Sr. Server Linux Engineer in Oceanport, New Jersey at RWJBarnabas Health

Job Title: Sr,

Server Engineer

Location: System Business Office

Department Name: IT&S Service Support

Req #: 0000262113

Status: Salaried

Shift: Day

Pay Range: $117,800.00 - $171,400.00 per year

Pay Transparency:

The above reflects the anticipated annual salary range for this position if hired to work in New Jersey.

The compensation offered to the candidate selected for the position will depend on several factors, including the candidate's educational background, skills and professional experience.

The Senior Server (Linux) Engineer is responsible for implementing, maintaining, securing, and optimizing Linux-based infrastructure supporting enterprise applications, networks, and services across RWJBarnabas Health.

This role helps ensure business-critical systems remain secure, highly available, resilient, and high performing. The Senior Server (Linux) Engineer works across infrastructure automation, system provisioning, monitoring, patching, vulnerability remediation, incident response, disaster recovery, and performance optimization within hybrid and cloud environments.

The ideal candidate brings deep Linux expertise, strong automation capabilities, and an analytical mindset with the ability to diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure issues in a fast-paced enterprise environment.

• Deploying, configuring, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise Linux servers and related infrastructure.
• Supporting Linux distributions including Red Hat, Ubuntu, and CentOS.
• Ensuring critical systems and services are properly monitored with relevant alerts configured to proactively identify and prevent potential outages.
• Troubleshooting complex system errors, performance degradation, accessibility issues, and infrastructure outages.
• Performing root-cause analysis and developing solutions to prevent recurring infrastructure issues.
• Writing and maintaining automation scripts and playbooks for provisioning, monitoring, configuration, deployments, and other repeatable operational tasks.
• Automating system provisioning and configuration across hybrid and cloud environments using automation and orchestration tools.
• Performing Linux performance tuning, kernel optimization, log analysis, and scalability improvements.
• Diagnosing infrastructure bottlenecks and supporting High Availability (HA) clustering.
• Managing operating system lifecycle activities, including patching, vulnerability remediation, security hardening, upgrades, and retirement of obsolete infrastructure.
• Leading infrastructure upgrades, migrations, hardware refreshes, firmware updates, patching initiatives, and vulnerability remediation efforts.
• Supporting enterprise storage technologies including SAN, NAS, object storage, storage virtualization, tiering, snapshots, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Managing disaster recovery testing and supporting business continuity and reliable backup strategies.
• Managing and supporting virtualized environments and public cloud infrastructure.
• Maintaining server security, Identity and Access Management (IAM), vulnerability management, and applicable compliance requirements.
• Creating and maintaining technical documentation for system configurations, processes, operational standards, support procedures, and infrastructure changes.
• Developing and maintaining lifecycle roadmaps, monitoring practices, and service-level metrics for mission-critical infrastructure platforms.
• Utilizing ServiceNow and following documented change-management processes to minimize downtime and operational risk.
• Monitoring problem and incident ticket queues and resolving assigned tickets according to established SLAs.
• Maintaining timely and accurate Workfront updates, including weekly timesheets and assigned project tasks.
• Communicating technical risks, operational metrics, outages, project status, and recovery capabilities to technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.
• Performing additional duties and responsibilities as requested by management.

• You have extensive hands-on experience supporting Linux infrastructure in a large-scale enterprise environment.
• You enjoy diagnosing complex system-level issues and identifying the root cause of outages or performance degradation.
• You are comfortable working with multiple Linux distributions, including Red Hat, Ubuntu, and CentOS.
• You enjoy automating repetitive infrastructure tasks and have experience developing scripts and automation playbooks.
• You understand how Linux environments interact with enterprise storage, virtualization, cloud, security, networking, and application platforms.
• You have experience with server hardening, vulnerability management, IAM, patching, and security compliance.
• You understand performance tuning, kernel optimization, scalability, and High Availability concepts.
• You are comfortable supporting mission-critical systems where uptime, resiliency, security, and performance are essential.
• You can remain analytical and solution-focused during escalations, outages, and other high-pressure situations.
• You are self-motivated and comfortable taking ownership of complex technical initiatives.
• You enjoy leading infrastructure projects such as migrations, upgrades, hardware refreshes, disaster recovery testing, and operational improvements.
• You can translate complex technical information into clear updates for technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leadership.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proficient hands-on experience supporting Linux distributions including Red Hat, Ubuntu, and CentOS.
• Proficiency in writing and maintaining automation scripts and playbooks.
• Hands-on experience managing virtualized environments and public cloud infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of Linux operating systems, patching, hardening, scripting, automation, troubleshooting, and access control.
• Proficient knowledge of performance tuning, kernel optimization, and scalability.
• Experience with server hardening, vulnerability management, Identity and Access Management (IAM), and compliance frameworks.
• Understanding of enterprise storage technologies, including SAN, NAS, object storage, storage virtualization, tiering, snapshots, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Experience diagnosing complex infrastructure issues, performing root-cause analysis, coordinating remediation, and implementing measures to prevent recurrence.
• Experience supporting infrastructure monitoring, alerting, incident response, and operational troubleshooting.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to plan and deliver infrastructure upgrades, migrations, hardware refreshes, disaster recovery testing, and operational improvement initiatives.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate effectively across technical teams, business stakeholders, and multiple levels of senior management.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and changing enterprise environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7+ years of IT and business industry experience.
• Previous experience supporting technology infrastructure within a healthcare environment.
• Experience supporting large-scale, highly available, mission-critical infrastructure.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and orchestration within hybrid and cloud environments.
• Experience with ServiceNow, including incident, problem, and change-management processes.
• Experience with Workfront or similar project and work-management platforms.
• Experience developing infrastructure lifecycle roadmaps, operational standards, support procedures, monitoring practices, and service-level metrics.

At RWJBarnabas Health, our market-competitive Total Rewards package provides comprehensive benefits and resources to support our employees' physical, emotional, social, and financial health.

• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Medical and Prescription Drug Insurance
• Dental and Vision Insurance
• Retirement Plans
• Short & Long Term Disability
• Life & Accidental Death Insurance
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Health Care/Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Wellness Programs
• Voluntary Benefits (e.g., Pet Insurance)
• Discounts Through Our Partners such as NJ Devils, NJ PAC, Verizon, and more!

RWJBarnabas Health is the premier health care destination providing patient-centered, high-quality academic medicine in a compassionate and equitable manner, while delivering a best-in-class work experience to every member of the team. We honor and appreciate the privilege of creating and sustaining healthier communities, one person and one community at a time. As the leading academic health system in New Jersey, we advance innovative strategies in high-quality patient care, education, and research to address both the clinical and social determinants of health.

RWJBarnabas Health aims to truly make a unique impact in local communities throughout New Jersey. From vastly improving the health of local residents to creating educational and career opportunities, this combination greatly benefits the state. We understand the growing and evolving needs of residents in New Jersey, whether that be enhancing the coordination for treating complex health conditions or improving community health through local programs and education.

Equal Opportunity Employer

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