Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer – Bare Metal, Storage

Jobtailor; Deutschland; Vor Ort; EUR 90.000 - 120.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Jobtailor is seeking an expert Linux systems engineer in Germany to design, deploy, and maintain a large-scale Linux infrastructure with a strong focus on bare metal deployment. The role emphasizes Ubuntu as the primary distro and requires cross-team collaboration for reliable operations.

Responsibilities include managing Ceph-based storage, advanced LVM/XFS/NFS/iSCSI, high availability, disaster recovery, and automation via Bash and Python. VMware/KVM and Ansible experience are advantageous.

Qualifikationen

• 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: 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

Aufgaben

• Demonstrate expert-level Linux administration across Ubuntu and bare metal infrastructure
• Design, build, administer, and troubleshoot large-scale Linux infrastructure
• Collaborate with other teams as necessary for infrastructure management

Kenntnisse

Linux administration

Bare metal infrastructure

Networking

Scripting (Bash, Python)

Troubleshooting

Disaster recovery planning

Capacity planning

Performance tuning

Tools

Ubuntu

Red Hat

SUSE

Ceph

LVM

XFS

EXT4

NFS

iSCSI

Fibre Channel SAN

Multipath I/O

VMware

KVM

Ansible

Kubernetes (storage integration)

Terraform

GitOps

AWS

Azure

Jobbeschreibung

• Work with deep expertise in traditional Linux administration, bare metal infrastructure, and enterprise storage
• Design, build, administer, and troubleshoot large-scale Linux infrastructure
• Collaborate with other teams as necessary for infrastructure management

Requirements

• 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

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expert‑level Linux administration, particularly with Ubuntu, and extensive experience in bare metal infrastructure design and management. Proficient in advanced Linux storage administration and troubleshooting across various systems and hardware components.