Senior Linux Systems Integration Advisor

NTT DATA, Inc.; Indianapolis (IN); On-site; USD 16,000 - 22,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA, Inc. seeks a seasoned Linux Systems Integration Specialist Advisor to join our team in India.

The role expects 10–15 years of enterprise Linux/Unix administration, deep OS expertise across multiple flavors, and strong automation skills to design scalable automation frameworks and drive incident resolution. The candidate will handle patching, clustering, and high availability tasks, while coordinating with global teams on ITIL processes and service delivery.

Qualifications

• Must be a graduate (B.Tech/B.E./MCA or equivalent).
• Minimum 10 to 15 years of experience as a Linux/Unix System Administrator in enterprise environments.
• Expertise in at least two UNIX flavors (Linux mandatory; AIX/Solaris/HP-UX preferred).
• Deep understanding of Linux OS internals, performance tuning, and system architecture.

Responsibilities

• Patching, vulnerability remediation, and compliance management using enterprise tools.
• Lead and manage critical/high severity incident bridges (P1/P2) and perform RCA.
• Design and implement automation frameworks to improve operational efficiency.
• Build, configure, and upgrade Linux servers across environments; OS migrations and lifecycle management.
• Data center operations, DR, and large-scale transformation and migration projects.
• Monitoring and observability using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk.
• Drive automation initiatives and AI-Ops/Infrastructure as Code concepts.

Skills

Linux/Unix Admin

Unix/Linux flavors

Shell scripting (Bash)

Python exposure

Automation tools (Ansible/Puppet/Chef)

Incident management

Clustering & HA

System performance tuning

Cloud & virtualization (VMware/KVM)

OpenStack/OpenShift/Docker/Kubernetes

Education

B.Tech/B.E./MCA or equivalent

Tools

Satellite/Spacewalk

Veritas/Pacemaker/Red Hat Cluster

Ansible/Puppet/Chef

VMware/KVM/Hyper-V

OpenStack/OpenShift/Docker/Kubernetes

Job description

NTT DATA, Inc. seeks a seasoned Linux Systems Integration Specialist Advisor to join our team in India.

The role expects 10–15 years of enterprise Linux/Unix administration, deep OS expertise across multiple flavors, and strong automation skills to design scalable automation frameworks and drive incident resolution. The candidate will handle patching, clustering, and high availability tasks, while coordinating with global teams on ITIL processes and service delivery.