Linux Operations Engineer

Open Positions : Linux L1 and Linux L2

Shifts : Rotational

Mode : Work from office

Location : Pune, Maharashtra

Hiring for a full time (FTE) opportunity with one of our esteemed client

Role & responsibilities

• Administer and maintain RHEL systems (provisioning, patching, upgrades, decommissioning) in enterprise environments.
• Perform L2/L3 troubleshooting and execute deep root cause analysis (RCA) for incidents.
• Enforce system security (hardening, patch compliance, vulnerability remediation).
• Execute day-to-day operations, service requests, and application-related OS support.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) playbooks, roles, and workflows to automate provisioning and operational tasks at scale.
• Monitor system health, logs, and performance, and implement automation for optimization.
• Hands-on RHEL administration with Ansible/AAP and Red Hat Satellite.
• Drive automation-first approach to reduce manual operational effort.
• Collaborate with application, database, and infrastructure teams for deployments and issue resolution.
• Support server and OS requirements for application onboarding and projects.
• Handle incident response, escalation, and recovery activities in production environments.
• Hands-on experience in VMware administration, including virtual machine deployment, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance tuning, and disaster recovery readiness.
• Support infrastructure improvements, standardization, and risk reduction initiatives.
• Experience administering core Linux services, including TCP/IP, DNS, PKI/certificate management, and services such as Apache/Nginx, NFS, and SSH.
• Provide basic operational support for OpenShift platforms (pods, logs, basic troubleshooting).
• Continuously improve operational processes, runbooks, and platform efficiency.

Required Skills:

• Strong Linux system administration experience.
• Automation and configuration management (e.g., Ansible).
• Monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Grafana).
• GitLab as a version control system.
• Git-based version control and CI/CD workflows.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Nice to Have:

• Experience supporting remote desktop, VDI, or similar platforms.
• Experience with graphics-intensive or compute-heavy environments.
• Experience working with HPC clusters.
• Experience working with SLURM.
• Exposure to engineering or simulation software platforms.