Senior Linux Infrastructure Engineer (Bare metal & storage)

Uvation; Malaysia; On-site; MYR 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Uvation in Malaysia is seeking a highly experienced Linux Infrastructure Engineer responsible for managing large-scale Linux infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Linux administration, bare metal server deployment, and enterprise storage.

This role emphasizes troubleshooting and hardware management, excluding DevOps and cloud-centric engineering. A strong background in Ceph and advanced networking skills will be essential.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in traditional Linux administration, bare metal infrastructure, and enterprise storage.
• Experience designing and administering enterprise Linux infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on experience with Ceph and advanced Linux storage administration.

Responsibilities

• Administer large-scale Linux infrastructure.
• Deploy servers and manage RAID, BIOS, and hardware troubleshooting.
• Ensure high availability and disaster recovery setups.

Skills

Expert-level Linux administration

Bare metal server deployment

Linux storage administration

Strong networking knowledge

Troubleshooting across Linux OS

Tools

Ceph

Bash

Python

Job description

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 Responsibilities & 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.