IT Support Engineer
Platform9: A Better Way to Go Cloud Native
Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise Private Clouds. Founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers, we are dedicated to transforming IT operations. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns your existing hardware into a full-featured, future-ready private cloud. We innovate across what we build and how we deliver it, staying focused on a next-generation, open private cloud while holding ourselves to one standard: exceptional customer outcomes.
Enterprises are selecting Platform9 to replace legacy virtualization because it eliminates operational risk and complexity. Private Cloud Director is designed for the experienced infrastructure team, offering a familiar GUI experience for managing VMs and containers, seamless integration with your existing hardware and third-party storage, and critical enterprise features (HA/DR, scale, reliability) built-in. This enables IT teams to gain robust API control and a user experience they trust—rooted in customer obsession and an owner’s mindset. We share context quickly and candidly to keep decisions moving.
With over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace, Platform9 is the proven path to achieving true vendor independence and operational consistency. We are an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, supported by a partner ecosystem of resellers, systems integrators, MSPs, and technology vendors committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency. Our values—innovation, customer obsession, ownership, radical candor, and excellence—guide how we build and support every deployment.
Position Summary:We are looking for an awesome IT System Administrator for our Pune office in India. The selected
The individual will own our IT in India. This is an opportunity to be part of a team that's building a platform
for engineers like you to manage large private clouds. This role is crucial to the next phase of growth for
the company.
Roles & Responsibilities:
● Passionate for documentation and automation. We have a strong culture of replacing manual
processes with repeatable automation
● Broad understanding of and experience with managing corporate network and office setups and
network
● Able to put in place IT best practices like procuring hardware and user provisioning/management
and configuration management
● Experience with managing and optimizing office infrastructure spending and tracking OKRs or
similar metrics.
● Familiarity with configuration and management of Layer 2/Layer 3 physical network
infrastructure
● Practical experience in compliance business practices like PCI/SOC 2
● Familiarity in network management, DNS management, switch configuration, VLAN, security and
best practices, VPN access, QoS, variety of protocols, internet connectivity, Office WiFi
management
● Familiar with Apple HW, setup and management.
● A positive attitude (“Can do!”) and an ability to work with multiple competing demands on your
time
● End-to-end support our Pune office’s users community
● Familiar with ticketing systems—JIRA, Zendesk, Salesforce, Confluence, and others.
Preferred Skills & Qualifications:
● 5 to 10 years of experience as an IT support engineer
● Experience with Linux administration (CentOS and Ubuntu preferred)
● Experience with Google Suite of tools, MS Office tools,
● Comfortable with industry standard practices related to security
● Experience with alerting systems, monitoring tools and performance metric-gathering tools
● Knowledge of OpenStack, KVM, VMware or Docker are desirable
Benefits and Perks:
Employees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognize their whole person. Platform9’s
benefits and perks have been carefully designed to ensure that we take care of an employee's emotions
and physical well-being. Many of our benefits extend to families, who form a significant part of our
well-being at work
Please note, benefits change by country.
● Competitive Compensation and Equity
● Medical Healthcare for you and your family
● Generous Time Off Programs
● Hybrid Work Model
● Wellness Benefits
● Professional Development/Global certifications
● Reward and Recognition Programs
● Team Building Activities
● Hackathon
● Company-Wide Programs
Our benefits have been carefully selected, keeping in mind employees' requirements and personal
situations now and for the future.