Platform Engineer (Ceph Storage Specialist)

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.