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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. \n\nResponsibilities:\nOperate and maintain Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation environments.\nMonitor cluster health, capacity, latency, throughput, placement groups, and device status.\nManage OSD and node replacement, recovery, rebalancing, backfill, scrubbing, and routine maintenance.\nDiagnose degraded placement groups, slow operations, quorum issues, device failures, and network-related storage problems.\nPlan and perform Ceph/ODF upgrades, expansion, patching, and configuration changes.\nSupport block and shared-file storage through ODF, Ceph CSI, RBD, and CephFS.\nTroubleshoot persistent-volume provisioning, attachment, mounting, expansion, and performance issues.\nMaintain dashboards, alerts, runbooks, capacity plans, and recovery procedures.\nTest recovery from disk, node, service, and network failures.\nCoordinate server, disk, firmware, and network maintenance with infrastructure teams.\nParticipate in production incident response and root-cause analysis.\nRequirements:\nHands-on experience with Ceph\nExperience with storage monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades, expansion, and component replacement.\nExperience benchmarking storage workloads and analysing performance bottlenecks.\nAbility to diagnose storage issues across software, Linux, networks, and physical hardware.\nKnowledge of HDD, SSD, NVMe, HBA, firmware, and storage-network considerations.\nAutomation experience using Ansible, Python, shell, or similar tools.\nBackup, snapshots, replication, and disaster-recovery operations.\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nInterested applicants can also email CV at  (for faster processing, please state the exact job / position title applied “Platform Engineer (Ceph Storage)\"\nOnly shortlisted candidates will be notified.\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\nEA License Number: 10C3636\nEA Personnel Name: Jagveer Singh Arora \nEA Personnel Registration Number: R22109615\nBy submitting your resume and cover letter to apply for our job opening, you confirm that you have read the Data Protection Notice for Job Applicants (https://www.nsearchglobal.com/dp-notice/job-applicants) and you consent to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data for the purpose of verifying and evaluating your job application. Additionally, you have to notify and obtain consent from all individuals listed as your references to their data being collected and disclosed for the purposes related to your job application.\nSkills\nPreventive 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","description_format":"text","description_chars":3700,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-05T10:28:00Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":49,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.519,"p_room":0.945,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":14,"reasons":["seen:5","agency","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-10-10T05:45:15Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":112596,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/nsearch-global-platform-engineer-ceph-storage","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/nsearch-global-platform-engineer-ceph-storage.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-12T01:13:33Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1342,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-13T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3802187},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3802187"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fnsearch-global-platform-engineer-ceph-storage"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fnsearch-global-platform-engineer-ceph-storage"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fnsearch-global-platform-engineer-ceph-storage"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/nsearch-global-platform-engineer-ceph-storage\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fnsearch-global-platform-engineer-ceph-storage"}]}