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/Positive-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.

📌 Senior Infrastructure & Storage Engineer (Gurugram)
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