DevOps System Engineer II

Arrise Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd.; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions firm in Hyderabad is looking for an Infrastructure Engineer to manage and optimize enterprise systems and virtualization environments. The role involves strong Linux administration, configuration management, networking, and backup strategies. Candidates should have 6-9 years of experience and a degree in engineering. This position offers the chance to work with cutting-edge technologies like VMware and AWS, driving operational excellence in a dynamic team.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux administration skills with experience in installation and management.
• Experience with storage solutions like LVM and RAID.
• Proficient in networking services and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain Linux servers.
• Apply OS hardening and vulnerability patching.
• Monitor and optimize system performance.

Skills

Linux Administration

Storage Management

Networking

Security

Monitoring

Automation

Virtualization

Backup Management

Education

B.E./B.Tech or equivalent degree

Tools

Nagios

Zabbix

Prometheus

Grafana

Ansible

VMware vSphere

Job description

Job Description

Arrise Solutions (India) Pvt. Ltd. is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will contribute to end-to-end infrastructure provisioning and automation, with a strong focus on VMware and data centre environments. Your responsibilities will include configuration management, tool administration, production system support, application environment maintenance, observability, and the development of internal tools. You will play a key role in driving operational excellence across all team initiatives. Experience in AWS Cloud administration will be considered an added advantage.

Role Summary: We are looking for a highly skilled Linux & Infrastructure Engineer to manage and optimize enterprise systems, networking, and virtualization environments. This role involves ensuring secure, high-performing infrastructure through automation, monitoring, and best practices. If you have strong Linux administration skills and a passion for building resilient systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Install, configure, and maintain Linux servers (CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian).
• Apply OS hardening, vulnerability patching, and security best practices.
• Perform system updates, kernel upgrades, and manage user accounts, permissions, and sudo policies.
• Configure and maintain storage solutions (LVM, RAID, ext4/XFS filesystems, NFS/SMB mounts).
• Implement and manage backup strategies (full, incremental, differential, snapshot-based).
• Configure and troubleshoot networking services (DNS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, FTP/SFTP), VLANs, bonding/teaming.
• Monitor and optimize system and network performance using Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Implement high-availability and failover solutions.
• Automate deployments and configurations using Bash/Python and Ansible.
• Manage and maintain VMware vSphere or equivalent virtualization environments.

Mandatory Technical Skills

• Linux Administration: OS installation, hardening, patching, kernel upgrades, user management.
• Storage Management: LVM, RAID, filesystems (ext4, XFS), NFS/SMB mounts.
• Networking: DNS, DHCP, VLANs, bonding, troubleshooting with tcpdump, ip, netstat, ss, nmap, traceroute.
• Security: iptables, firewalld, SELinux, access controls.
• Monitoring: Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Automation: Bash, Python scripting, Ansible.
• Virtualization: VMware vSphere or equivalent.
• Backup Management: Full, incremental, differential, snapshot strategies.

Good to Have Skills

• Cloud: AWS administration, security best practices, resource management.
• IaC: Terraform, AWS CloudFormation.
• CI/CD: Git, Jenkins, GitLab pipelines.

Qualifications

• Education: B.E./B.Tech or an equivalent degree.
• Experience: 6-9 years in software engineering with a strong background in designing, developing, and operating robust, scalable data centre infrastructures.