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.

What's in it for you

You Will Become Part Of a People-oriented Company Where Your Well-being Really Matters. Flexible Working Hours, Work From Home Possibilities, 20 Days Holiday And 12 WTR Days Within a 40-hour Week. At Our Headquarters You Will Also Discover Our TVH Park, a Green Area Where You Can Move Around And Have The Possibility To Relax, Meet Or Have Lunch. Furthermore, We Also Offer

• An attractive salary package with extra-legal benefits such as a company car, group and hospitalization insurance, luncheon vouchers, corporate restaurant, ...
• An exciting position in an international company with a family atmosphere where people are at the center.
• You are part of a dynamic entrepreneurial team that is fast-growing and at the center of the transformation.
• You arrive in an innovative, progressive and technological environment.
• Numerous opportunities for personal development, among other things through permanent guidance and professional (internal/external) training courses.
• Fun afterworks and other optional events (e.g. TVH Kaffee).

People are at our heart

TVH is a global business with a family atmosphere, where people are at the center. We value clarity, mutual respect, kindness and open communication. Our people are down-to-earth, easy to work and engage with. We welcome differences and celebrate new ideas.

About TVH

TVH is a parts specialist for quality parts and accessories for material handling, industrial vehicles, and construction and agricultural equipment. Working at TVH is opting for a company that excels as an international market leader and is well-known for its unstoppable craving for innovation.

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