What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lab Administrator (Support & Operations) Chicago - IL - Illinois position at Sierra Business Solution LLC?
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
Salary : $49 - $56