About Cient :
Our client is one of the world's fastest-growing AI companies, accelerating the advancement and deployment of powerful AI systems.They helps customers in two ways : Working with the world’s leading AI labs to advance frontier model capabilities in thinking, reasoning, coding, agentic behavior, multimodality, multilinguality, STEM and frontier knowledge; and leveraging that work to build real-world AI systems that solve mission-critical priorities for companies.Powering this growth is our clients talent cloud—an AI-vetted pool of 4M+ software engineers, data scientists, and STEM experts who can train models and build AI applications. All of this is orchestrated by ALAN—our AI-powered platform for matching and managing talent, and generating high-quality human and synthetic data to improve model performance. ALAN also accelerates workflows for model and agent evals, supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, reinforcement learning with human feedback, preference-pair generation, benchmarking, data capture for pre-training, post-training, and building AI applications.
Job Title : Debian Engineer
Location : Pan India
Experience : 3+ yrs
Job Type : Contract to hire
Notice Period : - Immediate joiner
What does day-to-day look like :
- Design, configure, and maintain Debian-based systems
- Manage system packages and dependencies using APT and related package management tools.
- Develop and optimize deployment workflows leveraging Debian tools and shell scripting to ensure consistent and reliable software releases.
- Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve system-level issues in Debian-based setups including networking, permissions, and process management.
- Collaborate with DevOps, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure smooth integration of Debian systems into CI / CD pipelines and containerized environments.
- Establish and enforce secure configuration standards and access controls following Debian hardening guidelines.
- Document environment setup procedures, package dependencies, and system architecture for reproducibility and scalability.
Requirements :
3+ years of hands-on experience with Debian or Debian-based distributionsProven expertise in package management using APT and repository management.Strong understanding of Debian system internals, including systemd, file hierarchy, permissions, and boot processes.Experience developing and maintaining deployment workflows for software delivery and environment provisioning.Familiarity with CI / CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI / CD, or CircleCI) for automating Debian-based pipelines.Working knowledge of containerization tools (Docker, Podman, or Kubernetes) for building reproducible Debian-based images.Understanding of secure system administration practices, including credential management and package verification.Strong problem-solving and debugging skills across multi-environment systems.Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create clear technical documentation.