Manager Linux Platform

**Position Overview** ===================== The Manager, Linux Platform is responsible for leading and managing the enterprise Linux platforms in corporate and distribution center environments. This hands-on leadership role combines deep technical knowledge, exceptional problem-solving skills, and the ability to balance strategic planning with tactical execution. This leader will manage a team of System Engineers and Administrators, set operational and project priorities, and serve as the final escalation point for complex issues impacting enterprise operations. A successful candidate will thrive in a high-volume, fast-paced off-price retail environment, ensuring that our platforms remain secure, performant, and available to meet business demands. **A Day in the Life** ===================== **Leadership & Team Management** * Lead, coach, and develop a team of 5-9 System Engineers and Administrators (FTEs & consultants), ensuring clear goals, performance metrics, and accountability. * Foster a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous improvement. * Manage workload distribution, on-call schedules, and succession planning for critical skills. * Negotiate and oversee vendor performance, ensuring adherence to SLAs and continuous service improvement. * Collaborate with Procurement and Finance to manage budgets, renewals, licenses, commercial engagements and cloud spend.   **System Engineering and Administration** * Oversee deployment, configuration, patching, upgrades, and tuning of RHEL & SUSE virtual servers. * Drive automation using Ansible, Terraform, Bash, and CI/CD tooling. * Spearhead cloud-native container, serverless and PaaS modernization initiatives. * Support, optimize, and troubleshoot systems and related applications. * Act as the **primary escalation point** for production incidents, including root cause analysis (RCA) and permanent remediation. * Manage systems lifecycle and capacity planning, ensuring systems remain within vendor support and security guidelines. * Manage enterprise NAS, SAN and backup platforms.   **Security, Compliance & Governance** * Ensure all systems meet SOX, PCI-DSS and internal security policy requirements. * Manage auditing, encryption, and access controls. * Maintain up-to-date documentation of managed environments, configurations, and support procedures.   **Operational Excellence** * Ensure high availability and disaster recovery capabilities are tested and documented. * Manage observability and proactively address performance and availability. * Maintain a 24/7 support model for critical systems with defined SLAs for response and resolution. **You'll Come With** ==================== **Education and Qualifications:**   * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, related field, or equivalent experience. * 7+ years of hands-on Linux, DevOps or Platform Engineering experience, including SUSE or RHEL Servers in enterprise production environments. * 3+ years of experience managing a team of systems, DevOps or platform engineers. * Strong experience operating in public cloud environments like Azure, GCP or AWS. * Strong understanding of vSphere or similar virtualization technologies, compute, hardware and server management. * Experience with configuration management and automation tools, such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, etc… * Proven experience with monitoring and observability solutions like Datadog, Dynatrace, Nagios or SolarWinds * Experience troubleshooting Linux kernel, authentication, storage, networking, services, and application dependencies. * Knowledge of backup technologies, such as Veeam, NetBackup and Rubrik. * Familiarity with enterprise NAS storage platforms, managing NFS and CIFS exports. * Familiarity with networking concepts, protocols, and services, including TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NTP, and VPN. * Solid understanding of systems security, auditing, and compliance frameworks (SOX / PCI). * Experience managing platforms in 24/7 mission-critical environments. * Strong communication skills to effectively communicate technical concepts and solutions to technical, non-technical and executive stakeholders * Detail-oriented mindset with a focus on accuracy and attention to detail. * Ability to adapt to new technologies and stay updated with industry trends and advancements #LI-ML1 **Preferred Qualifications** * Experience in a retail sector or other high-volume transactional businesses. * Knowledge of databases and middleware technologies. * ITIL certification or familiarity with ITIL processes for change, incident, and problem management. **Physical Requirements** * Standard office environment; extended periods at a computer workstation. * Ability to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends, during critical incidents or maintenances. * Ability to occasionally travel to various Burlington sites, within NJ and possibly out of state. **Come join our team. You’re going to like it here!**   ======================================================= _You will enjoy competitive wages, flexible hours, and an associate discount. Burlington’s benefits package includes medical, dental and vision coverage including life and disability insurance. Full-time associates are also eligible for paid time off, paid holidays and a 401(k) plan._  _We are a rapidly growing brand and provide a variety of training and development opportunities so our associates can grow with us. Our teams work hard and have fun together! Burlington associates make a difference in the lives of customers, colleagues, and the communities where we live and work every day. Burlington Stores, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity_ Individual pay decisions will be based on a variety of factors, such as but not limited to, qualifications, education, job-related skills, relevant experience, and geographic location. Compensation Range: $115,000.00 - $150,000.00