Linux Principal Engineer

  • Rapport IT
  • Plano, Texas
  • Full Time

Reporting to the Senior Manager, the person in this role will join the Cloud Engineering & Software Development Support team to build and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient cloud infrastructure and systems.
What You ll Be Doing

  • Own and maintain a multi-horizon Linux/Unix platform roadmap aligned to business, security, operational resilience, and AI priorities
  • Anticipate future demand, lifecycle events, platform risks, and emerging technology needs to ensure proactive planning rather than reactive support
  • Drive platform standardization through infrastructure-as-code, hardened baselines, standard images, and self-service operational capabilities
  • Partner across infrastructure, application, security, and risk teams to improve platform stability, recovery readiness, observability, and compliance
  • Reduce operational toil and fragmented patterns by advancing automation-first platform operations and scalable service delivery models
  • Enable secure adoption of AI/ML and data workloads by evolving Linux platform capabilities to support performance, governance, and intelligent operations
  • Translate platform strategy into measurable outcomes, milestones, and investment priorities, and communicate progress clearly to stakeholders
  • Identify and consolidate overlapping OS platform responsibilities (e.g., hardening, lifecycle management, automation, observability) to increase leverage and reduce duplicated effort

What You Bring

  • Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or at least 7 to 10 years of professional experience
  • Experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, Platform Lead, or similar role supporting enterprise infrastructure or platform services
  • Strong experience administering or leading enterprise Linux/Unix platforms supporting critical production workloads
  • Experience delivering automation, infrastructure-as-code, standardization, or self-service platform initiatives in large-scale environments
  • Experience presenting technical strategy, roadmap direction, and delivery priorities to both technical and executive stakeholders

Added bonus if you have

  • Experience supporting AI/ML, data platforms, or other advanced compute workloads in enterprise environments
  • Experience with observability, AIOps, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, or automated remediation practices
  • Experience in security-focused, regulated, or audit-driven environments
  • Experience developing and executing multi-year technology roadmaps for shared infrastructure platforms
Job ID: 522492357
Originally Posted on: 5/26/2026

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