Linux Infrastructure Engineer

Job Description

Linux Infrastructure Engineer Consultant Duration: 12 months with extension possible to 18 months
Pennington, NJ (3 days per week onsite)
We are seeking a skilled Linux Infrastructure Engineer to maintain, monitor, and support our financial services client’s core infrastructure platforms. In this role, you will be heavily focused on hands-on troubleshooting, operational maintenance, and incident resolution across cloud, virtual, and bare-metal environments. This role will work closely with our client’s operations teams to execute on platform automation (Configuration Management and IaC), migrations to cloud (AWS and Azure), harden production systems, and evolve support tooling.

Operations & Patch Management: Execute routine server maintenance, including Linux OS patching, kernel upgrades, and standard build deployments.
Monitoring & Observability: Utilize logging and monitoring tools to proactively track system health, analyze log data, and respond to automated performance alerts.
Support daily environment provisioning, apply required security updates, and assist with data center migrations and End-of-Life (EOL) hardware/software replacements.
Compliance & Technical Support: Ticket & Stakeholder Management: Manage incoming operational tickets, communicate system status updates to various Lines of Business (LoBs), and document resolution procedures.

Linux Administration: Hands-on experience supporting and administering enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL, Rocky, or CentOS) in a production environment.
Monitoring Tools: Experience using observability and logging platforms (such as Splunk, Nagios, Prometheus, or Grafana) to triage infrastructure issues.
Automation: Familiarity with executing configuration management scripts (Ansible, Puppet, or Chef) and using version control systems (Git) to maintain systems.
Understanding of fundamental networking concepts, virtualized environments (VMware), cloud platforms, and basic bare-metal hardware support.
For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at email and/or phone at: info@matlensilver.