Unix Manager

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About this opportunity:

We are looking for a senior manager with strong expertise/hands-on on UNIX & Cloud Operations and leading a team of UNIX/Linux engineers responsible for on-prem, hybrid, and cloud-hosted UNIX/Linux platforms, container platforms (OpenShift), and private cloud infrastructure (OpenStack).

This role blends people leadership, technical ownership, and cloud operational governance, ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure aligned to business outcomes.

What you will do:

• Line manager for UNIX/Linux and cloud engineers, including performance management, career development, and succession planning.

• Own end-to-end operations for UNIX/Linux platforms across on-prem, private cloud (Openshift/Openstack), and public cloud (Azure/OCI/etc.).

• Build cloud-ready skills within the team through coaching, training, and stretch assignments.

• Foster a culture of automation, reliability, and continuous improvement.

• Foster a high-performance and collaborative team culture

• Ensure availability, performance, capacity planning, and resilience of cloud-hosted workloads.

• Lead incident response for cloud-based outages and complex hybrid failures.

• Own change, incident, problem, and availability management across hybrid infrastructure.

• Manage cloud vendors, managed service providers, and platform support contracts.

The skills you bring:

• Proven people-management experience in a 24x7 operations environment and strong technical leadership skills.

• Strong grasp of ITIL processes and cloud operational best practices.

• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and crisis leadership skills.

• Strong skills on automations.

• Strong and advanced hands-on/expertise administering RHEL, SUSE, AIX, Solaris (at least two).

• Strong experience with Redhat Openshift, Openstack, OCI (at least one; multi-cloud preferred).

• Deep understanding of:

  • Compute, storage, networking in cloud environments
  • Cloud identity and access management (IAM)
  • Cloud security and shared responsibility model
  • Exposure to cloud migration strategies (rehost, re-platform, refactor).

• Understanding of cloud cost management and optimization.

“All academic credentials must be from recognized and accredited institutions and are further subject to verification.”

Why join Ericsson?

At Ericsson, you´ll have an outstanding opportunity. The chance to use your skills and imagination to push the boundaries of what´s possible. To build solutions never seen before to some of the world’s toughest problems. You´ll be challenged, but you won’t be alone. You´ll be joining a team of diverse innovators, all driven to go beyond the status quo to craft what comes next.

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Encouraging a diverse and inclusive organization is core to our values at Ericsson, that's why we champion it in everything we do. We truly believe that by collaborating with people with different experiences we drive innovation, which is essential for our future growth. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our Ericsson team. Ericsson is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. learn more.

Primary country and city: India (IN) ||

Req ID: 789156