Description:

Seeking a Senior Ceph/Rook-Ceph + Kubernetes Storage Engineer for a long-term project.
Focus 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, high availability).
Experience in building, operating, upgrading, and troubleshooting production Ceph clusters.
Hands-on Rook-Ceph experience in Kubernetes, preferably in business-critical environments.
Strong Kubernetes knowledge, including CSI/storage integration.
Linux administration and troubleshooting at OS/hardware level.
Automation experience with Ansible.
Familiarity with Kubernetes tooling such as Helm.
Monitoring/observability experience with Prometheus and Grafana.
Experience in 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 skills include OpenStack experience, especially Ceph integration with Cinder, Glance, Nova, and RBD.
Experience with petabyte-scale Ceph environments, bare-metal infrastructure, and large production Rook-Ceph clusters.
Knowledge of CephFS and RGW/S3.
Customer-facing troubleshooting/support experience.

Skills