Lab Administrator (Support & Operations) Chicago - IL - Illinois

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 TCPIP, 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, 4G5G 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