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Senior Infrastructure & Storage Engineer

Coforge

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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

  • 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.

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