Lab Infrastructure Engineer - Linux, Cloud & Telecom

HCL Technologies Limited; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

HCLTech is seeking an experienced Lab Operations Engineer to operate and support a telecom or cloud validation lab, ensuring infrastructure availability, secure access, environment readiness, asset control, and timely troubleshooting for engineering and test teams.

You will provision servers, network devices, storage, test tools, and lab services; install Linux, monitor systems, manage virtualization, and coordinate environment deployments and backups; maintain documentation, inventories, and

Qualifications

• Hands-on Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Strong TCP/IP, routing, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, NTP, firewalls.
• Experience with virtualization platforms and container administration.
• Diagnose server, storage, network, and connectivity issues using logs and system tools.
• Experience maintaining lab documentation, inventory, access records, and support tickets.
• Willingness to provide onsite support and coordinate with distributed engineering teams.
• Exposure to telecom test environments and 4G/5G network elements.

Responsibilities

• Provision and maintain physical and virtual servers, network devices, storage, test tools, and shared lab services.
• Install, configure, patch, and monitor Linux systems, hypervisors, containers, and supporting middleware.
• Manage user access, credentials, network connectivity, IP plans, VLANs, DNS, NTP, certificates, and remote-access services.
• Coordinate environment reservations, build deployments, test-data setup, resets, backups, and recovery activities.
• Monitor lab health and capacity; troubleshoot hardware, operating system, network, and infrastructure issues.
• Maintain inventory, rack diagrams, topology documents, licenses, warranties, spares, and asset movement records.
• Apply security, safety, change-control, and access-governance procedures for shared environments.
• Automate repetitive administration, monitoring, health checks, and reporting using scripts or configuration tools.

Skills

Linux admin

Networking basics

Virtualization

Diagnostics

Lab documentation

Onsite support

Tools

VMware

KVM

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Ansible

Monitoring tools

Job description

HCLTech is seeking an experienced Lab Operations Engineer to operate and support a telecom or cloud validation lab, ensuring infrastructure availability, secure access, environment readiness, asset control, and timely troubleshooting for engineering and test teams.

You will provision servers, network devices, storage, test tools, and lab services; install Linux, monitor systems, manage virtualization, and coordinate environment deployments and backups; maintain documentation, inventories, and