Job Description & Requirements
We are seeking a hands-on Platform Engineer specializing in
Ceph storage
to operate and maintain production storage services supporting on-premises
Kubernetes and OpenShift
environments.
Key Responsibilities
Operate and maintain
Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)
storage environments.
Monitor cluster health, capacity, latency, throughput, placement groups and device status.
Manage
OSD/node replacement, recovery, rebalancing, backfill and scrubbing
activities.
Troubleshoot degraded PGs, slow operations, quorum issues, device failures and storage-network problems.
Perform Ceph/ODF upgrades, expansion, patching and configuration changes.
Support
RBD, CephFS, Ceph CSI and persistent volumes
in Kubernetes/OpenShift.
Troubleshoot PV provisioning, attachment, mounting, expansion and performance issues.
Maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, runbooks, capacity plans and recovery procedures.
Perform recovery testing for disk, node, service and network failures.
Coordinate server, disk, firmware and network maintenance with infrastructure teams.
Participate in production incidents, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.
Requirements
Hands-on experience operating
Ceph in production
.
Experience with storage monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades, expansion and hardware/component replacement.
Strong troubleshooting skills across
Ceph, Linux, Kubernetes/OpenShift, networking and physical infrastructure
.
Experience analysing storage performance and benchmarking workloads.
Knowledge of
HDD, SSD, NVMe, HBA, firmware and storage networking
.
Experience with
Ansible, Python, Shell scripting or similar automation tools
.
Knowledge of backup, snapshots, replication and disaster-recovery operations.
Experience with
Kubernetes/OpenShift storage, CSI, RBD or CephFS
is highly preferred.
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