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 24×7 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.
What happens once you apply? Click Here to find all you need to know about what our typical hiring process looks like.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
Skills Required
- People-management experience in a 24x7 operations environment (performance management, career development, succession planning)
- Strong grasp of ITIL processes and cloud operational best practices
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and crisis leadership skills
- Strong skills in automation and fostering automation culture
- Advanced hands-on expertise administering RHEL, SUSE, AIX, Solaris (experience with at least two)
- Experience with Red Hat OpenShift, OpenStack, OCI or Azure (experience with at least one; multi-cloud preferred)
- Deep understanding of compute, storage, and networking in cloud environments
- Knowledge of cloud identity and access management (IAM)
- Understanding of cloud security and the shared responsibility model
- Exposure to cloud migration strategies (rehost, re-platform, refactor)
- Understanding of cloud cost management and optimization
- Academic credentials from recognized and accredited institutions (subject to verification)
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Ericsson Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage options are described as broad, with multiple medical plan choices (often three) plus dental and mental health resources. U.S. materials also reference PPO and HDHP options, and some teams contribute to HSAs.
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Retirement Support — U.S. postings outline a 401(k) with an automatic 3% company contribution plus matching that reaches 4% when employees contribute 5%. This combination is repeatedly listed in role postings and characterized as strong for the sector.
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Parental & Family Support — U.S. job descriptions frequently cite up to 16 weeks paid maternity leave and 6 weeks paid parental/adoption leave at 100% pay. These benefits are positioned as exceeding many U.S. corporate policies.
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Ericsson builds the digital connectivity the world relies on. Our technology underpins the mobile networks, platforms, and systems that billions of people, businesses, and societies depend on every day. We are a global leader in communications technology, delivering mobile network infrastructure, cloud software, and wireless connectivity solutions for service providers and enterprises worldwide. Our networks support connectivity across 180+ countries, helping power everyday communication as well as critical digital services at global scale. Connectivity has evolved far beyond consumer mobile use. Today, nearly 80% of the world’s population accesses the internet via mobile networks, and Ericsson is helping shape what comes next. We are advancing 5G and 5G Advanced, developing network APIs that open connectivity to the global developer ecosystem, and applying automation and AI to make networks more intelligent, efficient, and resilient. Ericsson was the first company to launch live 5G networks on five continents, and our 5G platform is now commercially live in 150+ networks across 60+ countries. We also support more than 36,000 enterprise customers, enabling secure, high-performance connectivity for industries such as manufacturing, aviation, logistics, utilities, and public safety, where reliability and performance are mission critical. Innovation is central to how we work. Ericsson has approximately 28,000 employees in research and development, backed by one of the strongest intellectual property portfolios in the industry with 60,000+ granted patents. Our engineers, researchers, and technologists work across 100+ global R&D sites, helping define how networks evolve and how digital infrastructure is built for the long term. As the world moves toward a mobile-first, AI-powered, and cloud-driven future, connectivity becomes the foundation for digital transformation across every industry. Ericsson is building that foundation, shaping the future of digital connectivity through technology that operates at global scale and supports real-world impact, today and for what comes next.
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Ericsson is a place for people who want to work on technology that powers everyday life. You’ll contribute to large-scale systems used every day, tackle complex challenges in live environments, and keep developing your skills and career in your own vision.
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