Responsibilities:
- Build and Upgrade of Red Hat Linux and Windows Operating Systems to latest.
- Installation/Configuration/Upgrade of Servers.
- Study the Servers Inventory and assess to qualify for OS Upgrade.
- Perform the preparation work required for OS Upgrade.
- Proactively resolve the issues leading up to Upgrade Window.
- Perform the OS Upgrade activities including Patching, Hardening, rollback (if needed).
- Preventive/Proactive Support.
- Incident/Change/Problem Management.
- Support for post-build activities like Hardening, detailed verification.
- Other IT Infrastructure Related Tasks.
- Able to support on weekends/ roster as per Change implementation tasks.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise (Mid to Expert Level):
- Having 5+ years of extensive experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x/7.x/8.x/9.x Administration and Windows 2008/2012/2016/2019.
- Bachelors degree in Ccomputer Science or any other related field.
- Must Have: Intensive experience in Build/Upgrade of RHEL and Windows Servers.
- Experience with using Patching tools like Bigfix, SCCM, etc.
- Hands-on experience on Ansible, Chef tools to perform Hardening.
- Knowledge of using Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins pipelines.
- Experience with Scripting like Shell, Bash, PowerShell, Python.
- Deep understanding of HPE ProLiant, Dell Hardware and VMWare.
- Professional understanding of networking related to RHEL/Windows.
- Professional understanding of SAN Storage related to RHEL/Windows.
- Good understanding of large Data Center Facilities operation.
- Hands-On experience supporting Infrastructure and Security agents (NetBackup, BMC Patrol etc.)
