Server Administrator

Alois Solutions; Hyderabad, Bengaluru; On-site; INR 700,000 - 1,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Alois Solutions is seeking a seasoned Linux Server Administrator to manage server estates, including physical/VMs, virtualization via VMware/Xen, and storage using NetApp NFS. You will troubleshoot outages, perform installations and decommissions, and ensure security group and repository management across clouds.

The role requires 3–6 years of Linux experience, exposure to public clouds (AWS/Azure/GCP), scripting (bash/Perl) and automation tools (Chef).

Qualifications

• Minimum 3–6 years of Linux server management experience.
• Strong experience with server installation, maintenance, and decommissioning.
• Solid Linux OS operations and troubleshooting in downtime scenarios.

Responsibilities

• Deliver 3rd level technical support in line with SLAs.
• Handle daily compute operations (events, incidents, service requests, root cause analysis) per ITIL.
• Perform server installation, maintenance, monitoring, decommissioning, and specialized configurations beyond automation.
• Manage storage operations with NetApp NFS and related repositories.

Skills

Linux

Server management

VMware

Xen

DNS

LDAP

IPTables

LVM

Troubleshooting

Public Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Scripting (bash, Perl)

Automation tools (Chef)

GitHub

Jira

Prometheus

ELK stack

Security Groups

Rsync

Nagios

Active Directory

Tools

NetApp

Docker

Kubernetes

Jira

GitHub

Job description

Job Description:

• Overall 3 6 years Experience in Server Management Administration (Linux).
• Experience in Server (physical/VM) installation, maintenance & decommissioning.
• Profound Linux OS operations experience.
• Knowledge in hypervisor operations (XEN and VMware).
• To have good knowledge in LVM, DNS, LDAP and IPTables.
• To have good troubleshooting skills in server down situation.
• Knowledge in physical server management.
• Additionally, associate level knowledge in at least one public cloud landscape (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Basic knowledge in automation tools and (e.g. chef) and scripting (e.g. bash, Perl)
• Additionally, knowledge/experience in using GitHub and Jira would be beneficial.
• Any experience in monitoring with Prometheus on docker setup and/or ELK stack would be beneficial (not mandatory)
• Any knowledge for central infrastructure services is recommended and highly beneficial (Security Groups/RPM/Rsync/Mail/Active Directory/Chef automation/Nagios/repository management/Monitoring)
• Able to provide knowledge transfer from certain technology areas towards 2nd level technical support.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Deliver 3rd level technical support in compliance with customer SLAs
• Daily Compute operations (Events/Incidents/SR/CR/RCA ..) following ITIL processes
• Server installation, maintenance, monitoring, decommission and special configurations beyond automated tasks
• Storage Operations based on netapp-nfs
• Package/repository management and OS image maintenance