Job Description:
Job Title: Senior Linux Platform Engineer – Red Hat, IPA Vault and Kubernetes
Department: Security Engineering
Reports To: Manager
Location: Bangalore, India

About the Team/Department:
The Infrastructure and Security Engineering team is responsible for building, securing, automating, and
supporting enterprise Linux platforms and cloud-native infrastructure. The team manages Red Hat
Enterprise Linux and other Linux distributions, identity and access services using IPA/FreeIPA, secrets
and certificate management through IPA Vault, and Kubernetes-based platforms supporting production
workloads.
Position Summary
We are looking for an experienced Linux Platform Engineer with robust hands-on expertise in Red Hat
Enterprise Linux, all major Linux distributions, IPA/FreeIPA, IPA Vault, and Kubernetes. The resource
will be responsible for Linux platform administration, identity and access integration, secrets and
certificate lifecycle support, automation, troubleshooting, hardening, and operational support for
business-critical infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities




• Administer, maintain, patch, upgrade, and troubleshoot Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other
Linux server environments.
• Manage Linux services, storage, networking, LVM, filesystems, systemd, kernel parameters,
SSH, DNS, NTP, and performance tuning.
• Implement Linux security hardening, access controls, patch compliance, vulnerability
remediation, and audit readiness.
• Configure and support IPA/FreeIPA services including users, groups, hosts, HBAC rules, sudo
rules, Kerberos, LDAP, certificates, and access policies.
• Support IPA Vault usage for secure storage, retrieval, sharing, and lifecycle management of
secrets, keys, passwords, and certificates.
• Administer Kubernetes environments including cluster health, namespaces, workloads, RBAC,
secrets, config maps, storage, networking, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
• Automate repetitive administration tasks using shell scripting, Ansible, Python,

📌 Senior Specialist, Linux Platform Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Rakuten
📍 Bengaluru