5G Lab Infrastructure & Operations Administrator

HCLTech; Naperville (IL); On-site; USD 69,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Paid time off

Job summary

HCLTech is seeking a Lab Administrator (Support & Operations) to manage a telecom/cloud validation lab, ensuring infrastructure readiness and secure access for engineering and testing teams in a 5G environment.

The role requires hands-on Linux administration, networking, virtualization, and automation. Onsite work in Naperville, IL, with collaboration across distributed teams to keep labs healthy and ready for validation activities.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Linux system administration and troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Provision, configure, and maintain physical and virtual infrastructure (servers, networks, storage, test tools).
• Install, patch, monitor, and troubleshoot Linux systems, hypervisors, containers, and middleware.
• Manage user access, IP addressing, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, NTP, certificates, and remote access services.
• Coordinate environment reservations, deployments, test data setup, backups, resets, and recovery.
• Monitor lab health, performance, and capacity; proactively resolve infra issues.
• Troubleshoot hardware, OS, storage, and network problems.
• Maintain inventory, topology diagrams, rack layouts, licenses, warranties, and assets.
• Follow security, access governance, and change management procedures.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts for administration, health checks, monitoring, reporting.
• Collaborate with distributed teams to ensure environment readiness.

Skills

5G Telco Infrastructure Management

Linux system administration

TCP/IP

Routing & Switching

VLANs

DNS

DHCP

NTP

Firewalls

Remote Access Solutions

Container administration (basic)

Tools

VMware

KVM

OpenShift

Ansible

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

HCLTech is seeking a Lab Administrator (Support & Operations) to manage a telecom/cloud validation lab, ensuring infrastructure readiness and secure access for engineering and testing teams in a 5G environment.

The role requires hands-on Linux administration, networking, virtualization, and automation. Onsite work in Naperville, IL, with collaboration across distributed teams to keep labs healthy and ready for validation activities.