-based source control
• CI/CD pipelines
• Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies
• Enterprise storage platforms
• Disaster recovery architectures
• Capacity and performance engineering
• Enterprise monitoring and observability tools
• Experience supporting highly regulated organizations, preferably banking or financial services.

Additional Information

Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.