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Principal Linux Engineer

ConsultNet · Posted Nov 5, 2026

Rockville, Maryland, United States
Hybrid
Senior
Salary / Pay Rate: DOE
10+ years

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Senior technical authority for the enterprise Linux platform, leading Linux support, architecture, and engineering standards across data center and embedded environments.

Responsibilities

Act as technical lead and final escalation point for Linux support, owning triage, root cause analysis, and permanent corrective action on complex incidents.
Manage the Linux support queue and on-call rotation in a 24x7x365 environment.
Own the architecture, build standards, and lifecycle of the Linux estate (RHEL and derivatives), including capacity planning and hardware and OS refresh.
Define and enforce configuration management and infrastructure as code practices using Ansible, Terraform, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
Own engineering and support for the Debian Linux OS that ships with the company's products, including image definition, kernel and device tree configuration, package selection, hardening, and release qualification.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent work experience.
Nice to have: Red Hat certification (RHCSA/RHCE)
Nice to have: Cloud, security, or ITIL certifications
Nice to have: VMware vSphere
Nice to have: Container platform experience

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