Linux Systems Engineer

RHEL Engineer

We are seeking a RHEL Engineer to provide technical expertise and advisory services supporting a leading financial services customer with the deployment, hardening, and operations of RHEL10 from previous RHEL versions. In this role, you will lead the strategy, automation, and execution of RHEL in-place upgrades, ensuring a standardized, repeatable, and scalable transition for an enterprise environment. You will act as the technical lead, bridging the gap between current state architecture and a modern, automated upgrade workflow.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct solutions design sessions to identify current upgrade pain points.
• Assist the Customer with designing and documenting future state upgrade processes.
• Orchestrate and communicate the in-place upgrade plan to relevant stakeholders.
• Develop and refine automation playbooks for snapshot, upgrade, rollback, and upgrade commit tasks.
• Add RHEL IPU (In-place Upgrade) Job Templates to AAP.
• Execute the upgrade workflow and troubleshoot alongside Red Hat Engineering teams.
• Refine automation processes to support diverse system types across the infrastructure.
• Develop procedures to validate application hosts before and after the in-place upgrade process.
• Create and maintain a standard RHEL upgrade workflow (pre-analysis, remediation, snapshot, validation, rollback, and commit).
• Build a knowledge-base for the in-place upgrade process for internal release.
• Facilitate workshops to fill technical knowledge gaps and capture upgrade dependencies.
• Identify beta users and test/validate the upgrade process at scale.
• Provide weekly status reports to the Red Hat Project Manager to ensure transparency on project status, risks, and decision-making.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Proven experience with RHEL deployment, hardening, and operations.
• Strong proficiency in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) and building automation workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Leapp for RHEL in-place upgrades.
• Ability to facilitate technical workshops and lead architectural decision-making.
• Experience in creating technical documentation and knowledge-base assets.
• Strong troubleshooting capabilities, including coordination with vendor engineering teams.
• Experience in managing technical scope and communicating progress to executive stakeholders.