Linux System Administrator

The AES Group; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

The AES Group is seeking an experienced Linux Server Management Engineer in Bengaluru to join our IT operations on a 5-day in-office schedule. You will manage physical and virtual servers, troubleshoot incidents, and support enterprise environments with strong VMware/XEN virtualization experience.

Your day-to-day includes patch management with BladeLogic, LVM, DNS, LDAP, IPTables, NetApp NFS storage, and incident response, while maintaining documentation and assisting L2 teams.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Linux server administration experience required.
• Experience managing physical and virtual servers.
• Familiar with VMware/XEN hypervisors and ITIL-based support.
• Knowledge of LVM, DNS, LDAP, and IPTables.
• Experience with NetApp NFS storage and patch management.

Responsibilities

• Provide L3 Linux server infrastructure support per SLAs.
• Install, configure, maintain, monitor, and decommission servers.
• Manage compute operations: incidents, changes, RCA.
• Troubleshoot Linux OS issues and outages.
• Work with VMware/XEN virtualization.
• Handle NetApp NFS storage operations.
• Patch OS using BladeLogic and manage images.
• Configure server monitoring and alerts.
• Maintain technical documentation and transfer knowledge to L2.
• Participate in on-call support including weekends/holidays.

Skills

Linux Admin

Physical Servers

Virtualization

VMware

XEN

LVM

DNS

LDAP

IPTables

Root Cause Analysis

NetApp NFS

BladeLogic

ITIL

SLA Support

Tools

BladeLogic Automation

VMware

XEN

Prometheus

Docker

Nagios

Jira

Job description

Work Mode: Work from Office – 5 Days a Week

Shift: Rotational Shifts

Job Summary

We are looking for experienced Linux Server Management Engineers with strong expertise in Linux administration, server infrastructure operations, virtualization, troubleshooting, and incident management. The ideal candidate should have hands‑on experience managing physical and virtual servers, resolving critical infrastructure issues, and supporting enterprise IT environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide L3 technical support for Linux server infrastructure in accordance with customer SLAs.
• Perform server installation, configuration, maintenance, monitoring, and decommissioning.
• Manage daily compute operations, including incidents, service requests, changes, and root cause analysis.
• Troubleshoot Linux OS issues, server outages, performance bottlenecks, and infrastructure failures.
• Work with virtualization technologies such as VMware and XEN.
• Manage LVM, DNS, LDAP, IPTables, and physical server infrastructure.
• Perform storage operations involving NetApp NFS.
• Handle OS patching using BladeLogic Automation and maintain OS images, packages, and repositories.
• Configure server monitoring, alerts, and performance analysis.
• Maintain technical documentation and provide knowledge transfer to L2 support teams.
• Participate in on‑call support, including weekends and public holidays when required.

Required Skills

• Strong hands‑on experience in Linux Server Administration.
• Experience with physical and virtual server management.
• Knowledge of VMware and/or XEN hypervisors.
• Working knowledge of LVM, DNS, LDAP, and IPTables.
• Experience in server troubleshooting, incident management, and RCA.
• Understanding of storage operations, preferably NetApp NFS.
• Knowledge of patch management and OS package/repository management.
• Familiarity with ITIL processes and SLA-driven support.

Good to Have

• Associate-level knowledge of AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Scripting knowledge in Bash or Perl.
• Exposure to Chef or other automation tools.
• Experience with BladeLogic Automation.
• Familiarity with GitHub, Jira, Prometheus, Docker, ELK Stack, or Nagios.
• Knowledge of infrastructure services such as Rsync, RPM, Active Directory, and monitoring solutions.