Senior RHEL Platform Engineer—Automation & Security

First Citizens; Phoenix (AZ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

First Citizens is seeking a Senior Red Hat Linux Platform Engineer to design and automate a scalable, secure Linux platform for mission-critical banking apps. You will lead modernization efforts, manage OS lifecycles, and implement enterprise automation using Ansible and IaC.

The role emphasizes security engineering, compliance, and integration with CI/CD pipelines to deliver reliable, resilient infrastructure across production and development environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience in Linux platform engineering and systems administration/is engineering.
• Experience in regulated environments, preferably banking or financial services.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer, and implement enterprise Red Hat Linux platform solutions.
• Develop platform standards, engineering patterns, and best practices.
• Lead platform modernization, OS lifecycle management, and technology refresh initiatives.
• Develop IaC standards and automation governance processes.
• Build automated server provisioning, configuration, patching, and deployment solutions.
• Integrate Ansible with CI/CD pipelines and enterprise platforms.
• Implement automated configuration drift detection and remediation.

Skills

RHEL

Ansible

Infrastructure as Code

Security engineering

CI/CD pipelines

Shell scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree

12+ years experience (HS or GED)

Tools

Red Hat Satellite

IdM

Podman

Systemd

LVM

Job description

First Citizens is seeking a Senior Red Hat Linux Platform Engineer to design and automate a scalable, secure Linux platform for mission-critical banking apps. You will lead modernization efforts, manage OS lifecycles, and implement enterprise automation using Ansible and IaC.

The role emphasizes security engineering, compliance, and integration with CI/CD pipelines to deliver reliable, resilient infrastructure across production and development environments.