Senior Infrastructure & Storage Engineer

We are looking for a highly experienced Senior Infrastructure & Storage Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Linux, on-premises infrastructure, distributed storage (Ceph/MinIO), and data-centre engineering. The ideal candidate should have a proven track record of designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and operationalizing mission-critical infrastructure environments.

Mandatory Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Linux Administration, or Storage Engineering roles.

• Strong hands-on experience managing production on-premises data-centre environments.

• Expert-level administration and troubleshooting of RHEL/CentOS/Linux operating systems.

• Extensive experience with Ceph Storage, including:

• OSDs, MONs, Placement Groups

• Cluster health monitoring

• Replication and failure domains

• Capacity planning and performance tuning

• Recovery from degraded cluster states

• Experience managing MinIO distributed object storage environments.

• Strong understanding of:

• Storage architecture

• Backup & recovery strategies

• Disaster recovery planning

• Data protection and high availability

• Experience with physical server infrastructure:

• Bare-metal servers

• Storage controllers/HBAs

• RAID and disks

• Firmware upgrades

• Hardware lifecycle management

• Experience supporting virtualized infrastructure environments.

• Strong troubleshooting and RCA (Root Cause Analysis) skills for complex production incidents.

Kubernetes & Platform Infrastructure

• Experience supporting bare-metal Kubernetes environments.

• Knowledge of:

• CSI Drivers

• Persistent Volumes (PV)

• Persistent Volume Claims (PVC)

• StorageClasses

• Ceph-backed Kubernetes storage

• Ability to troubleshoot issues across infrastructure, storage, operating system, and Kubernetes layers.

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Hands-on experience with:

• Ansible

• Terraform

• Bash Shell Scripting

• Python Automation

• Experience using Git-based workflows for infrastructure management.

• Ability to automate provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational tasks.

Monitoring & Observability

• Experience with:

• Prometheus

• Grafana

• Elasticsearch

• New Relic

• Strong knowledge of infrastructure monitoring, alerting, logging, capacity planning, and performance management.

Preferred/Good-to-Have Skills

• Rancher, RKE/RKE2 administration.
• MariaDB or PostgreSQL administration.
• Hybrid Azure infrastructure exposure.
• VMware or equivalent virtualization technologies.
• Windows Server administration (basic to intermediate).
• Multi-data-centre Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity exercises.