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Posted 22 May, 2026

Lead Software Engineer - Linux Automation & Lifecycle Expert

NR Consulting
Bangalore,Karnataka Full Time
Reference: 365_463738_26-03768

Title: Lead Systems Engineer - Unix
Location: Bangalore
Exp: 8 + Years

Job Description:
Must have excellent OS administration knowledge of Unix, Linux, Red Hat Linux 7/8/9
Must have experience in Redhat Satellite, Capsule and Template Management.
Knowledge on Scripting Shell / Perl and associate platform(s) and/or tools.
Must have minimum 7+ years of experience in Unix Servers operating system Administration, deploying, managing large Unix server infrastructure.
Must have experience in installing, configuring, migrating, performance tuning, troubleshooting, security, failover and load management of business application servers in various ENV.
Good to have knowledge and experience in clustering.
Must have experience in performing Unix update management tasks and troubleshoot/resolve issues.
Must have excellent debugging and problem analysis skills.
Knowledge on scripts in Shell / Perl, Python, and similar languages.
Good knowledge about virtualized environment.
Good Hands-on experience in managing, understand network requirements for Unix Server Infrastructure
Good knowledge and experience of Virtualization ,Cloud (AWS & Azure) Storage and Network
High degree of initiative, dependability and the ability to work with little supervision
Excellent communication skills to effectively communicate and deal with both internal and external customers.
Always Follow internal processes (SOPs, Golden Rules, ITIL, time tracking, escalation, etc)

Profile
Mandatory:
Linux, Red Hat Linux 5 / 6, Solaris 9/10, Veritas Volume Manager, x86 Hardware (Client/DELL/IBM), Volumetry on SAN / NAS
Veritas cluster, Vmware platform, Scripting - Shell / Perl
10+ years Linux engineering in production at scale (RHEL).
Expert in systemd, boot process, LVM, XFS/ext4, iSCSI/multipath, RAID; tcpdump, iproute2.
Strong Bash and Python; comfortable with regex and writing robust automation.
Hands-on with experts role in Puppet, Ansible, Cloud Migration (Azure and AWS), Git, and CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions).
Infrastructure as Code with Puppet and Ansible.
Security: SELinux, SSH hardening, vulnerability scanning (OpenSCAP/Qualys).
Cloud: experience with AWS/Azure, VPC/networking, IAM, On-prem to cloud migrations and managed K8s desirable.
Demonstrated leadership in complex troubleshooting, incident management, and mentoring.

Basic:
Incident management
Change management
Problem management
Capacity planning

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