Platform Engineer (Ceph Storage)
First seen by Alion on Oct 5, 2026.
Our client, one of Asia-Pacific’s leading organizations is looking for:
Platform Engineer (Ceph Storage)
We are looking for a hands-on storage engineer to operate and maintain the Ceph-based storage services supporting our on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift platform. The role focuses on operating and improving production storage services, including monitoring, maintenance, upgrades, capacity management, hardware replacement, performance troubleshooting, and failure recovery. We are not developing a new distributed-storage solution. Candidates with experience developing or operating distributed-storage platforms are encouraged to apply.You will work closely with the Kubernetes platform, network, infrastructure, and application teams to keep storage services reliable and supportable.
Responsibilities:
- Operate and maintain Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation environments.
- Monitor cluster health, capacity, latency, throughput, placement groups, and device status.
- Manage OSD and node replacement, recovery, rebalancing, backfill, scrubbing, and routine maintenance.
- Diagnose degraded placement groups, slow operations, quorum issues, device failures, and network-related storage problems.
- Plan and perform Ceph/ODF upgrades, expansion, patching, and configuration changes.
- Support block and shared-file storage through ODF, Ceph CSI, RBD, and CephFS.
- Troubleshoot persistent-volume provisioning, attachment, mounting, expansion, and performance issues.
- Maintain dashboards, alerts, runbooks, capacity plans, and recovery procedures.
- Test recovery from disk, node, service, and network failures.
- Coordinate server, disk, firmware, and network maintenance with infrastructure teams.
- Participate in production incident response and root-cause analysis.
Requirements:
- Hands-on experience with Ceph
- Experience with storage monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades, expansion, and component replacement.
- Experience benchmarking storage workloads and analysing performance bottlenecks.
- Ability to diagnose storage issues across software, Linux, networks, and physical hardware.
- Knowledge of HDD, SSD, NVMe, HBA, firmware, and storage-network considerations.
- Automation experience using Ansible, Python, shell, or similar tools.
- Backup, snapshots, replication, and disaster-recovery operations.
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Interested applicants can also email CV at [email protected] (for faster processing, please state the exact job / position title applied “Platform Engineer (Ceph Storage)"
Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.
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EA License Number: 10C3636
EA Personnel Name: Jagveer Singh Arora
EA Personnel Registration Number: R22109615
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Skills
Preventive Maintenance, maintenance upgrades, Openshift, Backup, Business Expansion, Storage Management, Monitoring, Replication, Troubleshoot system failures, Low Latency, Python, Firmware, Distributed File Systems, Capacity Planning, Ansible, Linux