Senior Infrastructure & Storage Engineer

Job description

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.