About the role
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
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8+ years of experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Linux Administration, or Storage Engineering roles.
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Strong hands-on experience managing production on-premises data-centre environments.
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Expert-level administration and troubleshooting of RHEL/CentOS/Linux operating systems.
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Extensive experience with Ceph Storage, including:
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OSDs, MONs, Placement Groups
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Cluster health monitoring
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Replication and failure domains
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Capacity planning and performance tuning
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Recovery from degraded cluster states
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Experience managing MinIO distributed object storage environments.
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Strong understanding of:
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Storage architecture
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Backup & recovery strategies
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Disaster recovery planning
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Data protection and high availability
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Experience with physical server infrastructure:
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Bare-metal servers
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Storage controllers/HBAs
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RAID and disks
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Firmware upgrades
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Hardware lifecycle management
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Experience supporting virtualized infrastructure environments.
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Strong troubleshooting and RCA (Root Cause Analysis) skills for complex production incidents.
Kubernetes & Platform Infrastructure
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Experience supporting bare-metal Kubernetes environments.
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Knowledge of:
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CSI Drivers
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Persistent Volumes (PV)
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Persistent Volume Claims (PVC)
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StorageClasses
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Ceph-backed Kubernetes storage
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Ability to troubleshoot issues across infrastructure, storage, operating system, and Kubernetes layers.
Automation & Infrastructure as Code
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Hands-on experience with:
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Ansible
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Terraform
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Bash Shell Scripting
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Python Automation
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Experience using Git-based workflows for infrastructure management.
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Ability to automate provisioning, configuration, monitoring, and operational tasks.
Monitoring & Observability
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Experience with:
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Prometheus
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Grafana
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Elasticsearch
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New Relic
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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.
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