Responsibilities

• Deployment, maintenance, support and monitoring of our infrastructure in the Bangalore office
• Act as sole onsite IT presence, therefore support and troubleshoot local technical issues from laptops to AV equipment
• Administration (of local and in part) of entire network- wide CentOS and Ubuntu Linux systems; systems security tasks including security scanning, patching and systems hardening
• Configure, add and maintain laptop, server, and network inventory including: firewall, Switches, and WiFi access points
• Partner with teammates ship across sites on various IT projects
• Onboarding of new employees at the Bangalore office by deploying necessary hardware and provisioning accounts
• Other task and duties as determined from time to time
• This role will have a physical as well as remote administration and support aspects

Required Qualifications

• Degree/diploma in Computer Science or demonstrated combination of education and experience
• 2+ years of Systems Administration experience in a small to mid-size company using Linux (CentOS/Redhat/Ubuntu)
• Linux+ certification
• 2+ years of installation and maintenance of enterprise level hardware, small deployments count provided its standard equipment
• 1+ years of experience with Network management, both physical infrastructure cabling and switches/firewall
• Experience with Veeam Back-ups or similar tools, managing backup & restoration implementation and testing
• Proficient with SNMP/Nagios/Managed Engine based Monitoring, ElasticSearch, Jamf and Grafana
• Worked with firewalls (Fortinet) and Linux based firewall (IPTABLES/IPCHAINS)
• Strong documentation abilities necessary to ensure timely problem resolution
• Experience with container orchestration systems (such as Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon ECS, EKS, Rancher)
• Skilled at managing cloud-based environments in AWS and Azure
• Proven ability to work autonomously with limited direction and oversight

Preferred Qualifications

• Network Administration with CCNA certification
• Administration experience with Office 365, and Google Workspace
• Strong technical problem-solving skills and experience in IP networking and static routing FTP, SSH, SMTP, DNS, HTTP/S, DHCP
• Python and other scripting languages such as bash, Ruby etc
• Intermediate knowledge of TCP/IP including the usage of stateful and stateless firewalls, access control lists, packet capture and logging, network design, Subnetting, IP routing, IPSEC virtual private networks, and intrusion detection and prevention
• Experience with automation/configuration management tools using Ansible, Chef or an equivalent
• Mac support and experience with Jamf is preferable