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Linux and Infrastructure Platform Engineer
Samaritan's Purse · Boone, NC, United States
Boone, NC, United StatesFull timeExp: 4+ yrsOnsite
Remuneration
Competitive benefits package
Location
Boone, NC, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Linux and Infrastructure Platform Engineer designs and supports enterprise application platforms across production, staging, development, and test environments, focusing on Linux, Kubernetes, and containerized workloads. The role collaborates across infrastructure and application teams to build highly available services across datacenters, and maintains platform resilience through monitoring, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and backup and disaster recovery. It also implements automation, Helm, GitOps, and CI/CD practices.
Benefits
On-site medical clinic for staff and dependentsMedical, prescription, dental, and vision insuranceFlexible Spending AccountShort- and long-term disability insurancePaid family medical leaveTerm life insurance401(k) retirement savings plan10 paid holidays12 vacation or personal days10 sick days
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree plus four years of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- ITIL certification preferred
- Comprehensive knowledge of Windows and Linux server management and Kubernetes and container ecosystems
- Knowledge of highly available infrastructure, including networking, load balancing, ingress, storage, capacity planning, backup, and disaster recovery across multiple datacenters
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Helm, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines
- Knowledge of access controls, authentication, secrets management, and change-control standards
- 12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies required; may be completed after hire
- Fluency in English required
Responsibilities
- Design and support enterprise application platforms across production, staging, development, and test environments.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and application teams to build datacenter delivery infrastructure for load balancing, ingress, networking, persistent storage, and disaster recovery.
- Maintain platform availability through Kubernetes resiliency, clustering, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, backup and recovery, and infrastructure maintenance.
- Monitor platform performance, availability, capacity, logs, resource utilization, node health, and workload status.
- Implement and maintain Kubernetes, Linux, configuration management, automation, Helm, and GitOps technologies.
- Provide technical support to developers, analysts, administrators, and third-party vendors.
Skills
HelmKubernetesLinuxWindows
Certifications
ITIL certification preferred
Degrees
Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience12 credit hours of college-level Biblical Studies required
Languages
English
Industry
Humanitarian work
Relocation
No