DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer (On-Premises)

Fortek (Private) Limited is expanding itson-premises ICT infrastructure and data center footprint, including GPU-enabledcompute for AI/ML workloads. The DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer will bethe operational backbone of this environment — owning the full lifecycle ofcompany-owned physical and virtual servers, from provisioning and hardeningthrough to automation, monitoring, and disaster recovery. This is a hands-on,individual-contributor role for someone who is equally comfortable in a serverroom, a Kubernetes cluster, and a runbook.

The incumbent will work closely with the Head ofEngineering/CTO and cross-functional engineering teams to build repeatable,secure, and well-documented infrastructure practices, while directly supportinglocal production systems, CI/CD pipelines, and GPU-accelerated deployments thatunderpin Fortek's service delivery to clients across Pakistan's ICT and datacenter sector.

Position Structure

Department

IT

Line Manager

Stream

DevOps & Infra

Job Requirements

Skills & Tools

Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor'sdegree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or arelated field.

Certifications (Preferred)

Other Skills & Tools

• Linuxadministration; bare-metal and virtualized infrastructure (VMware, Proxmox,Hyper-V); Docker/Kubernetes; Ansible; Git; Nginx/HAProxy.
• Grafana,Prometheus, Loki, Tempo/OpenTelemetry; networking fundamentals (VLANs, DNS,DHCP, VPNs, firewalls).
• NVIDIA GPUservers, drivers, CUDA and container toolkit; storage, backups, access control,patching and disaster recovery.

Job Experience Required

• 2+ yearsof hands-on experience in DevOps, systems administration, infrastructureengineering, platform engineering, or a related role.
• Experiencesupporting local production servers, building CI/CD pipelines, automatinginfrastructure and troubleshooting live systems.
• Experiencedeploying applications or AI/ML workloads on GPU-enabled servers, including GPUcontainers and monitoring, is a strong advantage.

At Fortek, we believe in empowering our people. We offer:

Competitive salary based on experience and qualifications

Annual performance-based increments & bonuses

Medical facility

Paid annual, casual & sick leaves

Gratuity and EOBI benefits

Collaborative, learning-driven work environment, and much more

Let’s build the future together!

Duties & Responsibilities

• Design,install, configure and maintain secure production infrastructure oncompany-owned physical and virtual servers.
• AdministerLinux systems and virtualization clusters (VMware, Proxmox or Hyper-V); managecompute, memory, storage, OS patching and capacity.
• Maintainworking knowledge of Windows Server for mixed environments.

2. DevOps Automation & CI/CD

• Build andoperate self-hosted CI/CD runners, source-control integrations, artifactrepositories and container registries.
• Automateprovisioning, configuration and repeatable operations using Ansible, scripting(Bash/Python) and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Deploycontainerized applications and AI/ML workloads on GPU-enabled local serversusing Docker/Kubernetes.
• MaintainNVIDIA GPU drivers, CUDA and container runtimes; monitor GPU utilization,memory, temperature, health and workload performance.

4. Network & Security Administration

• Manageinternal networking: VLANs, routing, DNS, DHCP, VPNs, reverse proxies, loadbalancers (Nginx/HAProxy) and firewalls.
• Applyleast-privilege access controls, secrets management, hardening, vulnerabilityremediation and audit logging.
• MaintainTLS certificate lifecycle across internal and client-facing services.

5. Monitoring, Backup & Disaster Recovery

• Implementand maintain observability using Grafana, Prometheus, Loki andTempo/OpenTelemetry, with centralized logging.
• Ownbackups, restore testing, replication, high availability, incident response,root-cause analysis and disaster recovery.

6. Documentation & Stakeholder Coordination

• Maintaininventory, architecture diagrams, SOPs and runbooks.
• Coordinateinfrastructure changes with developers and provide on-call support as required.
• Log allincidents, service requests, risks and escalations in Odoo per Fortek's agreedtracking protocol.

Reporting Responsibilities (Daily, Weekly & Monthly)

Daily Reporting

• Monitor server, GPU, storage, network, application, database, backup, deployment and pipeline health; respond to alerts and incidents.
• Resolve incidents and service requests; log actions, risks and escalations in Odoo Helpdesk/Task modules.

Weekly Reporting

• Submit deployment, incident, reliability and capacity summaries to the Line Manager and engineering stakeholders via Odoo.
• Review infrastructure changes, patching, backup/restore status, vulnerabilities, access and capacity items.

Monthly Reporting

• Submit KPI report in Odoo covering uptime, incidents, MTTR, deployment performance, resource utilization, backup success and security posture.
• Review CPU/GPU/server/storage capacity, lifecycle needs, DR readiness, documentation and the infrastructure roadmap.