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 settings including cluster health, namespaces, workloads, RBAC, secrets, config maps, storage, networking, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
Automate repetitive administration tasks using shell scripting, Ansible, Python, or equival

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