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Lead Platform Engineer

Location: Eagan, MN
Listed: 3 days ago

About the role

The Lead Linux Platform Engineer will be a critical member of the Global Linux Server Platform team at Ecolab, Inc. This position is in a high-paced and demanding environment which requires clear time management skills, self-directed organizational skills, and attention to detail. Additionally, the ideal candidate is a self-starter, self-disciplined with their work, and often going above and beyond what is needed/requested. Furthermore, as a global company, this role will work alongside many IT associates with a multi-cultural and multi-lingual background with English as a second language.

What You Will Do

Technical lead for our Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). Create and maintain AAP playbooks for automated disaster recovery and Linux operational work.
Provide operational support of the companies ~600 Linux based servers. This includes both OnPrem and Cloud based servers. Including
Provide server admin support related to resolving break/fix type incidents in the team queue
Install, configure, upgrade, patch and maintain Linux servers, ensuring high availability and scalability.
Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and optimize resource utilization.
Work closely with network engineers, SAP engineers, database administrators, and application developers.
Participate in major IT projects related to the Linux platform.
Participating in Security, Vulnerability and Patching related initiatives for Linux Platform

Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
8 years of IT experience
5 years of UNIX (SLES and RHEL Linux, AIX a plus) Server experience
5 years of Ansible experience.
Flexibility to work nights and weekends, participating in on-call rotations
Expertise in Creating and maintaining Ansible playbooks.
Expertise in SLES, RHEL and AIX OS support
Proficiency in shell scripting and automation.
Experience with Azure
No Immigration Sponsorship available

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with SUSE Multi-Linux Management
Experience with containers and Kubernetes
Experience with supporting SLES for SAP.
GCP and AWS Cloud experience.

Annual or Hourly Compensation Range

The base salary range for this position is $107,600.00 - $161,500.00. This position is eligible for annual bonus pay based on performance, per plan terms. Many factors are taken into consideration when determining compensation, such as experience, education, training, geography, etc. We comply with all minimum wage and overtime laws.

Benefits

Ecolab strives to provide comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. Click here to see our benefits.
If you are viewing this posting on a site other than our Ecolab Career website, view our benefits at jobs.ecolab.com/working-here.

Potential Customer Requirements Notice

To meet customer requirements and comply with local or state regulations, applicants for certain customer-facing roles may need to:

Undergo additional background screens and/or drug/alcohol testing for customer credentialing.

Equal opportunity and legal notices

Ecolab will provide reasonable accommodation (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with our application process upon request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require accommodation assistance in this application process, please visit the Recruiting Support link in the footer of each page of our career website.

Read the original posting

From Ecolab's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on November 6, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.

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