Sr.Lead Engineer - System Administration

CBTS; Chennai District; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

CBTS seeks a seasoned systems administrator to lead end-to-end management of enterprise compute platforms across Linux, Windows and Unix environments. You will design automation, runbooks and governance practices to deliver secure and reliable services, while mentoring junior engineers and ensuring compliance with change control and incident management processes.

In this role you will drive automation, oversee patching and lifecycle maintenance, and collaborate with infrastructure and platform

Qualifications

• Lead complex system administration across Linux/Windows/Unix compute environments.
• Design automation scripts and operational runbooks to improve deployment speed and consistency.
• Conduct root-cause analysis, drive corrective actions and provide escalation support.

Responsibilities

• Administer Linux, Windows and Unix compute environments end-to-end (provisioning, configuration, OS tuning, patching, upgrades, lifecycle maintenance).
• Design and implement automation scripts and repeatable workflows to improve environment hygiene and reduce manual effort.
• Resolve complex incidents, perform root-cause analysis and drive corrective actions for high-impact issues.
• Support capacity planning, performance monitoring and cost efficiency in partnership with infrastructure, cloud and platform teams.
• Maintain security baseline compliance through vulnerability remediation, hardening and access control validation.
• Review changes, mentor junior engineers and promote engineering standards and documentation discipline.

Job description

• Role Purpose: Leads complex system administration and compute operations across enterprise server environments, ensuring secure, reliable, scalable and well-governed platforms through advanced troubleshooting, automation, configuration standards, lifecycle management and continuous service improvement.
• Key Responsibilities:
• Lead end-to-end administration of Linux, Windows and Unix-based compute environments, including provisioning, configuration management, OS tuning, patching, upgrades and lifecycle maintenance.
• Design and implement automation scripts, repeatable workflows and operational runbooks to improve deployment speed, configuration consistency, environment hygiene and manual effort reduction.
• Resolve complex compute platform incidents and problems, lead root-cause analysis, drive corrective actions and provide technical escalation support for high-impact issues.
• Support capacity planning, performance monitoring, resource optimization and compute cost efficiency in partnership with infrastructure, cloud and platform teams.
• Maintain security baseline compliance through vulnerability remediation, system hardening, access control validation and audit-ready operational practices.
• Review technical changes, validate implementation quality, mentor junior engineers and promote engineering standards, documentation discipline and operational maturity.
• Ensure adherence to change control, incident management, access management and regulatory requirements while maintaining accurate configuration records and audit trails.
• Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):
• Compute platform uptime & SLA adherence
• Patch compliance / security posture improvement
• Automation coverage & manual effort reduction
• Accuracy & compliance of configuration standards