Job Description
Job Title:  LEAD ADMINISTRATOR L1
City:  Pune
State/Province:  Maharashtra
Posting Start Date:  10/8/26
Wipro Limited (NYSE: WIT, BSE: 507685, NSE: WIPRO) is a leading technology services and consulting company focused on building innovative solutions that address clients’ most complex digital transformation needs. Leveraging our holistic portfolio of capabilities in consulting, design, engineering, and operations, we help clients realize their boldest ambitions and build future-ready, sustainable businesses. With over 230,000 employees and business partners across 65 countries, we deliver on the promise of helping our customers, colleagues, and communities thrive in an ever-changing world. For additional information, visit us at www.wipro.com.
Job Description: 

IBM Connect Direct SME

 

Role Purpose

We’re hiring an IBM Connect Direct Subject Matter Expert (SME) to own and evolve our managed file transfer (MFT) and secure file gateway platforms. You’ll lead installation, configuration, upgrades, automation, and operational excellence across IBM Connect Direct and IBM Sterling File Gateway, working closely with application teams, infrastructure, network, and security to deliver stable, secure, and auditable file transfers.

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Key responsibilities
Platform engineering & SME ownership
● Act as the technical SME for IBM Connect Direct (CD) across build, run, and change.
● Lead installations, configurations, upgrades, patching, migrations, and platform enhancements .
● Maintain platform standards: configuration baselines, naming conventions, certificate/key management approach, and operational runbooks.
● Drive capacity planning, performance tuning, and resilience improvements.
Operations, incident/problem management
● Provide L2/L3 support for production issues: triage, root cause analysis, and permanent fixes.
● Troubleshoot end-to-end MFT flows including process definitions, scheduling, connectivity, authentication, encryption, and partner onboarding.
● Improve monitoring/alerting and reduce repeat incidents through automation and problem management.
Automation & DevOps enablement
● Build and maintain automation using Ansible, Jenkins, and GitHub (CI/CD for configuration, deployments, and repeatable changes).
● Develop and maintain Bash/Python scripts for operational tasks (log parsing, housekeeping, certificate checks, health checks, reporting).
Observability & performance
● Implement and enhance monitoring using Splunk (dashboards, alerts, correlation searches) and AppDynamics (application performance insights where relevant).
● Monitoring system healthiness (availability, transfer success rate, latency, queue depth, error rates).
Infrastructure, network & security collaboration
● Partner with network/infrastructure/security teams on firewall rules, routing, DNS, load balancers, TLS/certificates, vulnerability remediation, and access controls.
● Ensure secure configuration aligned to enterprise security expectations (encryption in transit/at rest, least privilege, audit logging).
Cross-platform support
● Provide support across Linux and Windows Server environments, including service/process management, troubleshooting, and patch coordination.

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Required skills & experience
● ~8 years of hands-on experience in enterprise middleware / managed file transfer / platform engineering.
● Strong experience with IBM Connect Direct:

Installation, configuration, upgrades/patching, process configuration, troubleshooting, performance tuning.
● Strong Linux administration skills:

Service/process management, file permissions, networking basics, log analysis, troubleshooting.
● Scripting skills in Bash and/or Python for automation and operational tooling.
● Experience with Ansible, Jenkins, and GitHub in a DevOps delivery model.
● Working knowledge of Splunk (search, dashboards, alerting) and AppDynamics (usage for diagnostics/monitoring).
● Solid understanding of networking and security concepts (TLS, certificates, ports, firewalls, authentication/authorisation).
● Experience supporting Windows Server environments.

͏Qualifications

● Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
● Relevant IBM product certifications are a plus (Connect Direct).



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Mandatory Skills: IBM HTTP Server .

 

Experience: 5-8 Years .

 

Reinvent your world. We are building a modern Wipro. We are an end-to-end digital transformation partner with the boldest ambitions. To realize them, we need people inspired by reinvention. Of yourself, your career, and your skills. We want to see the constant evolution of our business and our industry. It has always been in our DNA - as the world around us changes, so do we. Join a business powered by purpose and a place that empowers you to design your own reinvention.
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