Linux Administrator

New Delhi, India
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Function:

HD IT

Requisition ID:

1036541

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Digital, a company at the forefront of digital transformation and the fastest‑growing division of the Hitachi Group. We play a crucial role in the company’s strategy and ambition to become a premier global player in the fast‑moving digital transformation market.

Our group companies — including GlobalLogic, Hitachi Digital Services, Hitachi Vantara, and more — offer comprehensive services that span the entire digital lifecycle, from the initial idea to full‑scale operation and the underlying infrastructure. Hitachi Digital represents One Hitachi, integrating deep domain knowledge with advanced digital capabilities and harnessing the collective power of our services, technologies, and partnerships to accelerate impact for our customers and society.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to unleash a digital future. We don’t expect you to ‘fit’ every requirement — your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving meaningful outcomes in the world are equally important to us.

Linux Administrator

We are seeking a Linux Administrator with 8+ years of experience.

Mandate Skills Required:

Linux administration (installing, hardening, patching, performance and kernel tuning, logging, managing partitions and filesystems, authentication (including PAM). Distros: RHEL 8,9; free RHEL-derivatives (any of Rocky Linux, Alma Linux, Oracle Linux), Ubuntu;
Configuration management: Ansible (writing playbooks, managing inventories, variables etc);
Git experience (working with remote repositories, branches, managing conflicts). Gitlab preferred;
Understanding of networking (OSI model): IP addressing, subnetting, routing, load-balancing, ports, firewalls, connections. Person need to be able to troubleshoot distributed services, find issues and work with network team on resolving it;
Understanding of MySQL databases like how to work at database level, creation, modification of databases. Backup and recovery, replication;
Understanding of DNS servers like installation, configuration of bind in Linux (split-horizon DNS using DNS view) and basic understanding of how DNS works - record types, which type is used in which case etc;
Understanding of Web Servers like Nginx and Apache management, configuration of websites into web servers, SSL certificates;
Good English communication skills - both written and verbal;

Good to have Skills which will be an added advantage:

Understanding of cloud technologies like GCP (preferred) or any cloud like - aws and azure.
Understanding of managed SQL databases like - Cloud SQL in GCP OR RDS in AWS.
Understanding of Gitlab CI like how to create pipelines in gitlab etc.
Microservices (docker)
Kubernetes
Terraform
Monitoring tools like prtg, grafana (snmp)

Preferred Skills (Nice to Have)

Experience with SharePoint Online administration
Knowledge of Intune, Defender for Office 365, and compliance policies
Familiarity with hybrid Active Directory environments
Basic scripting experience in PowerShell for automation

About Us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co‑create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data‑driven leaders capable of making a positive impact on their industries and society.

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Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.