Infrastructure Lead - Linux, AWS, Terraform

Position: Infrastructure Lead - Linux, AWS, Terraform

Location: Hybrid - Hartford, CT

Duration: W2 Long term contract

What are the top 3 skills required for this role?

1.Compute - Linux

2.AWS

3. Terraform

Job Description/ Responsibilities

• Serve as the highest level technical escalation point (L3 SME) for Linux/Unix infrastructure.

• Manage and support large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Oracle Linux, CentOS, SUSE, and Unix environments.

• Perform advanced troubleshooting of OS, kernel, filesystem, storage, networking, and performance issues.

• Lead OS patching, upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and lifecycle management.

• Ensure system availability, stability, scalability, and operational compliance.

• Lead resolution of critical incidents and major outages.

• Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and implement preventive measures.

• Review and approve changes related to compute infrastructure.

• Drive continuous service improvement initiatives.

• Conduct capacity planning and resource optimization.

• Analyze system utilization, bottlenecks, and trends.

• Implement proactive monitoring and self-healing mechanisms.

• Drive toil reduction through automation and operational innovation.

• Develop and maintain shell scripting and automation solutions.

• Automate provisioning, patching, compliance checks, and operational tasks.

• Contribute to Infrastructure as Code practices using Terraform.

• Support CI/CD integration for infrastructure deployment activities.