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