SRE Linux- Scripting Admin

About Position:

As a Senior Systems Operations Engineer, you will play a key role in managing and optimizing a global 24x7 production infrastructure. This includes ensuring reliability, scalability, and security across multi-site environments, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving automation and performance improvements. You’ll be the first line of defense for incidents, contribute to architecture design, and support seamless product rollouts while maintaining industry-standard operational practices.

• Role: SRE Linux- Scripting Admin

• Location: Pune

• Experience: 7 to 14 Years

• Job Type: Full Time Employment

What You'll Do:

• Build long lasting, effective partnerships across the organization to foster collaboration between Product, Engineering and Operations teams.
• Manage an international 24x7, multi-site production infrastructure powering the Proofpoint services, including deployment, maintenance, troubleshooting, performance tuning, and security.
• Root-cause complex problems and involve multiple stakeholders, network, hardware and software that relate to scaling and performance.
• Ensure proper monitoring, alerting, capacity planning and reporting in the production environment.
• Contribute to the evolving design and architecture of reliable and scalable infrastructure.
• First line of defense during working hours should any alerts or incidents arise.
• Collaborate with product engineering teams to ensure Operations standards are observed, determine resource impacts for upcoming product deployments, and ensure successful product rollouts.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and be willing to jump on escalated issues as needed

Expertise You'll Bring:

• Demonstrable skills and 5+ years of experience managing, troubleshooting, and tuning Linux systems.
• A friendly and collaborative demeanor, working well with cross functional teams.
• Experience automating management of systems and applications using Perl, Python, or Ruby.
• Experience with industry-standard foundation technologies such as TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, SMTP, and LDAP.
• Experience in management of a large, distributed computing environment.
• Experience with virtualization – KVM, VMware vSphere, and/or OpenStack
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience with monitoring and alerting systems.
• Experience with industry-standard operational practices such as change management, incident management, and working in colocation datacenters.
• Experience with configuration management such as Puppet or Chef.
• Experience with load-balancing technologies – F5, Netscaler or similar desired.
• Experience with Kafka, Elastic Search, Cassandra, and MySQL desired.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Culture focused on talent development with quarterly growth opportunities and company-sponsored higher education and certifications
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies
• Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
• Annual health check-ups
• Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

Values-Driven, People-Centric & Inclusive Work Environment:

Persistent Ltd. is dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We invite applications from all qualified individuals, including those with disabilities, and regardless of gender or gender preference. We welcome diverse candidates from all backgrounds.

• We support hybrid work and flexible hours to fit diverse lifestyles.
• Our office is accessibility-friendly, with ergonomic setups and assistive technologies to support employees with physical disabilities.
• If you are a person with disabilities and have specific requirements, please inform us during the application process or at any time during your employment

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