Senior Infrastructure & Storage Engineer

Coforge; Gurugram District, Greater Noida; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Coforge is seeking a Senior Infrastructure & Storage Engineer with deep hands-on Linux and on-prem infrastructure experience. You will manage Ceph and MinIO storage, bare-metal servers, and kubernetes-backed storage, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery.

The role emphasizes automation, IaC, and strong fault analysis across storage, OS, and cluster layers. Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in infra/storage, proficiency with RHEL/CentOS, Ceph, and MinIO, plus Terraform, Ansible, and

Qualifications

• 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, health monitoring, replication and failure domains, capacity planning and performance tuning, and recovery from degraded clusters.
• Experience managing MinIO distributed object storage environments.
• Strong understanding of storage architecture, backup & recovery, disaster recovery planning, and data protection.
• Experience with physical server infrastructure: bare-metal servers, HBAs, RAID, firmware upgrades, hardware lifecycle management.
• Experience supporting virtualized infrastructure.
• Strong RCA skills for complex production incidents.

Responsibilities

• Will design, implement, troubleshoot, and operate mission-critical infra environments.
• Provide end-to-end storage and compute provisioning for on-prem environments.
• Monitor and optimize Ceph and MinIO storage clusters and integration with Kubernetes.

Skills

Linux

On-premises infra

Distributed storage

Data-centre engineering

RHEL/CentOS

Storage administration

Troubleshooting

Kubernetes

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Bash scripting

Python automation

Git workflows

Prometheus

Grafana

Elasticsearch

New Relic

Ceph

Kubernetes tooling (CSI, PV, PVC)

VMware

Job description

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/Good-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.