Job Posting Title: Senior IT Architect - Linux
Hiring Department: Enterprise Technology - Customer Support
Position Open To: All Applicants
Weekly Scheduled Hours: 40
FLSA Status: Exempt from FLSA
Earliest Start Date: Jan 04, 2027
Position Duration: Expected to Continue Until Dec 31, 2029
Location: AUSTIN, TX
Job Details:
General Notes
- This fixed - term position is funded for two years from the employee’s start date and may be extended.
- Flexible work arrangements are available for this position, including the ability to work remotely within the United States.
- Remote work for individuals who reside outside Texas but within the United States and its territories will be considered and requires Central Office approval.
- May require occasional travel to Austin Main Campus.
- This position provides life/work balance with typically a 40-hour work week and travel limited to training (e.g., conferences/courses).
- Enterprise Technology is dedicated to supporting the mission of the University of Texas at Austin of unlocking potential and preparing future leaders of the state.
- Your skills will make a difference. You’ll be working for a university that is internationally recognized for research and the work you do will make a difference in the lives of our students, faculty and staff.
- If you’re the type of person that wants to know your work has meaning and impact, you’ll like working for our campus.
- The University of Texas at Austin and Enterprise Technology provide an outstanding benefits package to our staff. Those benefits include:
- Competitive health benefits (Employee premiums covered at 100%, family premiums at 50%)
- Vision, Dental, Life, and Disability insurance options
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and holidays
- Teachers Retirement System of Texas (a defined benefit retirement plan)
- Additional Voluntary Retirement Programs: Tax Sheltered Annuity 403(b) and a Deferred Compensation program 457(b)
- Flexible spending account options for medical and childcare expenses
- Training and conference opportunities
- Tuition assistance
- Athletic ticket discounts
- Access to UT Austin's libraries and museums
- Free rides on all UT Shuttle and Capital metro buses with staff ID card
- For more details, please see: https://hr.utexas.edu/prospective/benefits and https://hr.utexas.edu/current/services/my-total-rewards
- Must be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis for any employer without sponsorship.
- This position requires you to maintain internet service and a mobile phone with voice and data plans to be used when required for work.
Purpose
- The Enterprise Linux Management Program requires a dedicated Senior Technology Architect to provide strategic leadership for the design, governance, and implementation of the university's Linux endpoint management platform.
- The position will ensure alignment across stakeholders, guide complex technical decisions, and provide the leadership needed to transition from fragmented Linux management practices to a sustainable enterprise service.
Responsibilities
- Enterprise Linux Platform Architecture
- Lead the design, build, and continuous improvement of a central Linux management platform supporting diverse research, academic, and administrative environments.
- Develop platform architecture for configuration management, software deployment, patching, compliance, and reporting.
- Evaluate and implement enterprise Linux management platforms such as Tanium, RHEL, or comparable platforms.
- Create platform standards that are scalable, secure, and effective across heterogeneous Linux distributions.
- Distributed IT Onboarding and Adoption
- Work directly with distributed IT teams to assess existing Linux environments, operational maturity, management gaps, and onboarding readiness.
- Develop onboarding plans to help departments transition Linux systems into a central platform.
- Create guides, onboarding checklists and documentation for campus IT teams.
- Consult with system administrators, endpoint teams, cloud teams, and application owners on platform adoption and service integration.
- Identify opportunities to consolidate redundant tooling, reduce operational fragmentation, and improve consistency across departmental Linux management practices.
- Automation, Configuration, and Compliance
- Design and maintain automation frameworks for provisioning, configuration enforcement, policy compliance, patching, reporting, and system lifecycle activities.
- Develop reusable scripts, modules, playbooks, policies, or configuration baselines using Bash, Python, or comparable technologies.
- Implement practices that support drift detection, remediation workflows, auditable change, and repeatable operations.
- Partner with information security teams to align Linux management with institutional security requirements, vulnerability management, and compliance objectives.
- Linux Platform Operations and Engineering
- Provide advanced Linux engineering guidance across RHEL, Ubuntu, or comparable enterprise distributions.
- Support platform operations across physical, virtual, containerized, and cloud-hosted Linux systems.
- Develop operational standards for patching, software distribution, access control, monitoring, logging, and service health.
- Troubleshoot complex technical issues involving Linux systems, automation frameworks, management agents, network dependencies, storage, identity, or cloud integrations.
- Reporting, Metrics, and Service Visibility
- Design reporting that provide visibility into Linux inventory, platform adoption, compliance posture, vulnerability exposure, and platform health.
- Develop executive and operational dashboards that communicate service value, onboarding progress, risk reduction, and platform maturity.
- Define measures and key performance indicators for platform adoption, service quality, compliance, and operational effectiveness.
- Use metrics to identify improvement opportunities, prioritize remediation efforts, and guide long-term Linux service strategy.
- Cloud and Hybrid Infrastructure Alignment
- Support a Linux platform across on-premises and hybrid infrastructure environments.
- Develop management patterns for cloud-hosted Linux servers, container platforms, and infrastructure-as-code workflows.
- Provide guidance on operational consistency, logging, patching, and compliance, across cloud and campus-hosted systems.
- Partner with infrastructure teams to align Linux platform services with enterprise cloud architecture standards.
- Strategic Service Leadership
- Participate in technology roadmaps, service design, and long-term infrastructure planning.
- Mentor technical staff and provide leadership on Linux management, automation, reporting