Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer (Bare metal & storage)

Job Overview : We are looking for a highly experienced Linux Infrastructure Engineer with deep expertise in traditional Linux administration, bare metal infrastructure, and enterprise storage. This role is not focused on DevOps or cloud-native engineering. We already have a strong DevOps team and are looking for someone with extensive hands-on experience designing, building, administering, and troubleshooting large-scale Linux infrastructure. Key Responsibility & Required Skills • Expert-level Linux administration (Ubuntu required; Red Hat and SUSE preferred) • Deep expertise in bare metal server deployment, architecture, and administration • Strong understanding of server hardware, including BIOS, RAID, firmware, iLO/iDRAC/IPMI, NICs, HBA cards, and hardware troubleshooting • Experience designing and administering enterprise Linux infrastructure • Advanced Linux storage administration: • LVM • XFS, EXT4 • NFS • iSCSI • Fibre Channel SAN • Multipath I/O • Strong hands-on experience with Ceph , including: • Cluster architecture • MON, OSD, MDS • RBD, CephFS, RGW • Capacity planning • Performance tuning • Failure recovery • Strong networking knowledge (bonding, VLANs, routing, MTU, DNS, DHCP) • Experience with high availability, clustering, and disaster recovery • Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux OS, hardware, networking, and storage • Bash and Python scripting for automation Nice to Have • Kubernetes infrastructure (especially storage integration) • VMware or KVM • Ansible • AWS/Azure exposure We are not looking for • Candidates whose experience is primarily CI/CD pipeline engineering • Engineers focused mainly on Terraform, GitOps, or container platforms • Cloud-only administrators with limited bare metal or infrastructure experience Ideal candidate: Someone who has spent years running enterprise Linux environments, building servers from the hardware up, architecting storage platforms, and solving complex OS, hardware, and storage issues. DevOps experience is a plus, but traditional Linux infrastructure expertise is the primary requirement.