Lab Administrator

Job Description

Job Description:

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• Operate and support a telecom or cloud validation lab, ensuring infrastructure availability, secure access, environment readiness, asset control, and timely troubleshooting for engineering and test teams.

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• Key Responsibilities-

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• Provision and maintain physical and virtual servers, network devices, storage, test tools, and shared lab services.

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• Install, configure, patch, and monitor Linux systems, hypervisors, containers, and supporting middleware.

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• Manage user access, credentials, network connectivity, IP plans, VLANs, DNS, NTP, certificates, and remote-access services.

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• Coordinate environment reservations, build deployments, test-data setup, resets, backups, and recovery activities.

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• Monitor lab health and capacity; troubleshoot hardware, operating system, network, and infrastructure issues.

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• Maintain inventory, rack diagrams, topology documents, licenses, warranties, spares, and asset movement records.

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• Apply security, safety, change-control, and access-governance procedures for shared environments.

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• Automate repetitive administration, monitoring, health checks, and reporting using scripts or configuration tools.

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Mandatory Skills-

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• Hands-on Linux administration and troubleshooting.

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• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, NTP, firewalls, and remote access.

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• Experience with VMware, KVM, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Ansible, monitoring, or backup tools.

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• Experience with virtualization platforms and basic container administration.

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• Ability to diagnose server, storage, network, and connectivity issues using logs and system tools.

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• Experience maintaining lab documentation, inventory, access records, and support tickets.

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• Willingness to provide onsite support and coordinate with distributed engineering teams.

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Must Have Skills-

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• Laboratory equipments

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• Telecom : Networking

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Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills-

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• Exposure to telecom test environments, 4G/5G network elements, traffic generators, or protocol analyzers.

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• Scripting using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

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• Tools / Platforms: Linux, VMware or KVM, Kubernetes or OpenShift, Ansible, Python or Bash, Wireshark, monitoring tools, ticketing and asset systems

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