Linux and Open Source Platform Specialist

Role overview

Key contributions

• Administer Linux platforms, including configuration, patching, upgrades, performance, availability, security, and lifecycle management.
• Design and implement Linux solutions across physical, virtualized, on-premises, and cloud environments.
• Evaluate and implement open-source technologies with attention to security, supportability, integration, licensing, and total cost of ownership.
• Troubleshoot complex incidents and performance issues, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement corrective actions.
• Lead or contribute senior expertise to modernization, migration, cloud adoption, upgrades, consolidation, and lifecycle projects.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, patching, monitoring, compliance, and operations using tools such as Ansible, Python, Bash, Git, APIs, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, standards, roadmaps, and continuous improvement across collaborating teams.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related discipline or equivalent education and professional experience.
• 5+ years of relevant enterprise Linux, systems, or infrastructure experience with senior-level responsibility.
• Hands-on enterprise Linux administration, including RHEL, Ubuntu, or equivalent distributions across physical, virtualized, and cloud platforms.
• Experience designing, implementing, upgrading, migrating, securing, and troubleshooting complex Linux environments.
• Knowledge of Linux architecture and administration, security, patching, vulnerability remediation, access controls, SSH, certificates, auditing, and recovery.
• Experience with automation and configuration management; Ansible, Python, Bash, Git, APIs, and/or Infrastructure as Code are preferred approaches.
• Cloud platform experience required; Azure and/or AWS experience is preferred.
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills; fluency in written and spoken English and French.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with enterprise Linux distributions such as RHEL, Ubuntu, or SUSE at scale and across lifecycle management.
• Experience with Apache, NGINX, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, GitLab, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent platforms.
• Relevant RHCE, Linux Foundation, Ubuntu, or equivalent Linux/cloud certifications.
• Experience developing standards, reference architectures, automation practices, technology selection criteria, and multi-year platform roadmaps.

Benefits

• Benefits include dental, medical, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, an Employee Assistance Program, and a Tele Health Program.

Workplace policy

• Bombardier promotes flexible and hybrid work policies when applicable; no specific arrangement for this role is stated.