Linux & Private Cloud Engineer

Role Overview:

We are looking for an experienced Linux & Private Cloud Engineer to manage, support, and maintain enterprise Linux infrastructure and private cloud platforms. The role will involve server administration, private-cloud infrastructure management, virtualisation, automation, monitoring, security, troubleshooting, and production support.

The successful candidate should have strong hands-on experience with Linux operating systems, virtualisation technologies, private cloud platforms, networking, storage, and infrastructure automation.

Key Responsibilities:

Linux Administration

• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot Linux servers, primarily RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux, or Ubuntu.
• Perform server provisioning, patching, upgrades, hardening, and performance tuning.
• Manage Linux users, groups, permissions, SSH, services, processes, filesystems, and storage.
• Troubleshoot OS, application, resource utilisation, and connectivity issues.
• Analyse system logs and perform root-cause analysis.
• Implement backup, recovery, and disaster-recovery procedures.
• Ensure Linux systems comply with enterprise security and operational standards.

Private Cloud Infrastructure

• Deploy, administer, and maintain private cloud infrastructure and platforms.
• Manage virtual machines, compute resources, clusters, resource pools, templates, and virtual networks.
• Support private-cloud provisioning, scaling, capacity management, and lifecycle management.
• Monitor infrastructure health, availability, capacity, and performance.
• Perform infrastructure upgrades, migrations, patching, and maintenance activities.
• Support high-availability and disaster-recovery environments.
• Troubleshoot private-cloud infrastructure issues across compute, network, storage, and virtualisation layers.

Virtualisation

• Hands-on experience with VMware vSphere/ESXi, Nutanix AHV, KVM, or equivalent virtualisation platforms.
• Manage virtual machines, clusters, hypervisors, snapshots, templates, and resource allocation.
• Troubleshoot VM performance and hypervisor-related issues.
• Support VM migration, consolidation, provisioning, and capacity planning.
• Work with virtual networking and distributed switching environments.

Storage & Networking

• Good understanding of enterprise storage technologies including SAN, NAS, NFS, iSCSI, and virtual storage.
• Troubleshoot storage capacity, performance, connectivity, and availability issues.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, firewalls, load balancers, and network connectivity.
• Support virtual networking within private-cloud environments.
• Work closely with network and storage teams to resolve infrastructure issues.

Automation & Infrastructure Management

• Develop automation scripts using Shell/Bash, Python, or PowerShell.
• Automate server provisioning, configuration, patching, monitoring, and routine operational activities.
• Experience with Ansible, Terraform, or similar automation/IaC tools.
• Maintain configuration standards and infrastructure documentation.
• Use Git or equivalent source-control platforms where applicable.

Monitoring & Operations

• Monitor infrastructure availability, capacity, performance, and utilisation.
• Work with monitoring and logging tools such as Nagios, Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or equivalent.
• Respond to infrastructure incidents and service requests.
• Perform incident investigation, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Participate in change, problem, and incident-management processes.
• Support production environments and participate in on-call activities when required.

Required Technical Skills:

• Strong hands-on Linux system administration experience.
• Experience with RHEL / CentOS / Rocky Linux / Ubuntu.
• Strong knowledge of Linux processes, services, filesystems, storage, networking, and security.
• Hands-on experience with private cloud or enterprise virtualisation environments.
• Experience with one or more:

1. VMware vSphere / ESXi
2. Nutanix AHV
3. OpenStack
4. KVM
5. OpenShift / Red Hat private cloud

• Good understanding of compute, storage, virtual networking, and hypervisor technologies.
• Experience with Ansible and/or Terraform.
• Good scripting knowledge in Bash/Shell and/or Python.
• Strong troubleshooting and production-support experience.
• Understanding of enterprise backup, disaster recovery, and high-availability concepts.

Good-to-Have Skills

• Experience with Nutanix, VMware, OpenStack, or Red Hat OpenShift.
• Experience managing large-scale private-cloud environments.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and container platforms.
• Experience with Ceph or other software-defined storage technologies.
• Knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Experience with infrastructure monitoring and observability platforms.
• Linux certifications such as RHCSA/RHCE.
• VMware, Nutanix, or OpenStack certifications.
• Exposure to public-cloud platforms such as AWS or Azure.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 4–8 years of relevant experience in Linux, infrastructure, virtualisation, or private-cloud operations.

Key Competencies

• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently in a production environment.
• Good understanding of enterprise infrastructure architecture.
• Strong communication and documentation skills.
• Ability to work with application, network, security, and infrastructure teams.
• Proactive approach to infrastructure monitoring and problem resolution.
• Willingness to participate in maintenance windows and on-call support where required.