Senior Linux SysOps Engineer

Overview

Expleo is a global engineering, technology, and consulting service provider that partners with leading organizations to guide them through their business transformation, helping them achieve operational excellence and future-proof their businesses.

Expleo benefits from more than 50 years of experience developing complex products in automotive and aerospace, optimizing manufacturing processes, and ensuring the quality of information systems. Leveraging its deep sector knowledge and wide-ranging expertise in fields including AI engineering, digitalization, automation, cybersecurity and data science, the group’s mission is to fast-track innovation through each step of the value chain.

With a worldwide presence in 30 countries, our global footprint includes excellence centers around the world, including Romania since 1994.

Responsibilities

The Senior Linux SysOps Engineer operates and improves business-critical Linux platforms, protecting availability, performance, security and service levels across the production lifecycle. The role combines hands-on administration, proactive monitoring, advanced troubleshooting, controlled change delivery and practical automation in a high-availability environment.

Key responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise Linux environments, primarily RHEL and compatible distributions, while maintaining production availability, performance and agreed service levels.
• Monitor platform health and capacity, resolve complex L2/L3 incidents and perform root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Deliver operating-system updates, security patches, vulnerability remediation and Linux hardening through controlled change processes.
• Automate and standardize routine operations using scripts and configuration-management tools.
• Maintain resilient services through high availability, failover, backup, recovery and disaster-recovery testing.
• Tune systems and deliver production fixes from technical analysis through testing, approval and deployment.
• Maintain clear runbooks and change records while collaborating with support, engineering, cloud and security teams.
• Participate in the on-call rota and support priority incidents outside standard working hours when required.

Qualifications

• Strong production experience administering RHEL or compatible Linux systems, including networking, storage, system resources and performance troubleshooting.
• Proven ownership of business-critical services, including monitoring, incident resolution, service improvement and SLA commitments.
• Hands-on experience with patching, vulnerability remediation, security hardening and controlled change delivery.
• Working knowledge of Shell, Python, Ansible, Puppet or equivalent automation and configuration-management tools
• Experience supporting resilient services through clustering, failover, backup validation and recovery testing.
• Clear technical documentation and English communication skills, with a proactive approach to cross-team problem ownership and on-call support.

Desired skills

• Hands-on operation of public or private cloud platforms and familiarity with cloud service lifecycle principles.
• Experience in payments, financial services or another regulated, high-availability, transaction-heavy environment.
• ITIL Foundation certification or comparable evidence of practical IT service management experience.
• Experience guiding colleagues, coordinating complex technical work or acting as a technical lead during major incidents and operational improvements.

What do I need before I apply

• Hybrid, a few days per month at the office.
• CIM only

Benefits

• Benefit Platform
• Holiday Voucher
• Private medical insurance
• Performance bonus
• Easter and Christmas bonus
• Employee referral bonus
• Bookster subscription
• Work from home options depending on project