Linux Systems Engineer

Position summary:

Linux Systems Engineer responsible for engineering, building, supporting, securing, and maintaining large-scale Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) server infrastructure in a highly available, 24x7 enterprise production environment. This role requires extensive hands-on RHEL experience, strong troubleshooting skills, and the ability to support complex distributed infrastructure across on-premises virtualization and AWS cloud environments.

About The Clearing House: The Clearing House Payments Company L.L.C. is a bank-owned industry utility that shapes the payments landscape and provides infrastructure for safe, reliable, and efficient payments. We see an economy where everyone is connected and a future where modern payments make life easier. The Clearing House operates four payment systems: a high-value wire-transfer system (the CHIPS® network), the country’s first and largest instant payments system (the RTP® network), an automated clearinghouse network (the EPN® network), and a check image exchange network (the Image Exchange Network). TCH also operates a bank account number tokenization service, runs a payments association known as the TCH Payments Authority, and maintains the rules for private-sector check image exchange through its ECCHO® business line.

Qualifications required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Extensive hands-on experience administering Red Hat Enterprise Linux in a large enterprise environment, including installation, configuration, upgrades, lifecycle management, troubleshooting, performance analysis, and production support.
• Strong understanding of cloud fundamentals, infrastructure provisioning, and enterprise cloud design patterns.
• Extensive experience with RHEL 8.x and 9.x on x86_64 platforms, including RHEL workloads hosted on VMware and AWS.
• Strong working knowledge of enterprise infrastructure dependencies, including SAN storage (Dell/EMC), TCP/IP networking, DNS, LDAP, Active Directory integration, and firewalls.
• Working knowledge of enterprise backup and recovery technologies, including Dell PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM).
• Experience provisioning, configuring, and supporting Linux virtual machines in VMware environments.
• Working knowledge of Linux authentication and identity integration with LDAP and Active Directory, as well as enterprise DNS services.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to create clear technical documentation and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and perform planned maintenance or incident response during nights, weekends, and other off-hours as required.