System Admin

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.