Hybrid Senior Linux Engineer

at Warner Bros. Discovery

• Job title: Senior Linux Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Ansible, Cloud, DNS, Grafana, Groovy, Jenkins, Linux, Packer, Shell Scripting, VMware
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Hyderabad, India

About the role

• Senior Linux Engineer maintaining mission-critical Linux infrastructure for Warner Bros. Discovery. Leading technical initiatives and collaborating across teams for operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Provide L3 support for RHEL 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and other Linux distributions across Dev/QA/Test/Prod environments
• Lead complex troubleshooting for critical production issues in on premises
• Perform advanced system performance tuning, capacity planning, and optimization
• Lead infrastructure migration projects including OS upgrades and platform migrations
• Implement and maintain OS hardening standards and security baseline configurations
• Integrate systems with various infrastructure tools for privileged access management
• Configure and maintain monitoring using SolarWinds, Grafana, and Zabbix etc.
• Manage PagerDuty on-call escalations and lead critical incident response
• Conduct root cause analysis and implement permanent solutions
• Design and maintain automation workflows using VMware Aria Automation (vRA)
• Develop and optimize Ansible playbooks and Ansible Automation Platform configurations
• Build and maintain Jenkins pipelines for infrastructure provisioning and deployments
• Create automated RHEL images using Packer with security hardening built-in
• Write advanced automation scripts using Bash and Groovy
• Implement GitOps workflows using Git for version-controlled infrastructure
• Automate DNS/IPAM workflows with Infoblox integration
• Automate privileged access workflows with CyberArk integration
• Optimize existing automation for performance, reliability, and maintainability
• Develop end-to-end automation for server provisioning and lifecycle management
• Follow ITIL change management processes and participate in CAB reviews
• Coordinate with cross-region teams across multiple time zones
• Create comprehensive technical documentation, runbooks, and automation standards
• Mentor L1/L2 engineers and serve as technical escalation point
• Lead migration planning, execution, and validation activities
• Deep troubleshooting and root cause analysis abilities

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or Linux systems administration experience.
• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in IT infrastructure with a focus on Linux and Automation tasks.
• At least 8+ years of hands-on experience with automation technologies like preferably Ansible and shell scripting.
• Advanced expertise in Ansible and Ansible Automation Platform.
• Strong hands-on experience with VMware Aria Automation (vRA) workflow development.
• Proficiency building Jenkins CI/CD pipelines and bash, powershell scripting and Git.
• Familiarity with virtualization technologies (i.e. VMware ESXi, Hyper-V)
• Familiarity with IntelliSnap, cloud integration, and advanced storage features.
• Advanced knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Knowledge and/or ability to comply with change management processes.
• The candidate must have excellent communications skills to be successful.
• Ability to organize information and produce technical documentation for operational effectiveness.
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations.
• Position requires after hours support for outages/impairments.
• Candidates will participate in a 24x7 on call support rotation.

Benefits

• career defining opportunities
• thoughtfully curated benefits
• tools to explore and grow