Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer (Bare metal & storage)
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer (Bare metal & storage) based in the United States.
This is a senior hands-on infrastructure engineering role focused on building, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale Linux environments from the ground up. The position centers on bare metal systems, enterprise storage, and traditional Linux administration rather than cloud-native or DevOps-centric workflows. You will work deeply with server hardware, storage architectures, and networked infrastructure, ensuring stability, performance, and resilience across mission-critical systems. The role requires strong expertise in designing and maintaining complex Linux environments that span physical servers, SAN/NAS storage, and distributed storage platforms such as Ceph. You will be responsible for diagnosing and resolving issues across the full stack—from hardware components to filesystem and network layers. This is a highly technical, deeply operational role suited for engineers who thrive in environments where they can directly control and optimize infrastructure. You will play a key role in ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across enterprise-grade systems.
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer (Bare metal & storage) based in the United States.
This is a senior hands-on infrastructure engineering role focused on building, operating, and troubleshooting large-scale Linux environments from the ground up. The position centers on bare metal systems, enterprise storage, and traditional Linux administration rather than cloud-native or DevOps-centric workflows. You will work deeply with server hardware, storage architectures, and networked infrastructure, ensuring stability, performance, and resilience across mission-critical systems. The role requires strong expertise in designing and maintaining complex Linux environments that span physical servers, SAN/NAS storage, and distributed storage platforms such as Ceph. You will be responsible for diagnosing and resolving issues across the full stack—from hardware components to filesystem and network layers. This is a highly technical, deeply operational role suited for engineers who thrive in environments where they can directly control and optimize infrastructure. You will play a key role in ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance across enterprise-grade systems.
Accountabilities:
- Design, deploy, administer, and maintain large-scale Linux infrastructure environments with a strong focus on bare metal systems and enterprise-grade reliability.
- Manage and troubleshoot server hardware components including BIOS, RAID, firmware, iLO/iDRAC/IPMI, NICs, and HBA configurations.
- Administer advanced Linux storage systems, including LVM, XFS, EXT4, NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel SAN, and multipath I/O configurations.
- Architect, operate, and optimize Ceph storage clusters, including MON, OSD, MDS roles, RBD, CephFS, RGW, capacity planning, performance tuning, and recovery processes.
- Ensure high availability, clustering, backup, and disaster recovery strategies across Linux-based infrastructure environments.
- Diagnose and resolve complex issues spanning operating systems, storage systems, networking, and physical hardware layers.
- Develop automation scripts using Bash and Python to improve operational efficiency and infrastructure reliability.
- Extensive hands-on experience as a Linux Infrastructure Engineer or Systems Administrator in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Expert-level Linux administration skills, with strong experience in Ubuntu and preferably Red Hat or SUSE.
- Deep experience working with bare metal infrastructure, including server provisioning, hardware troubleshooting, and system architecture.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise storage systems including LVM, NFS, iSCSI, Fibre Channel SAN, and multipath I/O.
- Proven hands-on expertise with Ceph, including cluster architecture, performance tuning, and failure recovery.
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals such as VLANs, bonding, routing, MTU, DNS, and DHCP.
- Experience with high availability systems, clustering technologies, and disaster recovery planning.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across Linux OS, hardware, storage, and network layers.
- Proficiency in Bash and Python scripting for automation and system management.
- Preferred: exposure to Kubernetes storage integration, VMware or KVM virtualization, Ansible, or public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure).
- Clear experience focused on traditional infrastructure engineering (not primarily DevOps, CI/CD, or cloud-only roles).
- Competitive salary aligned with senior-level infrastructure engineering expertise.
- Comprehensive healthcare coverage including medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Paid time off, holidays, and flexible work arrangements where applicable.
- Opportunity to work on large-scale, mission-critical infrastructure environments.
- Exposure to complex storage, hardware, and Linux systems at enterprise scale.
- Professional growth in a highly technical, hands-on engineering environment.
- Stable, long-term role focused on deep infrastructure ownership rather than toolchain churn.