Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Mindtech is on the lookout for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Engineering Team .

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Linux System Administration: Operate and maintain Linux infrastructure based on Debian and Rocky Linux.

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Virtualization & Cluster Management: Operate and maintain Proxmox VE clusters and virtual machines.

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Virtual Machine Lifecycle: Manage the full lifecycle of virtual machines, including provisioning, migration, upgrade, and decommissioning.

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System Updates & Upgrades: Plan and perform Linux and Proxmox updates/upgrades, including major version upgrades.

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Production Maintenance Planning: Plan and execute infrastructure maintenance activities in production environments.

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Data Protection & Disaster Recovery: Manage VM/server backup and restore processes and validate recovery procedures.

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Infrastructure Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot infrastructure issues across compute, storage, operating systems, and networking.

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Automation & Scripting: Automate repetitive operational tasks using Ansible and scripting.

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Infrastructure Migrations: Participate in infrastructure migrations and production changes.

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Change Management & Risk Mitigation: Prepare change plans, validation steps, and rollback procedures for high-risk infrastructure changes.

Requirements: -

5+ years of hands-on experience with Linux infrastructure.

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Strong knowledge of Debian / Rocky Linux .

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Hands-on production experience with Proxmox VE, KVM/QEMU and Proxmox clusters .

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Good understanding of cluster concepts including quorum, Corosync and failure scenarios .

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Strong practical experience with ZFS , including pools, datasets, snapshots, replication, disk replacement and failure recovery.

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Experience with VM migration and live migration.

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Experience performing Linux and Proxmox updates/upgrades.

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Strong Linux administration knowledge including systemd, package management, boot process, filesystems, LVM, RAID, mounts, permissions, SSH and sudo.

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Good understanding of Linux networking: TCP/IP, routing, VLANs, bonding, DNS, MTU and firewall basics.

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Hands-on experience with backup and restore, including recovery after VM or server failures.

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Understanding of backup, snapshot and replication concepts.

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Experience with Proxmox Backup Server or similar solutions.

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Practical experience with Ansible , Bash and Git.

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Strong troubleshooting skills for CPU, memory, disk I/O, filesystem and network issues.

Nice to Have: -

Experience with shared or distributed storage systems , such as Ceph, SAN, iSCSI, NFS or similar solutions.

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Python.

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Monitoring systems such as Zabbix, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics or Grafana.

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Experience with physical servers and data center hardware.

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Hardware RAID / HBA.

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IPMI / iDRAC / iLO.

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Experience participating in disaster recovery or infrastructure migration projects.

Soft Skills:

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Strong ownership and responsibility.

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Careful approach to production changes.

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Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues independently.

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Good documentation and communication skills.

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Focus on automation, reliability and operational simplicity.

This position is planned to be created (promising).