Linux Infrastructure Engineer

Eqvilent is seeking a Linux Infrastructure Engineer to build and operate the compute infrastructure supporting large-scale market data processing and model training. The role focuses on deploying, maintaining, troubleshooting, tuning, and automating Linux server and cluster environments across multiple data centers.

Responsibilities:

• Deploying, configuring, and maintaining Linux-based bare-metal servers across our data centers
• Building and operating clustered environments, including virtualization, storage, GPU compute, and database clusters
• Troubleshooting complex Linux, hardware, networking, and cluster-level issues
• Performance tuning for throughput, latency, stability, and resource utilization
• Monitoring infrastructure health and performance, identifying bottlenecks, and preventing recurring issues
• Supporting the full server lifecycle: provisioning, setup, upgrades, and maintenance
• Improving reliability and predictability during failures, maintenance, and scaling
• Automating provisioning, configuration, and operational tasks, primarily using Ansible and scripting

Requirements:

• Strong hands-on Linux administration and troubleshooting experience
• Production experience with on-premise, bare-metal infrastructure
• Good understanding of Linux performance and bottleneck analysis
• infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting production issues
• server provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management
• infrastructure automation, ideally using Ansible
• Experience with hardware bring-up and lifecycle management: BMC/IPMI, firmware, BIOS tuning, and automated OS provisioning (PXE/netboot)
• Experience with virtualization clusters, including live migration and HA
• Experience with distributed storage clusters, including replication, rebalancing, and recovery from disk and node failures