Lab Administrator
sira consulting an 5000 companyChicago (IL)
About the role
Job Description:
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.
Key Responsibilities:
-Provision and maintain physical and virtual servers, network devices, storage, test tools, and shared lab services. Install, configure, patch, and monitor Linux systems, hypervisors, containers, and supporting middleware. Manage user access, credentials, network connectivity, IP plans, VLANs, DNS, NTP, certificates, and remote-access services. Coordinate environment reservations, build deployments, test-data setup, resets, backups, and recovery activities. Monitor lab health and capacity; troubleshoot hardware, operating system, network, and infrastructure issues. Maintain inventory, rack diagrams, topology documents, licenses, warranties, spares, and asset movement records. Apply security, safety, change-control, and access-governance procedures for shared environments. Automate repetitive administration, monitoring, health checks, and reporting using scripts or configuration tools. Mandatory Skills-Hands-on Linux administration and troubleshooting. Strong understanding of TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, NTP, firewalls, and remote access. Experience with VMware, KVM, Kubernetes, Open Shift, Ansible, monitoring, or backup tools. Experience with virtualization platforms and basic container administration. Ability to diagnose server, storage, network, and connectivity issues using logs and system tools. Experience maintaining lab documentation, inventory, access records, and support tickets. Willingness to provide onsite support and coordinate with distributed engineering teams.
Must Have:
Skills-Laboratory equipments Telecom: Networking Preferred / Good-to-Have Skills-Exposure to telecom test environments, 4G/5G network elements, traffic generators, or protocol analyzers. Scripting using Python, Bash, or Power Shell. Tools / Platforms: Linux, VMware or KVM, Kubernetes or Open Shift, Ansible, Python or Bash, Wireshark, monitoring tools, ticketing and asset systems
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