Linux Engineer

Zerto; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Hewlett Packard Enterprise in Bengaluru is seeking a Linux Engineer for a hybrid role, expected to work from an HPE office two days per week. You will join an IT services team that helps customers deploy and manage Linux infrastructure and resolve incidents promptly.

Responsibilities include deploying and troubleshooting Linux systems, managing cluster services, patching, DR testing, and collaborating with hardware and CoE teams to deliver reliable, secure solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering or equivalent.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in enterprise technical support environment.
• CCNA or RHCE certification is a plus.
• Willingness to work in a 24x7 support environment.

Responsibilities

• Resolve customer issues via telephone, email or remote sessions.
• Reproduce issues in-house and respond in a timely manner.
• Regular follow ups with customers with recommendations, updates and action plans.
• Identify and elevate issues to vendor per SOP.
• Leverage internal expertise to provide effective solutions.
• Maintain case documentation, SLA timelines and metrics.
• Incident, escalation and problem management as needed.
• Prepare change records and test plans.

Skills

Linux Administration

Networking Troubleshooting

Cluster Services

HP Servers & Virtual Connect

Red Hat / SUSE Linux

Patch & Security

Disaster Recovery

Technical Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering

Tools

Redhat Satellite

SUSE Linux

Job description

Linux Engineer

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

HPE Operations is our innovative IT services organization. It provides the expertise to advise, integrate, and accelerate our customers’ outcomes from their digital transformation. Our teams collaborate to transform insight into innovation. In today’s fast paced, hybrid IT world, being at business speed means overcoming IT complexity to match the speed of actions to the speed of opportunities. Deploy the right technology to respond quickly to market possibilities. Join us and redefine what’s next for you.

What You’ll Do:

Key Responsibilities:

• Resolve customer's issues via the telephone, email or remote sessions.
• Reproducing issues in-house and responding back in a timely manner.
• Regular follow ups with customers with recommendations, updates and action plans.
• Identify and elevate issues in a timely manner to vendor according to Standard Operating Procedures.
• Leverage internal technical expertise, including peers, mentors, knowledge base, community forums and other internal tools, to provide the most effective solutions to customer issues.
• Collaborate with other CoE/HW teams in diagnosing and isolating the cause of complex issues.
• Maintain quality on case documentation, SLA timeframes and operational metrics.
• Performs within the Productivity Measure of the team (scorecard)
• Incident Management: Resolve single and cross technology incidents independently. Lead the team members to resolve complex or cross technology incidents.
• Escalation Management: Identify, manage, and lead technical escalations. Participate in formal Escalation when required to support escalation especially during crisis.
• Problem Management: Proactively and reactively look for solutions to prevent problems from occurring in team/technology area. Perform Trend and Root cause analysis.
• Change Management/Implementation: Independently prepare, review, implement, rollback and test plan for change records. Perform risk and impact analysis for changes, May lead or participate in a Change Advisory Board.
• Patch and Security Management: Apply patch and security changes per policy. Proactively monitor the environment for patch compliance. Analyze patches for compatibility with each customer or internal infrastructure environment.
• Configuration Management: Ensure Configuration Management Database (CMDB) entries are complete and accurate.

What You Need to Bring

Eligibility & Qualification:

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering (or Equivalent).
• Experience: Minimum 5 years of experience in Enterprise technical support environment
• Relevant certification on the latest track like CCNA / RHCE will be an added advantage.
• Flexible to work in 24X7 support environment

Technical Skills:

• Strong Knowledge in installing, configuring, troubleshooting and Administration of all flavors of Linux.
• Troubleshooting networking issues.
• Strong understanding of Cluster Services
• Good knowledge on SAN technologies and converged solutions
• Good knowledge on HP Servers Blade, Rackmount and Virtual Connect
• OS/patch/security update/management.
• Disaster Recovery planning and conducting DR tests.
• Responsible for Standard Operating procedures issuance to incident management team.
• Prepare Service delivery reports and participate in customer meetings
• Routine Performance Analysis, Capacity analysis, security audit analysis reports to customer for necessary planned changes
• Linux Vulnerability assessment and Mitigation
• HPE Service Guard cluster on RHEL
• Knowledge on Patch deployment solutions – Redhat Satellite
• Working knowledge on SUSE Linux and HP UX

Non-Technical Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills Commitment to deliver high quality product and solution support.
• Must achieve excellent customer satisfaction
• Take ownership and work with high productivity and efficiency.
• Support other team members and seek their advice to make decisions on complex issues.
• Deliver trainings when required.

Additional Skills:

Accountability, Accountability, Action Planning, Active Learning, Active Listening, Bias, Business Growth, Business Planning, Coaching, Commercial Acumen, Creativity, Critical Thinking, Cross-Functional Teamwork, Customer Experience Strategy, Customer Solutions, Data Analysis Management, Data Collection Management (Inactive), Data Controls, Design Thinking, Empathy, Follow-Through, Growth Mindset, Intellectual Curiosity (Inactive), Long Term Planning, Managing Ambiguity {+ 5 more}

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Services

Job Level:

Specialist

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