Lab at Sira Consulting, an Inc Schiller Park, Illinois

Summary

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, OpenShift, 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 PowerShell.
• Tools / Platforms: Linux, VMware or KVM, Kubernetes or OpenShift, Ansible, Python or Bash, Wireshark, monitoring tools, ticketing and asset systems

Job Description

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, OpenShift, 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 PowerShell.
• Tools / Platforms: Linux, VMware or KVM, Kubernetes or OpenShift, Ansible, Python or Bash, Wireshark, monitoring tools, ticketing and asset systems