Senior Linux Engineer

Senior Linux EngineerOur client, a leading independent investment management firm, is seeking an experienced Senior Linux Engineer for a 6 month contract in Atlanta, GA. This role is hybrid, onsite 4 days per week.The Infrastructure Platform Engineering team designs, builds and supports the Linux and cloud platforms that power critical business services across the organization. We work closely with application, security and architecture teams to deliver secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure. Operating within Agile and DevSecOps ways of working, the team focuses on automation, standardization and a cloud-first strategy. Our role is to balance innovation with the high reliability and compliance standards required in a regulated financial services environment.Your Role As a Senior Linux Engineer, you will be a hands-on technical contributor responsible for building, operating and continually improving Linux-based infrastructure platforms, during an active migration of our Red Hat Satellite and configuration management estate. You will contribute to, challenge and influence design decisions, and you will have the experience and confidence to propose, justify, own and implement technical decisions within the Linux platform. You will resolve complex, non-routine issues independently, communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and provide informal technical guidance to peers.You Will Be Responsible ForDesigning, implementing and supporting Red Hat Satellite and Linux platforms across on-premises and AWS environments, with minimal supervision.Contributing to the design and delivery of the ongoing platform migration, including challenging and refining proposed approaches.Building, maintaining and enhancing configuration management and Infrastructure as Code solutions using Puppet (preferred), Ansible, Terraform and Git.Owning the end-to-end Linux server build process in AWS, including automation and delivery through CI/CD pipelines.Acting as the Unix/Linux subject matter expert within Agile delivery squads, helping shape technical approaches and resolving non-routine platform challenges.Developing and maintaining automation, primarily in Python and Bash, to reduce manual effort and operational risk.Collaborating with application, cloud and security teams to design and implement secure, reliable and scalable Linux-based solutions.Ensuring systems are configured in line with security, regulatory, audit and operational resilience requirements.Troubleshooting complex platform and infrastructure issues that affect business-critical services.Leading small technical initiatives or workstreams with manageable risk, contributing to platform standards and best practices.Required Experience6-10 years of enterprise experience administering and engineering Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.Red Hat Satellite design and implementation experience (for example content views, lifecycle environments, capsules, upgrades or migrations), beyond day-to-day patching.Hands-on, design-level experience with enterprise configuration management and Infrastructure as Code: Puppet preferred; Ansible acceptable if operated at scale with genuine design and implementation ownership. Git required; Terraform preferred.Infrastructure automation and platform engineering experience in AWS, including Linux server build automation and CI/CD pipelines.Strong Python and Bash scripting.Experience in a regulated environment (financial services preferred).Desirable ExperiencePacker.CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions or GitLab.Privileged Access Management: Delinea Cloud Suite is a bonus; CyberArk or comparable platforms are equally relevant.Linux workloads on VMware, Nutanix or equivalent virtualized environments.Enterprise logging, monitoring and observability platforms such as Splunk.Familiarity with container technologies and cloud-based SaaS, PaaS and IaaS platforms.Pay Rate- $74.06- $76.00/hour