Target Hiring Engineer - Virtualization in Bangalore | Full Time

Job Overview

Target is hiring an Engineer – Virtualization for its Bangalore, India engineering team. This full-time role focuses on building, supporting and improving compute virtualization and infrastructure capabilities. Candidates should have at least six months of apprenticeship, internship, training or equivalent hands-on experience in infrastructure, software engineering, cloud, virtualization or a related area.

The engineer will build foundational knowledge across compute infrastructure, server virtualization, operating systems, networking, storage, automation and cloud technologies. With guidance from experienced engineers, the role includes troubleshooting technical issues, contributing to automation and engineering tasks, documenting findings and gradually taking greater ownership of assigned work.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop practical knowledge of compute infrastructure and server virtualization through deployment, configuration, testing and support.
• Troubleshoot Linux and Ubuntu environments, virtualization platforms, networking, infrastructure and application issues with guidance from experienced engineers.
• Gain hands-on exposure to Ansible, infrastructure APIs, automation workflows and configuration management.
• Build Go engineering practices, including Git usage, code reviews, testing, debugging, documentation and design discussions.
• Monitor services through metrics, logs, dashboards and alerts, and participate in production support activities.
• Document and share technical findings, procedures, troubleshooting steps and lessons learned.
• Collaborate with engineering and partner teams, communicate progress and blockers, and take on increasingly complex responsibilities as skills develop.

Technical Skills and Knowledge

• Compute virtualization: Familiarity with virtual machines, hypervisors, hosts, clusters, CPU and memory, and resource allocation concepts.
• Linux and Ubuntu: Knowledge of common Linux commands, basic administration and troubleshooting.
• Compute, storage and networking: Fundamental understanding of infrastructure, IP addressing, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, load balancing, high availability, and persistent versus ephemeral compute.
• Programming: Basic software-development practices and exposure to at least one low-level programming language. Go or Golang experience is an advantage, not a requirement.
• Version control: Familiarity with Git and collaborative development practices such as code reviews.
• APIs: Understanding of REST APIs; familiarity with gRPC is beneficial.
• Automation: Understanding of automation and configuration-management concepts; Ansible exposure is preferred.
• Testing: Knowledge of unit, integration and automated testing concepts.
• Cloud: Understanding of how cloud compute resources are provisioned and managed.
• Containers: Exposure to Docker, containerd or Kubernetes is an advantage.
• Monitoring and logging: Familiarity with Grafana, InfluxDB or the ELK stack is beneficial.

Education

A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology or a related field is required. Equivalent practical or industry experience is also accepted.

Experience

The role requires approximately six months or more of apprenticeship, internship, training or equivalent hands-on experience in infrastructure, software engineering, cloud, virtualization or a related technology area. No maximum experience limit is specified in the posting.

What Target Looks For

• Curiosity and learning: Interest in understanding systems, asking thoughtful questions, learning from experienced engineers and applying feedback.
• Accountability: Taking ownership of assigned tasks, communicating when blocked, following through on commitments and learning from mistakes.
• Teamwork: Working respectfully with engineers and partner teams, sharing knowledge and contributing to common goals.
• Problem-solving: Investigating issues logically using logs, documentation, error messages and observed system behaviour.
• Communication: Explaining technical information clearly, documenting findings and sharing progress, questions and blockers.

Work Mode and Location

Location: Bangalore, India.

Employment type: Full time.

The job posting does not specify a remote or hybrid arrangement. The work mode for this listing is therefore set to onsite by default.

Who Should Apply

This opportunity may suit candidates with a relevant Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience who have completed at least six months of hands-on learning or work in infrastructure, software engineering, cloud or virtualization. Applicants should have foundational knowledge of Linux, networking, compute and storage concepts, and an interest in developing engineering skills in virtualization and automation.

Exposure to Go, Ansible, gRPC, Docker, containerd, Kubernetes, Grafana, InfluxDB or the ELK stack can be useful. The posting identifies Go as an advantage rather than a requirement, and describes several other tools as preferred or beneficial exposure.

How to Apply

Review the technical expectations and experience criteria before applying. Highlight relevant apprenticeship, internship, training or hands-on projects, along with knowledge of Linux, virtualization, networking, programming, APIs and automation. Apply now through SoftoJobs to explore this opportunity.