This is a remote position.

Manning Global, an Internationally renowned staffing and managed services organization specializing in providing staffing solutions for leading corporations in AI, IT & Telecoms, Engineering, Digital Media, Automotive and Renewable Energy is recruiting for Subject Matter Expert – Linux & Virtualisation on behalf of one of their blue-chip international clients to join their organization in the India.

Job Title:

Subject Matter Expert – Linux & Virtualisation

Employment:

FTE 1-2 yrs

Start Date:

09/01/2026

Country:

India, Bangalore, Remote

Salary range:

TBD

Contact:

Ashwini Chawan on: +49 (0) 89 23 88 98 35

About the Role

Client is seeking a Subject Matter Expert in Linux and virtualisation technologies to support enterprise infrastructure modernisation engagements. You will bring deep expertise in hypervisor technologies, software-defined infrastructure, and Linux platform engineering to help clients migrate from legacy virtualised environments to modern, cloud-native architectures. This role is central to Clients infrastructure transformation practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement virtualisation solutions using KVM, VMware, or Red Hat Virtualisation for enterprise client environments.

• Lead infrastructure modernisation projects, migrating workloads from legacy hypervisors to containerised or cloud-native platforms.

• Provide expert Linux system administration across RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu environments, including performance tuning and troubleshooting.

• Design and implement software-defined networking and storage solutions that support enterprise data and AI workloads.

• Develop automation scripts and infrastructure-as-code solutions to streamline provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management.

• Conduct capacity planning and infrastructure sizing assessments for data platform and AI workload deployments.

• Ensure all infrastructure meets enterprise security, high availability (HA), and disaster recovery (DR) requirements.

Experience/Qualifications:

• Extensive experience with enterprise hypervisors: KVM, VMware, and Red Hat Virtualisation.

• Experience 10 plus years.

• Advanced Linux Administration skills across multiple distributions (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu).

• Proven experience designing and implementing Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Software-Defined Storage (SDS).

• Proficiency in automation and configuration management using Ansible and Terraform.

• Deep understanding of High Availability (HA) architectures and disaster recovery planning.

• Experience leading complex infrastructure migration and modernization projects.