Senior Ceph/Rook-Ceph + Kubernetes Storage Engineer

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

Originally posted on Himalayas