# System Admin

**Company:** [Astrome Technologies](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/475htJLUr1UMKKEUdR2FD1.md)
**Location:** Bengaluru, India
**Workplace:** on site
**Employment type:** Full-time
**Department:** Admin

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## Description

Astrome Technologies builds wireless communication hardware for both space and terrestrial applications. We’re looking for a self-motivated system administrator who enjoys open-source tooling and wants to keep the infrastructure behind that work reliable, secure, and well documented. If you want to help others and contribute to Astrome’s vision, join us.

**Responsibilities**

-   Administer the health of all computing and networking assets, including laptops, desktops, on-premises servers, remote servers, routers, switches, and other networking equipments.
-   Maintain high uptime for all servers and services, with monitoring and alerting in place.
-   Manage Ubuntu Server deployments and Linux laptops, including provisioning, patching and lifecycle management.
-   Support and maintain the CI/CD infrastructure, including GitHub/GitLab and Docker/Podman-based pipelines and runners.
-   Administer and back up SQL databases and other production data stores.
-   Perform periodic security audits, manage access control, and apply hardening best practices across all systems.
-   Maintain secure remote access to all necessary out-of-office services (VPN, SSH, etc.).
-   Automate periodic tasks, updates, and provisioning wherever possible (Bash, Python, Ansible or similar).
-   Document and keep current the network topology, configurations, and IP/VLAN plans.
-   Create, maintain, and regularly test the backup and disaster recovery policy.
-   Document your work, covering reasoning, outcomes, and references, so that anyone with reasonable domain knowledge can understand and reproduce it.
-   Coordinate with engineering and other teams to support their IT infrastructure needs.
-   Coordinate with vendors to procure and repair all IT-related requirements.
-   Manage IT infrastructure at the second office, located about 3 km from the main office, which involves occasional travel between the two sites.
-   Participate in field deployments of products at customer premises.
-   Be available for on-call duty to respond to critical incidents and outages.
-   Astrome reserves the right to reassign the employee to other roles as business requirements change.

## Requirements

-   Must have 2-3+ years of experience.
-   Qualification - BSc, B.E, B.Tech or any other related field.
-   A very good understanding of Linux and basics of Networking & Security is a must.
-   Knowledge of setting up and deploying apps in AWS, GCP, Azure or DigitalOcean.
-   Knowledge of LXC/LXD, Podman or Docker.
-   Knowledge on scripting skills in Bash and Python.
-   Knowledge of troubleshooting and replacing part of desktops and laptops.
-   Basic knowledge of HTML,CSS and JS is an added advantage.
-   Self-motivated with the ability to work independently with minimal direction from the manager.