DevOps/SRE Engineer

The role involves designing, implementing, operating, and improving enterprise-scale Ceph storage platforms supporting business and research workloads across hybrid and cloud-native environments. The engineer will also work with technologies including Kubernetes, HashiCorp Vault, Weka, and Qumulo.

• Minimum 2 years' experience with hands-on design, deployment, administration, and support of Ceph storage clusters
• Experience operationalizing Ceph including lifecycle management, upgrades, expansion, health monitoring, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Experience automating Ceph operations using Ansible, Terraform, Python, Bash, or similar automation frameworks
• Strong understanding of distributed storage concepts including replication, erasure coding, CRUSH maps, OSDs, MONs, MGRs, CephFS, RBD, and RGW
• Experience integrating Ceph with Kubernetes or cloud-native platforms
• Experience with Linux platform administration
• Knowledge of networking concepts supporting distributed storage platforms
• Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles
• Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or Ansible
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation
• Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, and ELK Stack
• Experience with incident management and root cause analysis
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or similar

Nice to have:

• Experience with other HPC storage platforms
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
• Experience operating storage platforms supporting AI/ML, HPC, or large-scale Kubernetes environments

• Design, deploy, administer, and support Ceph storage clusters in production environments
• Operationalize Ceph including lifecycle management, upgrades, expansion, health monitoring, capacity planning, troubleshooting, and performance tuning
• Automate Ceph operations using Ansible, Terraform, Python, Bash, or similar frameworks
• Build operational tooling, runbooks, and self-service capabilities to improve platform efficiency and reliability
• Integrate Ceph with Kubernetes or cloud-native platforms
• Improve platform reliability through automation, observability, proactive monitoring, incident response, capacity planning, and continuous improvement
• Work with complementary storage technologies such as Weka and Qumulo, HashiCorp Vault, and modern infrastructure platforms