Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Overview

Senior Infrastructure Engineer role focused on operating systems, large-scale virtualization, Azure cloud, observability and automation, designing and operating complex, high-performance, highly available infrastructure platforms.

What you'll do

• Design, build and operate virtualization environments and remote DC using technologies such as VMware vCenter and Nutanix.
• Support and manage both on-prem and cloud-hosted virtualization platforms, ensuring high availability, performance and capacity alignment with business needs.
• Drive data centre and workload migrations using industry-standard tools and methodologies.
• Manage and optimize data storage, server resources and other virtual computing platforms.
• Engineer and optimize Azure and other public cloud infrastructure (Google / Azure) for scalability, performance, resilience and cost-efficiency.
• Design, enhance and support automation tools and pipelines (GitHub, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD) that drive consistency, repeatability and team efficiency.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and tools using Python, Bash, PowerShell and RESTful APIs for provisioning, configuration management and operational tasks.
• Apply Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps practices to standardize environments and reduce manual work.
• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting and observability solutions for infrastructure and platforms, leveraging open-source and commercial tools.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues across OS, virtualization, storage and network layers, with strong problem-solving and performance-tuning skills.
• Contribute to the design of resilient, scalable systems and components, including failure-mode analysis and capacity planning.
• Oversee the administration, maintenance and optimization of Linux and Windows operating systems in cloud and virtualized environments.
• Collaborate closely with development and operations teams to integrate applications with underlying infrastructure, optimizing for performance, reliability and operability.
• Apply software engineering best practices, including version control, code review and test-driven approaches, to infrastructure and automation code.
• Lead cross-functional engagements with development, operations and business teams to drive infrastructure-related initiatives and modernisation programs.
• Provide technical leadership, guidance and mentorship to team members, including offshore teams.
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and engineering excellence.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of engineering experience at scale, with a strong focus on infrastructure and virtualization.
• Deep knowledge of operating systems (Linux/Windows), virtualization platforms (VMware, Nutanix), data storage, server infrastructure and networking fundamentals.
• Strong experience with large-scale virtualization platforms, including VMware vCenter and Nutanix.
• Strong experience in supporting and managing both on-prem and cloud-based virtualization platforms.
• Demonstrated experience in data centre migrations and workload/data migration tools.
• Proficiency in scripting and/or coding (Python, Bash, PowerShell) and experience in programming and automation.
• Knowledge of RESTful API design patterns and integration.
• Practical Linux and Windows system administration skills in cloud or virtualized environments.
• Experience working with public (Google / Azure) and private cloud environments.
• Knowledge of programming languages, operating system principles, networking and software development best practices.
• Experience designing systems or components on complex projects.
• Experience working with offshore and distributed teams.
• Experience with Test-Driven Development (TDD) or similar quality-focused engineering approaches.
• Excellent communication skills, solid work ethic and a strong desire to write production-quality code.
• Passionate about learning new tools, languages, philosophies and workflows.

Nice to have

• Certifications in VMWare, Hybrid Cloud, Nutanix or Kubernetes.
• Experience with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, APM solutions) and alerting/monitoring platforms.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Familiarity with AIOps concepts and tooling.
• Knowledge of security best practices, compliance standards and their application to infrastructure and cloud platforms.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.