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