Technology

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Info Dinamica IncAK🇺🇸United StatesPosted Oct 15, 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority

Mid Senior

Work mode

Hybrid

Location

AK, United States

Posted

5 days ago

OpenStackTCP/IPAnsibleBashDNSGitProxmoxPythonRESTTerraformVMware

Job Description

Role: Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Remote (US)

Job Type: Contract

Critical Skills:

1. Ceph Storage Engineering: Expert / Advanced

Design, deploy, operate, troubleshoot, and scale Ceph clusters.
Strong understanding of:
- MON, MGR, OSD, MDS
- RBD
- CephFS
- RGW / object storage
- CRUSH maps and failure domains
- Pools, placement groups, replication and erasure coding
Diagnose:
- degraded/undersized PGs
- slow OSDs
- recovery/backfill problems
- capacity imbalance
- latency and throughput bottlenecks
Understand storage networking, disk/SSD/NVMe characteristics, failure scenarios and performance tuning.
Ability to design Ceph for large production virtualization workloads, rather than simply administer an existing cluster.

2. Proxmox VE: Advanced

Candidate should be able to:

Design and administer multi-node Proxmox VE clusters.
Deploy and manage KVM virtual machines.
Understand Proxmox clustering and quorum.
Integrate Proxmox with Ceph-backed storage.
Configure Linux bridges, VLANs, bonding, and storage/network separation.
Troubleshoot cluster, compute, storage, and VM problems.
Plan node maintenance and workload evacuation.
Design HA and failure-domain strategies.
Perform or plan migrations from VMware/OpenStack into Proxmox.
Understand backup/recovery architecture for Proxmox environments.
Automate VM provisioning and lifecycle management through APIs/IaC.

3. OpenStack: Advanced

Critical knowledge:

Nova
Neutron
Cinder
Glance
Keystone
Horizon
Placement
OpenStack/Ceph integration
Compute-node lifecycle
Networking concepts and troubleshooting
Instance and image lifecycle
Upgrade planning and execution
Troubleshooting control-plane and compute services

4. VMware vSphere: Advanced

Require knowledge of:

ESXi
vCenter
VM lifecycle management
vMotion
HA/DRS
Datastores and storage integration
Virtual networking / distributed switching
Cluster maintenance
Resource contention
Troubleshooting VM performance
Migration/export/import concepts

5. Linux Systems Engineering: Expert

RHEL / Rocky / Alma / Ubuntu
systemd
LVM
multipath
filesystems
kernel troubleshooting
package/repository management
TCP/IP troubleshooting
performance analysis
Bash/Python scripting

6. Infrastructure as Code & Automation: Advanced

I'd explicitly require:

Ansible
Terraform
Git
CI/CD
REST APIs
Python and/or Bash

7. Infrastructure Networking: Advanced

Require solid knowledge of:

TCP/IP
VLANs / 802.1Q
LACP/bonding
MTU/jumbo frames
routing
DNS
DHCP
Linux bridges
virtual networking
storage networking
firewall/security zones
redundant network design

8. Bare-Metal / Data Center Infrastructure: Advanced

Server hardware lifecycle
Firmware / BIOS
RAID/HBA concepts
SSD/NVMe/SAS
NIC configuration
Out-of-band management
Rack/power/network dependencies
Hardware failure diagnosis
Capacity planning

9. Resilience, Backup & Disaster Recovery

The engineer should understand:

HA versus DR
RPO/RTO
VM backup architecture
Ceph failure domains
node/rack/site failure scenarios
restore testing
capacity headroom during failures
maintenance without service interruption

Critical Technical Skills:

Advanced hands-on experience designing, deploying, operating, troubleshooting, and scaling Ceph distributed storage environments supporting production virtualized workloads.
Advanced experience with Proxmox VE, including clustered virtualization, high availability, Ceph integration, networking, storage, lifecycle management, backup/recovery, and automation.
Advanced experience administering and troubleshooting OpenStack, including Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, compute infrastructure, networking, and Ceph integration.
Advanced experience with VMware vSphere, including ESXi, vCenter, HA/DRS, virtual networking, storage, lifecycle management, troubleshooting, and workload migration.
Expert-level Linux engineering skills with Red Hat-derived and Ubuntu distributions in large production environments.
Strong infrastructure-as-code and automation experience using Ansible, Terraform, Git, Python and/or Bash.
Strong infrastructure networking knowledge including TCP/IP, VLANs, routing, bonding/LACP, MTU, DNS, firewalls, virtual networking, and high-performance storage networks.
Experience designing and supporting bare-metal server infrastructure, including compute, storage, network interfaces, firmware, hardware lifecycle, and data-center deployment.
Demonstrated ability to perform large-scale virtualization and storage migrations, including discovery, capacity planning, dependency analysis, migration testing, rollback planning, and post-migration validation.
Strong understanding of high availability, backup/recovery, disaster recovery, capacity management, monitoring, performance tuning, security, and platform lifecycle management.