Lab Admin III

Location: Bangalore

We are looking for an experienced Lab Administrator to build, operate, and maintain a reliable and scalable engineering test lab from the ground up.

The Lab Administrator will own the end-to-end lab infrastructure, including physical servers, virtualization platforms, networking equipment, racks, cabling, connectivity, and day-to-day lab operations. The role requires strong hands-on experience in configuring and managing hypervisors such as Proxmox and KVM, along with the ability to troubleshoot switches, routers, and internet connectivity issues.

You will work closely with QA, development, IT, and engineering teams to ensure that the lab environment is available, stable, secure, and ready to support product testing and automation.

Tasks

Build and set up engineering and QA test labs from scratch, including rack planning, hardware installation, cabling, power, and network connectivity

Install, configure, and maintain physical servers and virtualization infrastructure

Configure and manage hypervisors, including Proxmox and KVM

Create, maintain, and troubleshoot virtual machines and virtualized test environments

Configure and maintain switches, routers, firewalls, and other networking equipment used in the lab

Diagnose and resolve network connectivity, routing, switching, DNS, DHCP, and internet access issues

Manage lab assets, including servers, networking devices, storage, cables, and other infrastructure equipment

Monitor lab health, capacity, resource utilization, and infrastructure availability

Perform hardware troubleshooting and coordinate repairs or replacements when required

Maintain documentation for lab topology, rack layouts, IP addressing, hardware inventory, and infrastructure configurations

Support QA and engineering teams with lab setup, environment provisioning, and infrastructure-related issues

Improve lab reliability, scalability, standardization, and operational efficiency

Establish processes for lab access, equipment usage, maintenance, and issue tracking

Qualifications BE/MCA/Diploma, university degree, or equivalent technical training and professional experience in computer science, IT, networking, systems administration, or a related field

10+ years of relevant experience in lab administration, data center operations, systems administration, or engineering infrastructure

Demonstrated experience in building and establishing a test or engineering lab from scratch

Strong hands-on experience with Proxmox, KVM, and virtualization technologies

Strong troubleshooting experience with switches, routers, network connectivity, and internet-related issues

Good understanding of physical server hardware, networking, storage, racks, cabling, and power infrastructure

Experience with Linux systems and virtual machine administration

Ability to independently diagnose and resolve complex infrastructure and connectivity issues

Strong ownership of lab operations, availability, and day-to-day maintenance

Ability to work with limited supervision and collaborate effectively with QA, development, IT, and other engineering teams

Takes ownership of complex lab infrastructure work and provides technical leadership within the team