Linux Administrator

Your Team Responsibilities

Provide effective support for Kubernetes environments (Rancher K8s platform) to ensure a stable and resilient platform.

Manage tickets efficiently for quicker turnaround and improved end-user experience.

Lead effective incident response and resolution for Linux-related issues to minimize downtime and ensure platform resilience.

Execute structured change management for Linux and Kubernetes infrastructure modifications.

Drive infrastructure automation initiatives across the organization to address operational challenges.

Lead projects aimed at improving processes, procedures, and operational efficiency; remediate technical debt.

Own and deliver infrastructure projects, systematic improvement programs, and risk reduction roadmaps.

Collaborate across teams, ensuring effective stakeholder communication, transparency, and reporting.

Leverage AI-driven observability, diagnostics, and automation tools to enhance reliability, performance, and operational efficiency.

Champion AI-assisted workflows that augment human engineering judgment and accelerate troubleshooting, change execution, and decision-making.

Your Key Responsibilities

Exercise technical expertise with Kubernetes and Linux to drive cloud and on-prem solutions

Drive technical Kubernetes discussions across infrastructure, application development and support teams Design and implement Kubernetes clusters on GKE, AKS and on-premises

Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to Kubernetes clusters

Automate the deployment, scaling, and monitoring of Kubernetes clusters

Assist with developing and maintaining cloud standards, policies, processes and procedures to support and facilitate integration projects, cloud migration and onboarding

Lead projects to introduce and implement new technologies, ensuring security compliance and application performance to meet business needs

Experience with container orchestration and containerization technologies

Interface with technology providers to remediate integration related technical challenges Keep pace with emerging tools, techniques, and cloud platforms

Provide advanced support for Kubernetes clusters and associated container ecosystems. Specifically for Rancher Platform Kubernetes ecosystems. 

Optimize ticket handling through tooling, automation, and AI-assisted triage to improve throughput and resolution quality.

Lead proactive troubleshooting using a combination of traditional engineering skills and AI-driven insights, pattern detection, and predictive diagnostics.

Experience with DevOps CI/CD tools such as Terraform, Azure DevOps, GitHub, Ansible

Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Azure Log Analytics is a plus

Plan and implement Linux/Kubernetes infrastructure changes using established change processes and AI-supported impact analysis.

Drive automation initiatives, including AI-guided code generation, policy automation, and self-service workflows.

Deliver projects focused on operational excellence, scalability, and modernization.

Implement systematic improvement plans and risk-reduction initiatives, leveraging AI analytics to prioritize operational hotspots.

Foster strong cross-team collaboration and ensure clear, data-driven communication.

Actively experiment with, evaluate, and adopt AI solutions to improve efficiency, reduce toil, and enhance service quality.

Design and refine “human-in-the-loop” operational models where AI handles repetitive work while engineers review, validate, and improve outcomes.

Your skills and experience that will help you excel
Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline and 10+ years of hands-on experience with Red Hat Linux, Oracle Linux, and Oracle/Sun Solaris (9/10/11).

Deep understanding of Linux OS internals, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

Strong experience installing, configuring, and optimizing RHEL/Oracle Linux on Intel platforms.

Proficiency with core Linux services (Puppet, Jenkins, Ansible, NFS, AutoFS, Samba, DNS, LDAP, NTP, etc.).

Ability to research, validate, and apply system/security patches per corporate security standards.

Hands-on experience with ticketing tools (e.g., ServiceNow) and service workflows.

Working knowledge of Linux security methodologies, best practices, and hardening.

Experience generating system monitoring, performance, and operational reports.

Proficiency with Configuration Management tools such as Puppet/Hiera and Ansible.

Ability to compile applications/tools from source.

Operational knowledge of VMware and Cisco UCS.

Understanding of SAN/NAS technologies.

Working knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration. Specific to Rancher Platform.

Knowledge of Azure/AWS cloud operations; familiarity with Terraform/ARM desired.

Networking principles (TCP/IP) are a strong plus.

Experience using or integrating AI tools for system diagnostics, log analytics, incident triage, and RCA generation.

Ability to design AI-assisted workflows to reduce engineering toil, accelerate deployments, and enhance service reliability.

Hands-on experience with generative AI or LLM-powered tools for scripting (e.g., shell, Python), configuration automation, and code quality checks.

Understanding human-in-the-loop models for validating AI-generated remediation steps, configuration changes, and infrastructure recommendations.

Ability to evaluate AI outputs critically, refine prompts, and use model insights to improve operational decision-making.

Demonstrated capability to innovate using AI for monitoring, anomaly detection, predictive scaling, self-healing automation, and change risk evaluation.

Familiarity with AI agents or orchestration frameworks in Infrastructure Ops is a plus.