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. Originally posted on Himalayas