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Senior Linux Automation Engineer

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Tue, Sep 22, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Focused on engineering and maintaining the Valassis DMT platform environment, the full-time Senior Linux Automation Engineer will engage in hands-on systems engineering, configuration management, and high-availability cloud infrastructure execution in a remote setting.

Key responsibilities
  • Design, develop, and maintain configuration modules using Puppet and Ansible for system provisioning and application deployment
  • Administer and optimize enterprise Linux environments, primarily Ubuntu, ensuring performance and security
  • Operate and optimize virtualization layers, including OpenStack and hypervisors, while managing automated bare-metal server provisioning
Required qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
  • 5-7+ years of hands-on experience in Linux infrastructure engineering and cloud automation
  • Expert-level experience in engineering and maintaining enterprise Ubuntu/Debian server environments
  • Proven mastery in authoring custom Puppet modules and Ansible playbooks for automation
  • Strong background in bare-metal provisioning and virtualization concepts (KVM, LXD, ESXi)

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