Role Overview
We are looking for a Senior Linux SRE / Linux Engineer who combines strong Linux system administration expertise with hands-on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience. You will manage production Linux infrastructure, maintain high-availability clusters, and improve reliability through automation, observability, and proactive engineering.
**Hands-on experience with both Veritas Cluster Server (VCS / InfoScale) and OpenSVC is essential.**
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, troubleshoot, and optimise enterprise Linux environments (RHEL,Ubuntu,Debian), including performance, networking, storage, security, and patching.
- Configure and maintain **Veritas and OpenSVC clusters**, including resource dependencies, failover, recovery, upgrades, and high-availability testing.
- Apply SRE practices to improve service availability, resilience, scalability, and operational efficiency.
- Define and monitor service-level indicators and objectives (SLIs/SLOs), and use error budgets to guide reliability improvements.
- Build automation for provisioning, configuration management, deployments, and routine operations to reduce manual effort.
- Improve monitoring, logging, and alerting to detect issues early and accelerate incident resolution.
- Lead production incident troubleshooting, conduct root-cause analysis, and implement preventive actions.
- Support disaster recovery planning, capacity management, and recovery testing.
- Maintain operational documentation and runbooks, and participate in an on-call rotation.
Required Skills & Experience
- Strong senior-level experience managing production Linux (.RHEL,Ubuntu,Debian) infrastructure
- Proven SRE experience beyond traditional system administration, including automation, observability, incident management, and measurable reliability improvements.
- Hands-on experience administering and troubleshooting Veritas Cluster Server / InfoScale and OpenSVC in production.
- Solid understanding of cluster architecture, quorum, fencing, split-brain prevention, resource dependencies, and failover behaviour.
- Strong Linux troubleshooting skills across CPU, memory, disk I/O, filesystems, networking, and system services.
- Proficiency in Ansible , Bash and/or Python, plus configuration management Puppet.
- Experience with monitoring and logging platforms such as Dynatrace, Grafana, OpenSearch, or equivalent.
- Working knowledge of storage technologies, TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, and disaster recovery.
- Strong ownership, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work effectively during critical incidents.
Desirable
- Experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, virtualisation, containers, or cloud platforms.
- Relevant Linux, Veritas, or cloud certifications.
