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