Lead Engineer - System administrator
CBTS Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
IT Services and IT Consulting · 1,001-5,000 employees
About the role
The lead engineer will manage Linux and Windows compute environments, focusing on configuration, automation, and system stability. They are responsible for ensuring security compliance, performing advanced troubleshooting, and mentoring junior team members.
What they look for
Requirements
The role requires extensive experience in system administration, automation scripting, and infrastructure lifecycle management. Candidates must demonstrate proficiency in security hardening, capacity planning, and maintaining regulatory compliance standards.
Full description
Role Purpose : Owns advanced system administration responsibilities across server & compute environments ensuring stable, secure, scalable and well-governed infrastructure operations by driving configuration management, platform hygiene, automation adoption and continuous improvement.
2. Key Responsibilities:
· Lead system administration for Linux/Windows compute environments including configuration management, OS performance tuning, patching, upgrades and lifecycle maintenance.
· Implement automation scripts / workflows for routine ops, deployment, configuration changes & environment hygiene reduction of manual work.
· Perform advanced troubleshooting for compute platform incidents, support RCA actions and ensure closure of high impact issues.
· Support capacity planning, resource optimization and compute cost optimization with platform teams.
· Ensure enterprise security baseline compliance, vulnerability remediation and system hardening controls.
· Review changes, validate implementation quality, coach junior engineers and uplift operational maturity.
· Ensure compliance with regulatory and security requirements, including change control discipline, access management standards, and audit trail maintenance.
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