What are the responsibilities and job description for the Linux Principal Engineer position at Rapport IT?
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
Salary : $160,000 - $180,000