An IT infrastructure team at Infopark in Kakkanad, Kochi, has an opening for an Associate IT Infrastructure Engineer. It's full-time and on-site, aimed at someone early in their infrastructure career who's ready to own real systems rather than just watch someone else run them.
Expect to spend your days on the servers, switches, and virtual machines that keep everything else running, not on writing application code. That's the split candidates should understand going in: this role sits on the infrastructure side of IT, and the skill set reflects it.
- Networking, including basic configuration and diagnosis of connectivity issues
- Server administration across the environments the team maintains
- Virtualization, working with virtual machines and the hosts they run on
- Troubleshooting, since a fair share of the job is figuring out why something stopped working
On a normal week, this looks like setting up and configuring servers and network equipment as the environment grows, coordinating with the wider IT and support teams on changes that touch shared systems, checking that new configurations hold up against the team's standards before they go live, and fixing whatever users flag when something breaks. Some weeks lean heavily on setup work; others are almost entirely reactive firefighting, and an associate should be comfortable moving between the two with little warning.
None of the following are required to apply, but they'll make you a stronger candidate and probably shorten your first few months on the job. Hands-on exposure to a cloud platform such as AWS or Azure helps, since more infrastructure work is shifting there even for teams that still run plenty on-premises. Basic scripting ability in PowerShell or Bash goes a long way toward turning repetitive manual tasks into something you run once and forget. Familiarity with monitoring tools and prior exposure to ITIL-style change and incident processes round things out nicely for anyone who's already had a bit of experience in a formal IT operations environment.
The employer is looking for candidates with around 21 months of relevant experience and a bachelor's degree, whether in computer science or a broader engineering discipline where the coursework covered networks and systems. What they seem to care about more than the exact degree title is whether you can walk into a live environment and not break it in your first week.
Compensation runs to roughly ₹62,500 per month for this associate-level position, which aligns reasonably well with other IT infrastructure engineer jobs in Kochi in a similar experience band, especially once relocation and accommodation support are factored in. The role is listed on Naukri Mitra as on-site, so working from the Infopark office in Kakkanad is part of the deal, not an option.
Benefits attached to the role go beyond the basics. Health insurance is included, along with paid time off and provident fund contributions handled the standard way for a full-time employee in Kerala. Because this is an on-site position and Infopark draws talent from across the state, the company also offers relocation assistance and accommodation support for candidates moving in from outside Kochi.
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Provident fund contributions
- Relocation assistance for candidates moving to Kochi
- Accommodation support during the transition
Kakkanad has grown into one of the busier IT corridors in Kochi over the past several years, and Infopark itself hosts enough companies that an " IT infrastructure engineer jobs near me search from most parts of the city will turn up multiple listings clustered in the same few kilometers. That density matters less for this specific role than the fact that the office itself keeps a fairly standard on-site infrastructure team, small enough that an associate isn't buried three layers down from anyone who actually makes decisions.
If you're weighing this against other openings, one thing worth knowing: candidates who've worked support desks or done informal sysadmin work without a fully polished resume shouldn't count themselves out. The hiring manager is reportedly more interested in whether you can explain what you actually did when a server went down than in how the experience is labeled on paper.
Those who meet the education and experience requirements above and bring at least the core skill set, even without the extras, can apply directly through the listing. Given the relocation support on offer, this is a reasonable option even for candidates currently based outside Kerala who are specifically targeting IT infrastructure engineer job openings in Kochi rather than staying local.
