Senior Linux Engineer / Lead Engineer

Location: Alexandria

Market Unit: Group IT

Career Level: Professionals

WHAT YOU'LL SHAPE

• Design and evolve enterprise Linux platforms across complex customer environments, primarily based on RHEL and SLES.
• Build automation that makes a difference from provisioning and configuration to patching, deployment and recurring operational tasks using technologies such as Ansible and Foreman/Katello.
• Turn individual solutions into scalable services by driving standardization, reusable automation and consistent operational concepts.
• Solve the challenges that require deep expertise acting as a technical escalation point for complex incidents, performance issues and root-cause analysis.
• Lead the resolution of critical incidents by coordinating involved teams, driving root-cause analysis and ensuring sustainable corrective measures
• Strengthen security and resilience by developing hardening standards, vulnerability remediation approaches, monitoring, high-availability and recovery concepts.
• Ensure dependable service delivery by supporting stable and secure operations in line with agreed SLAs, customer requirements and applicable standards.
• Shape modernization projects across on-premises, virtualized, cloud and hybrid environments.
• Technically lead complex cross-team projects from initial planning and architecture through implementation, documentation and operational handover.
• Work directly with customers and technical stakeholders translating requirements into sustainable solutions and guiding technical workshops and architecture discussions.
• Drive engineering quality challenge existing approaches, review technical solutions and contribute your ideas to continuously improve the way we work.
• Share your knowledge support other engineers and help build a strong technical community around Linux and automation.

WHAT YOU BRING

Professional background

You typically bring 8+ years of relevant professional experience in IT infrastructure or platform engineering. You have completed vocational IT training, a relevant degree or possess equivalent practical experience.

Strong Linux expertise

You have several years of hands-on experience with enterprise Linux environments, ideally RHEL and/or SLES, and a strong understanding of system operations, networking and security.

An automation mindset

Automation is more than a tool for you. It is part of how you approach engineering. You have experience with technologies such as Ansible, Bash/Shell or Python and enjoy eliminating repetitive manual work.

A broader infrastructure perspective

You understand that Linux does not exist in isolation. Experience with VMware, high-availability and cluster technologies, monitoring solutions and hybrid infrastructure helps you see the bigger picture.

Cloud and hybrid expertise

You have solid knowledge of cloud platforms and their implementation. Experience with Azure, AWS and hybrid architectures enables you to design solutions across traditional and cloud environments.

Security awareness

You understand concepts such as system hardening, patch and vulnerability management, access controls and operational security and know how to translate them into practical solutions.

Technical ownership

You are comfortable taking responsibility for a solution from design and implementation through documentation and handover into operations.

Technical project leadership

You can plan, coordinate and technically lead complex projects involving multiple teams and departments, while keeping scope, dependencies, quality and operational readiness in view.

A customer and team mindset

You can explain complex technical topics clearly, challenge ideas constructively and communicate confidently with engineers, service managers and customers. You enjoy sharing knowledge and helping others succeed rather than keeping expertise to yourself.

English communication

You are comfortable working in English with documentation, tickets and international colleagues and stakeholders. B1/B2 or above is a good orientation.

TECHNOLOGIES YOU MAY WORK WITH

Depending on the customer environment and project, your technology landscape may include:

RHEL | SLES | Ansible | Foreman/Katello | Bash | Python | VMware | Azure | AWS | HA/Clustering | Icinga | Prometheus | APIs | Infrastructure as Code

You don't need to be an expert in every technology on this list. What matters most is a strong Linux foundation, an engineering mindset and the motivation to continuously learn and improve.

Experience with technologies such as Terraform, Windows Server or Citrix can be an additional advantage, but is not required.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT

• Real technical ownership: You will have the freedom to contribute ideas, challenge existing approaches and influence how our Linux services evolve.
• Clear technical leadership: Take responsibility for technical direction and quality without disciplinary management duties.
• Complex and meaningful environments: Work with well-known enterprises, market leaders and hidden champions on business-critical infrastructure.
• Automation instead of repetition: We want to reduce manual work and build reusable, maintainable solutions wherever possible.
• Room to shape technology: Help define standards, automation patterns, security concepts and operational best practices.
• A strong learning environment: Benefit from structured knowledge sharing, mentoring, training and certification support.
• Growth that fits your strengths: Develop further as a deep technical expert, architect, technical lead or mentor.
• Collaboration instead of silos: Work with colleagues across engineering, service management and other technology domains.
• Flexibility: Benefit from flexible working hours and remote/home-office options.

LET'S LOOK AT YOUR IMPACT, NOT JUST YOUR TITLE.

For us, seniority is not simply about the number of years you have worked with Linux.

You may be a strong fit for the Senior or Lead level if you already take ownership beyond your own technical tasks, for example by:

• designing solutions and guiding them from concept into stable operations,
• driving automation and security at scale,
• defining standards and challenging technical decisions,
• solving complex problems others escalate to you,
• leading technical workshops and architecture discussions,
• mentoring colleagues and actively sharing knowledge,
• or turning good individual solutions into reusable, scalable services.

What matters is not that you already do all of these things. What matters is the level of responsibility you are ready to take.