Senior Red Hat Linux Systems Engineer - Automation & Hybrid

KellyMitchell Group; Oakland (CA); Hybrid; USD 68,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance

Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP)

401(k) offered

Job summary

KellyMitchell Group seeks an IT Systems Engineer III - Linux SME to support enterprise Linux infrastructure and automation initiatives in Oakland, CA. The contract role requires strong Red Hat experience and hands-on automation, scripting, and packaging skills.

The selected candidate will design, deploy, and maintain RHEL environments, build automation playbooks, and contribute to platform modernization and cloud integration efforts.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of enterprise Linux administration or engineering experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Hands-on administration of Red Hat Satellite.
• Advanced experience with Ansible Automation Platform.
• Strong scripting experience with Bash, Shell, and/or Python.
• Experience creating, maintaining, and deploying custom RPM packages.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, administer, and support enterprise Linux environments.
• Maintain RHEL Gold Images meeting security and compliance.
• Administer Red Hat Satellite provisioning, patch management, content views, and lifecycle.
• Develop Ansible playbooks, roles, inventories, and automation frameworks.
• Create and maintain Bash, Shell, or Python scripts for monitoring and automation.
• Develop and deploy custom RPM packages for enterprise apps.
• Lead modernization, data-center migration, platform upgrades and cloud integration.

Skills

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Ansible Automation Platform

Bash/Shell/Python scripting

RHEL Gold Images

Red Hat Satellite

RPM packaging

Tools

Red Hat Satellite

RPM packaging

Terraform

VMware

AWS

Azure

Job description

KellyMitchell Group seeks an IT Systems Engineer III - Linux SME to support enterprise Linux infrastructure and automation initiatives in Oakland, CA. The contract role requires strong Red Hat experience and hands-on automation, scripting, and packaging skills.

The selected candidate will design, deploy, and maintain RHEL environments, build automation playbooks, and contribute to platform modernization and cloud integration efforts.