Technology Lead Linux & Cloud-native infrastructure

As the Technology Lead Linux, you will be a key technical expert responsible for the reliability and stability of the core infrastructure ecosystem. At TVH, some of our mission critical systems run on Linux; therefore, your expertise will ensure the resilience and scalability of our business operations. In this role, you will bridge the gap between traditional enterprise Linux stability and modern cloud-native architectures. Whether they reside on prem or in the cloud. You are a key player to shape the technology roadmap, implementing a culture of "Infrastructure as Code" (IaC). Your primary weapon of choice will be the Ansible Automation Platform, transforming manual processes into highly orchestrated, self-healing workflows.

Your role and responsibilities 

• Roadmapping: Influence, shape, maintain, and execute the technology roadmap for our Linux infrastructure, ensuring it aligns with business requirements, growth and modern cloud/hybrid trends.

• Automation: Serve as the technical owner for the Ansible Automation Platform. Design and implement robust automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration management, patching, and compliance.

• Infrastructure Guardian: Ensure maximum uptime, performance tuning, and security hardening of the Linux environments hosting our core ecosystems. On prem or in the cloud.

• Technical Leadership & Mentorship: Guide, mentor, and elevate the skills of system engineers. Establish best practices, code review standards for Ansible playbooks, and documentation guidelines.

• Lifecycle & Vulnerability Management: Oversee OS lifecycle management, upgrades, and security patching, minimizing maintenance windows through automated updates.

• Vendor & Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate with the PM office, application teams, tech leads, architects and security officers to ensure maximum uptime and on time delivery.

How to succeed / Your profile 

• Linux Mastery: Deep, production-proven experience administering enterprise Linux distributions (e.g., Red Hat Enterprise Linux/RHEL,SUSE) in high-availability environments.

• Ansible Champion: Expertise with Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), Ansible Tower/AWX, creating complex roles, collections, and integrating Ansible with CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins). Experience with Terraform is a major plus.

• Infrastructure Familiarity: Solid understanding of hosting large-scale ecosystems on Linux, including storage clustering and high-availability (HA) concepts.

• Virtualization Ecosystem: Solid understanding of virtualisation concepts, including ESXi hypervisors, vCenter management, virtual networking, vMotion, and high-availability (HA/DRS) configurations as they relate to hosting enterprise Linux workloads 

• Containerization & Orchestration: Proven knowledge on Kubernetes (K8s) architecture and multi-cluster management using SUSE Rancher. Solid understanding of container runtimes (Docker, containerd)

• Security & Compliance: Strong knowledge of Linux security frameworks.

• Forward Thinking: Ability to look past daily tickets and conceptualize long-term improvements.

• Communication: Capability to translate complex technical infrastructure roadmaps into business value

• Problem Solver: A root-cause-analysis mindset rather than a "quick fix" mentality.

• Cultural awareness: You will be working with different cultures, understanding and adapting to different cultures is required to work most effectively.

• Team player: Due to your technical expertise and forward thinking you are able to inspire other team members in our journey.