Sr. Business Analyst - SRBIZA

IPolarity LLC; Hartford (CT); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cog Kit in Hartford, CT seeks a Tech Lead - Compute to own and advance Linux/Unix infrastructure. You will act as the L3 SME, manage large Linux estates, implement automation, and support Terraform-based IaC initiatives.

Ideal candidates bring deep OS expertise, incident leadership, and experience aligning compute platforms with CI/CD workflows. Hybrid work arrangement offered in Hartford, CT.

Qualifications

• L3 SME for Linux/Unix infrastructure and large-scale environments.
• Strong experience managing RHEL/Oracle Linux/CentOS/SUSE and Unix.
• Proven ability to fault-find, debug, and optimize kernels, storage, and networking.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and Terraform.
• Automation and scripting to reduce toil and improve reliability.

Responsibilities

• Serve as highest level technical escalation point for Linux/Unix infra.
• Lead OS patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure availability, stability, scalability, and compliance of compute systems.
• Drive incident resolution and major outage handling.
• Review changes to compute infrastructure and approve RFCs.
• Develop and maintain shell scripts and automation solutions.
• Automate provisioning, patching, and compliance checks.
• Contribute to IaC practices and CI/CD integration for infra deployments.

Skills

Linux

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Tech Lead - Compute

Hybrid - Hartford, CT

Cog Kit

BGV must be cleared to start

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

• Compute - Linux
• AWS
• Terraform

Job Description/ Responsibilities

• Serve as the highest level technical escalation point (L3 SME) for Linux/Unix infrastructure.
• Manage and support large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Oracle Linux, CentOS, SUSE, and Unix environments.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting of OS, kernel, filesystem, storage, networking, and performance issues.
• Lead OS patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure system availability, stability, scalability, and operational compliance.
• Lead resolution of critical incidents and major outages.
• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures.
• Review and approve changes related to compute infrastructure.
• Drive continuous service improvement initiatives.
• Conduct capacity planning and resource optimization.
• Analyze system utilization, bottlenecks, and trends.
• Implement proactive monitoring and self-healing mechanisms.
• Drive toil reduction through automation and operational innovation.
• Develop and maintain shell scripting and automation solutions.
• Automate provisioning, patching, compliance checks, and operational tasks.
• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform.
• Support CI/CD integration for infrastructure deployment activities.