Senior Linux & Infrastructure Engineer

Brickstech; Lahore; On-site; PKR 2,000,000 - 3,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Brickstech is seeking a Senior Linux Infrastructure Administrator in Lahore to maintain and optimize our enterprise server environment. The role focuses on RHEL Linux administration, Nginx load balancers, VMware ESXi virtualization, and Dell SAN storage.

You will handle backups, DR, security hardening, and 24/7 operations support. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with RHEL, Nginx, VMware, and storage solutions, plus scripting skills and strong troubleshooting ability.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with RHEL Linux production environments.
• Experience administering Nginx Load Balancers on RHEL VMs.
• Strong virtualization experience with VMware ESXi/vSphere.

Responsibilities

• Administer and troubleshoot production RHEL Linux servers.
• Perform OS installation, configuration, patching, and upgrades.
• Manage users, groups, permissions, sudo, and SSH/SFTP.
• Troubleshoot CPU, memory, disk, filesystem, boot, and application issues.
• Manage packages using RPM/YUM/DNF.
• Analyze system logs with journalctl and /var/log.
• Manage LVM, partitions, filesystems, and mount points.
• Configure and troubleshoot SELinux and firewalld.
• Perform Linux security hardening and vulnerability remediation.
• Administer Nginx Load Balancers: configure upstreams, virtual hosts, TLS, certificates, health checks.
• Troubleshoot Nginx errors, TLS handshakes, and connectivity with backend/services.
• Manage VMware VMs: creation, resources, and performance tuning.
• Support Dell SAN/storage provisioning and storage connectivity.
• Assist in backup and DR planning and testing.
• Participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.

Skills

RHEL/Linux administration

Nginx

Bash/Shell scripting

SSH/SFTP

SELinux

Firewalld

VMware ESXi/vSphere

SAN/Storage

Troubleshooting

Backup & DR planning

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT or related field

Tools

VMware ESXi/vSphere

Nginx Load Balancers

Dell Enterprise SAN/Storage

Job description

Brickstech is seeking a Senior Linux Infrastructure Administrator in Lahore to maintain and optimize our enterprise server environment. The role focuses on RHEL Linux administration, Nginx load balancers, VMware ESXi virtualization, and Dell SAN storage.

You will handle backups, DR, security hardening, and 24/7 operations support. The ideal candidate has hands-on experience with RHEL, Nginx, VMware, and storage solutions, plus scripting skills and strong troubleshooting ability.