Ceph Storage Engineer (English)

About VEXXHOST

VEXXHOST is a leading provider of cloud infrastructure solutions, offering four core services: OpenStack, Kubernetes, Zuul, and MigrateKit. We're committed to delivering high-performance, reliable, and secure cloud services to businesses worldwide. Our team is passionate about open-source technology and building cutting-edge infrastructure solutions.
Position Overview

We are looking for a Ceph Storage Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and optimize large-scale distributed storage clusters that power our global cloud platform. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience with Ceph, a strong understanding of distributed systems, and a passion for building reliable and scalable infrastructure. You will play a key role in shaping the performance, resiliency, and growth of our storage services.
Responsibilities

- Design, deploy, and maintain Ceph clusters that support large-scale production environments

- Monitor and optimize cluster performance, capacity, and reliability

- Implement best practices for data durability, replication, and recovery

- Troubleshoot storage issues at scale

- Manage lifecycle operations including upgrades, expansions, and migrations

- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate Ceph with OpenStack and Kubernetes platforms

- Automate operational workflows to ensure efficient and repeatable processes

- Participate in on-call rotations to support critical production systems

- Work directly with clients to fix their technical problems

- Contribute to documentation

Qualifications

- Strong hands-on experience operating Ceph in production environments

- Solid understanding of distributed storage concepts and architecture

- Proficiency with Linux systems administration and networking fundamentals

- Experience with OpenStack Cinder, Glance, or Nova storage backends is a strong plus

- Familiarity with Kubernetes persistent storage concepts is an asset

- Scripting experience with Python, Go, etc

- Knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK stack

- Ability to diagnose performance bottlenecks and conduct root cause analysis

- Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills

Nice to Have

- Contributions to Ceph or other open-source projects

- Experience with automation tools such as Ansible or Terraform

- Background in large-scale cloud infrastructure environments

- Understanding of object storage protocols such as S3 or Swift

What We Offer

- Remote-first work environment

- Professional development opportunities and conference attendance

- Access to cutting-edge technology and infrastructure

- Collaborative and inclusive team culture

- Opportunity to work with open-source technologies

- Be part of the foundation of a growing company

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