We’re currently looking for a Senior Ceph/Rook-Ceph + Kubernetes Storage Engineer to join a long-term project. The role focuses on production Ceph environments, Kubernetes storage, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
Requirements
- 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure or storage engineering
- Deep hands-on production Ceph experience: OSD, MON, MGR, PGs, recovery, backfill, capacity planning, performance tuning, scaling and high availability
- Experience building, operating, upgrading and troubleshooting production Ceph clusters
- Hands-on Rook-Ceph in Kubernetes, preferably business-critical production environments
- Strong Kubernetes knowledge, including CSI/storage integration
- Linux administration and troubleshooting at OS/hardware level
- Automation experience with Ansible
- Kubernetes tooling such as Helm
- Monitoring/observability with Prometheus and Grafana
- Experience investigating storage performance, latency, disk failures, network bottlenecks and recovery issues
- Strong understanding of failure domains, CRUSH topology, replication and storage architecture
- Good English communication skills
Highly valuable but not mandatory:
- OpenStack experience, especially Ceph integration with Cinder, Glance, Nova and RBD
- Petabyte-scale Ceph environments
- Bare-metal infrastructure
- Large production Rook-Ceph clusters
- CephFS and RGW/S3 experience
- Customer-facing troubleshooting/support experience
