Lead Engineer - System Administrator

CBTS; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

CBTS is seeking a seasoned system administrator to own advanced Linux/Windows compute environments, drive automation, and maintain security baselines. You will manage patching, upgrades, and lifecycle maintenance, while tackling complex incidents and performing RCA.

The role emphasizes capacity planning, cost optimization, and adherence to change control, audit trails, and compliance requirements. Collaboration with engineering teams will be essential to uplift operational maturity.

Qualifications

• Experience administering Linux and Windows compute environments.
• Ability to implement automation scripts and workflows.
• Proficient in patching, upgrades, and lifecycle maintenance.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident RCA skills.
• Familiarity with security baselines, hardening, and audit trails.

Responsibilities

• Lead system administration for Linux/Windows compute environments.
• Implement automation scripts/workflows for routine ops.
• Troubleshoot compute platform incidents and perform RCA.
• Support capacity planning and compute cost optimization.
• Ensure security baseline compliance and system hardening.
• Review changes and uplift operational maturity.
• Maintain audit trails and change control discipline.

Skills

Linux administration

Windows administration

Automation

Patching and upgrades

Troubleshooting

Security hardening

Change management

Job description

Job Description:

Role Purpose : Owns advanced system administration responsibilities across server & compute environments ensuring stable, secure, scalable and well-governed infrastructure operations by driving configuration management, platform hygiene, automation adoption and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead system administration for Linux/Windows compute environments including configuration management, OS performance tuning, patching, upgrades and lifecycle maintenance.
• Implement automation scripts / workflows for routine ops, deployment, configuration changes & environment hygiene reduction of manual work.
• Perform advanced troubleshooting for compute platform incidents, support RCA actions and ensure closure of high impact issues.
• Support capacity planning, resource optimization and compute cost optimization with platform teams.
• Ensure enterprise security baseline compliance, vulnerability remediation and system hardening controls.
• Review changes, validate implementation quality, coach junior engineers and uplift operational maturity.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and security requirements, including change control discipline, access management standard, and audit trail maintenance.

Requirements: