Principal Engineer (Linux, Unix Platform)

Role- Sr Principal Engineer - Linux/Unix platform
Onsite Plano, TX

Direct Hire - Full Time

Overview

Client is looking for team members who are passionate about technology and interested in joining a collaborative and highly motivated team as a Principal Engineer.

The primary responsibility of this role is to own the vision, roadmap, and evolution of Client’s Linux/Unix platform, which supports Tier-0 and Tier-1 business systems, automation frameworks, data services, and AI workloads. This role ensures the platform strategy is secure, scalable, automation-first, and aligned to business, security, and AI priorities.

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

Preferred

•             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

Salary : $110,000 - $150,000