Role Overview :

Linux Solution Consultant with 8+ years of overall IT experience, including 3+ years in solution or platform consulting roles, with a strong understanding of VMware, KVM, and other enterprise virtualization platforms.

Responsibilities :

Architecture & Design :

- Lead solution and enterprise architecture activities, translating business, security, and operational requirements into implementable technical architectures.

- Drive architecture governance, including architecture board reviews, approvals, and compliance to enterprise standards.

- Identify, document, and justify product gaps, risks, constraints, and acceptable architectural deviations.

- Translate high-level architectures into executable technical designs, standards, and reference architectures.

Implementation :

- Design, deploy, and operate solutions using HPE VM Essentials / Morpheus, with strong hands-on involvement.

- Provide advanced Linux / UNIX administration and troubleshooting, including performance tuning and stability improvements.

- Design and implement KVM-based virtualization solutions in enterprise environments.

- Develop automation scripts and tooling to standardize provisioning, configuration, validation, and lifecycle management.

- Support technical validation, UAT, and production readiness activities.

- Perform root cause analysis with structured incident, problem, and post-incident documentation.

Delivery & Collaboration :

- Resolve technical dependencies and cross-domain integration challenges.

- Work effectively with cross-functional teams, including operations, compliance, and business stakeholders.

- Demonstrate high accountability and reliability in meeting delivery commitments.

- Context-switch effectively between technical deep dives, architectural discussions, and stakeholder conversations.

Mandatory Technical Skills :

- KVM virtualization experience.

- Strong infrastructure and compute background : Virtualization, Networking, Storage, Security.

- Strong capability to analyse customer requirements and develop viable technical solution proposals.

- Strong understanding of Linux / Unix : Kernel behavior, boot process, systemd, Filesystems (ext4, XFS, GFS2), LVM, VxFS, multipathing, udev.

- Experience in Serviceguard and pacemaker clustering technologies.

- Strong understanding of Storage : SAN/NAS concepts (FC, iSCSI, NFS), Storage integration with Linux and virtualization platforms.

- Strong understanding of Virtualization & Compute : Extensive experience with KVM/libvirt, VMware concepts (ESXi, vCenter) and migration strategies, CPU models, NUMA awareness, SR-IOV, PCI passthrough, nested virtualization.

- Strong understanding of Networking : Deep understanding of Linux networking (Bonding, bridging, VLANs), TCP/IP fundamentals, MTU, jumbo frames, troubleshooting complex network paths in virtualized environments.

- Advanced Linux administration and troubleshooting.