Senior Infrastructure Engineer Job Austin area,Texas USA,IT/Tech

Job Type: Contract Due to client restrictions
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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.
Proxmox VE:
Advanced

Role:
Senior Infrastructure Engineer Remote (US)
Job Type: Contract Due to client restrictions
- Require only Visa Independent candidates for this role Critical Skills

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.
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/Open Stack into Proxmox.
Understand backup/recovery architecture for Proxmox environments.
Automate VM provisioning and lifecycle management through APIs/IaC.
Open Stack:
Advanced

Critical Knowledge

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

Require Knowledge Of

ESXi
vCenter
VM lifecycle management
vMotion
HA/DRS
Data stores and storage integration
Virtual networking / distributed switching
Cluster maintenance
Resource contention
Troubleshooting VM performance
Migration/export/import concepts
Linux Systems Engineering:
Expert
RHEL / Rocky / Alma / Ubuntu
systemd
LVM
multipath
file systems
kernel troubleshooting
TCP/IP troubleshooting
performance analysis
Bash/Python scripting
Infrastructure as Code & Automation:
Advanced

I’d Explicitly Require

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