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.