Senior Infrastructure Engineer

As part of our continued growth, Neo Group is recruiting on behalf of one of our local partners, leveraging our network of 1,400 talented professionals across 10+ countries. Together, we are committed to delivering innovative, data-driven solutions that empower our clients and foster professional growth within a dynamic and collaborative workplace.

We are on the lookout for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Engineering Team.

Key Responsibilities

• Linux System Administration: Operate and maintain Linux infrastructure based on Debian and Rocky Linux.
• Virtualization & Cluster Management: Operate and maintain Proxmox VE clusters and virtual machines.
• Virtual Machine Lifecycle: Manage the full lifecycle of virtual machines, including provisioning, migration, upgrade, and decommissioning.
• System Updates & Upgrades: Plan and perform Linux and Proxmox updates/upgrades, including major version upgrades.
• Production Maintenance Planning: Plan and execute infrastructure maintenance activities in production environments.
• Data Protection & Disaster Recovery: Manage VM/server backup and restore processes and validate recovery procedures.
• Infrastructure Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot infrastructure issues across compute, storage, operating systems, and networking.
• Automation & Scripting: Automate repetitive operational tasks using Ansible and scripting.
• Infrastructure Migrations: Participate in infrastructure migrations and production changes.
• 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.
• Strong knowledge of Debian / Rocky Linux.
• Hands-on production experience with Proxmox VE, KVM/QEMU and Proxmox clusters.
• Good understanding of cluster concepts including quorum, Corosync and failure scenarios.
• Strong practical experience with ZFS, including pools, datasets, snapshots, replication, disk replacement and failure recovery.
• Experience with VM migration and live migration.
• Experience performing Linux and Proxmox updates/upgrades.
• Strong Linux administration knowledge including systemd, package management, boot process, filesystems, LVM, RAID, mounts, permissions, SSH and sudo.
• Good understanding of Linux networking: TCP/IP, routing, VLANs, bonding, DNS, MTU and firewall basics.
• Hands-on experience with backup and restore, including recovery after VM or server failures.
• Understanding of backup, snapshot and replication concepts.
• Experience with Proxmox Backup Server or similar solutions.
• Practical experience with Ansible, Bash and Git.

• 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.
• Python.
• Monitoring systems such as Zabbix, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics or Grafana.
• Experience with physical servers and data center hardware.
• Hardware RAID / HBA.
• IPMI / iDRAC / iLO.
• Experience participating in disaster recovery or infrastructure migration projects.

Soft Skills

• Strong ownership and responsibility.
• Careful approach to production changes.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues independently.
• Good documentation and communication skills.
• Focus on automation, reliability and operational simplicity.

Benefits

• Remote work opportunity.
• Flexible working schedule.
• Interesting product.
• Learning opportunities.
• Career growth prospects.