Senior IT Architect – Linux, Open-Source

🕒 August 14

🌐 India, Portugal, +2 more countries – Remote

🇮🇳 India – Remote 🇵🇹 Portugal – Remote 🇵🇱 Poland – Remote 🇪🇸 Spain – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2019

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

HBK - Hottinger Brüel & Kjær is a prominent company formed in 2019 through the merger of HBM and Brüel & Kjær, two organizations with over 80 years of experience in precision test and measurement technology. HBK delivers innovative solutions across multiple domains including mechanical, sound and vibration, and electrical testing. The company provides a wide range of products and services such as data acquisition systems, electroacoustic setups, vibration testing equipment, and custom sensor assemblies. HBK caters to diverse industries such as aerospace, automotive, and energy, focusing on quality, reliability, and sustainability in all offerings. The company's mission is to empower innovators by providing exceptional sensing and insights, thus contributing to a cleaner, healthier, and more productive world.

📋 Description

• Design and maintain target-state architecture for Linux server and desktop infrastructure across on-premises, virtualized, and cloud environments • Own the architecture and roadmap for the broader open-source infrastructure stack • Define standards for OS builds, patching, hardening, and lifecycle management • Architect and oversee infrastructure automation for consistent, repeatable deployments • Lead evaluation and integration of virtualization and containerization platforms • Design high availability, disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity solutions • Own capacity planning and performance engineering • Define and enforce security architecture with Cyber Security teams • Own open-source license compliance and governance • Act as technical escalation point for complex incidents and problem management • Produce architecture documentation, design decisions, and roadmaps; present them to stakeholders • Evaluate technologies and vendors and provide build-vs-buy and open-source-vs-commercial recommendations • Mentor system administrators and engineers • Collaborate with the outsourcing provider, application owners, architects, network/security teams, and cloud teams

🎯 Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent practical experience • 7+ years of experience administering and/or architecting Linux environments, including several years in an architecture or technical lead role • Deep expertise in at least one major enterprise Linux distribution, such as RHEL or SUSE, and working knowledge of others • Broad hands-on familiarity with open-source infrastructure beyond the OS, including web/app servers, MySQL, PostgreSQL, message queues, and identity providers • Strong hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and Terraform • Understanding of open-source OS in Azure cloud and containerization/orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes • Experience designing high availability, disaster recovery, and backup/restore strategies • Strong networking fundamentals including TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls • Practical knowledge of Linux security hardening, patch management, and compliance frameworks such as CIS and ISO 27001 • Understanding of open-source licensing models including GPL, Apache, and MIT • Scripting proficiency in Bash and Python • Experience with monitoring and observability stacks such as Prometheus/Grafana, Nagios, Zabbix, and ELK/Splunk • Experience with Azure and hybrid-cloud Linux workloads • Active contribution to or involvement with open-source projects or communities • Exposure to enterprise storage architectures such as SAN/NAS • Familiarity with ITIL processes and enterprise architecture frameworks such as TOGAF • Strong architectural and analytical thinking • Excellent communication skills and ability to explain complex technical topics to non-technical stakeholders • Ability to work independently in a senior, low-supervision role • Collaborative approach across infrastructure, security, and application teams • Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions • Fluent English at business level