Senior UnixLinux Platform Engineer

Role: Senior Unix/Linux Platform Engineer (Wire Platform Senior Engineer)

Location: Fully onsite position and can sit in the following locations:

• Raleigh
• Charlotte
• Memphis

Employemnt type: Contract to hire 6 months or less

Position Summary

Seeking a Senior Unix/Linux Platform Engineer to support and enhance mission-critical enterprise applications in a high-availability environment. This role is responsible for platform reliability automation CI/CD production support performance optimization security and incident management across the full software development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve reliability availability and performance of Unix/Linux-based production systems.
• Build and manage CI/CD pipelines release automation and deployment processes.
• Develop automation solutions using Bash Python and configuration management tools such as Ansible.
• Lead incident response efforts including troubleshooting root cause analysis remediation and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Implement monitoring logging dashboards and alerting using observability tools.
• Perform capacity planning system tuning and performance optimization.
• Manage security-related activities including patching vulnerability remediation and certificate management.
• Collaborate with development QA business and infrastructure teams to deliver application enhancements and production releases.
• Create and maintain technical documentation runbooks and operational procedures.
• Participate in on-call support and change management activities.
• Support disaster recovery testing vendor integrations and platform resilience initiatives.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Information Systems or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8 years of experience supporting Unix/Linux platforms in production environments.
• Strong experience with RHEL AIX or Solaris.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins or GitLab CI/CD.
• Proficiency in Bash Python and automation/configuration management tools (Ansible Puppet or Chef).
• Experience working with relational databases and SQL.
• Knowledge of messaging technologies such as IBM MQ Kafka or RabbitMQ.
• Solid understanding of networking DNS load balancing TLS/PKI and certificates.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Splunk ELK Prometheus Grafana AppDynamics or Dynatrace.
• Strong troubleshooting production support and incident management experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or operational excellence experience.
• Containerization and orchestration experience with Docker Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• Knowledge of security hardening standards and secrets management.
• Experience in regulated or highly controlled environments.
• Exposure to microservices API gateways and event-streaming technologies.

Key Skills