Linux Principal Engineer

Dice is the leading career destination for tech experts at every stage of their careers. Our client, Rapport IT, is seeking the following. Apply via Dice today!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 DoingOwn and maintain a multi-horizon Linux/Unix platform roadmap aligned to business, security, operational resilience, and AI prioritiesAnticipate future demand, lifecycle events, platform risks, and emerging technology needs to ensure proactive planning rather than reactive supportDrive platform standardization through infrastructure-as-code, hardened baselines, standard images, and self-service operational capabilitiesPartner across infrastructure, application, security, and risk teams to improve platform stability, recovery readiness, observability, and complianceReduce operational toil and fragmented patterns by advancing automation-first platform operations and scalable service delivery modelsEnable secure adoption of AI/ML and data workloads by evolving Linux platform capabilities to support performance, governance, and intelligent operationsTranslate platform strategy into measurable outcomes, milestones, and investment priorities, and communicate progress clearly to stakeholdersIdentify and consolidate overlapping OS platform responsibilities (e.g., hardening, lifecycle management, automation, observability) to increase leverage and reduce duplicated effortWhat You BringBachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or at least 7 to 10 years of professional experienceExperience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, Platform Lead, or similar role supporting enterprise infrastructure or platform servicesStrong experience administering or leading enterprise Linux/Unix platforms supporting critical production workloadsExperience delivering automation, infrastructure-as-code, standardization, or self-service platform initiatives in large-scale environmentsExperience presenting technical strategy, roadmap direction, and delivery priorities to both technical and executive stakeholdersAdded bonus if you have Experience supporting AI/ML, data platforms, or other advanced compute workloads in enterprise environmentsExperience with observability, AIOps, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, or automated remediation practicesExperience in security-focused, regulated, or audit-driven environmentsExperience developing and executing multi-year technology roadmaps for shared infrastructure platforms