Remote Senior Software Systems Engineer (Storage) - Remote In The Us

Mirantis Inc.; Santa Cruz de Tenerife; Remote; EUR 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation package

Professional development and training

Conference attendance and tech talks

Job summary

Mirantis, a leader in Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure, seeks a senior DevOps storage engineer to own the storage stack for GPU-accelerated AI workloads. You will design, deploy, and tune high-performance NFS-based storage integrated with Kubernetes via CSI, while ensuring robust automation and observability across hybrid and air-gapped deployments.

The role requires deep Linux storage knowledge, experience with bare-metal provisioning, and hands-on work with CSI, K0rdent stack, and storage

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in SRE or infrastructure operations.
• 5+ years of building/operating distributed production storage systems at scale.
• Hands-on with high-performance storage solutions (VAST, Weka, DDN, PowerScale).
• Linux and Kubernetes storage fundamentals (NFS, CSI).

Responsibilities

• Storage Integration & Operation: Integrate NFS-based high-performance storage into Kubernetes via CSI, storage classes and persistent volumes.
• Linux Platform & System Integration: Optimize Linux systems for storage workloads and cluster integrations.
• Automation & Observability: Automate provisioning with Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps; build monitoring and alerts.

Skills

SRE / infrastructure operations

Distributed storage systems

High performance storage

Linux & Kubernetes storage

Bare-metal provisioning

VAST / Dell PowerScale experience

GPUDirect Storage / RDMA

Tools

VAST

Dell PowerScale

GPUDirect Storage

K0rdent stack

Cluster API

Harbor

Job description

Company Description

About Mirantis

Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy.

Job Description

Overview

Deploy, integrate, and operate high-performance storage for GPU-accelerated compute and AI platforms. You will own the storage layer where Kubernetes meets bare metal — standing up NFS-based high-performance storage, wiring it into clusters via CSI, and tuning it to keep data flowing to GPU workloads at scale. Work spans hybrid, edge, and air-gapped deployments built on the Mirantis K0rdent stack.

About the Role

We are looking for a senior DevOps engineer who treats storage as infrastructure to be automated, observed, and tuned — not hand-managed. The right candidate is fluent in Kubernetes storage, deeply versed in Linux storage and networking fundamentals down to the kernel and NFS-client layer, and knows how to make high-performance NAS actually perform under demanding workloads. You should reach for infrastructure-as-code and GitOps by default, be self-directed in diagnosing performance and reliability issues end to end, set operational standards for others to follow, and communicate clearly across teams. Bare-metal hardware experience is a strong plus, but deep Linux storage knowledge is essential.

Responsibilities

1. Storage Integration & Operation

• Integrate NFS-based high-performance storage (e.g., VAST, Dell PowerScale) into Kubernetes clusters via CSI, storage classes, and persistent volumes.
• Tune the NFS data path — mount options, nconnect/RDMA, Linux client, and network settings — for high-throughput, low-latency GPU/AI workloads.
• Deploy and operate storage services and operators; manage capacity, quotas, snapshots, and lifecycle.

2. Linux Platform & System Integration

• Configure and optimize Linux systems for storage workloads, including driver setup, file system layout, network tuning, and kernel parameter optimization.
• Deliver storage integration for k0s-based Kubernetes via Cluster API (CAPI) and K0rdent management/child cluster topologies.
• Operate storage in fully disconnected (air-gapped) environments, including local artifact/mirror connectivity (Harbor) and PKI/TLS considerations.

3. Automation & Observability

• Automate storage provisioning and configuration with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu) and GitOps pipelines (ArgoCD or Flux).
• Build monitoring, alerting, and observability for storage performance, capacity, and health.
• Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and scaling issues across the storage stack.

Qualifications

Required qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in SRE or infrastructure operations

• 5+ years of building/operating distributed production Storage systems at scale

• Hands-on with High Performance Storage solutions (VAST, Weka, DDN, PowerScale)

• Linux and Kubernetes storage fundamentals (NFS, CSI)

Preferred:

• Bare-metal experience: hands-on experience with bare-metal host provisioning, raw disk/hardware layout, and physical server storage configurations.

• Hands-on experience with VAST and/or Dell PowerScale.

• Experience with GPUDirect Storage and RDMA/RoCE data paths

• Experience with the Mirantis K0rdent stack (K0rdent Enterprise, K0rdent AI, k0s, MKE) and Cluster API.

• Familiarity with other storage backends (Ceph, object/S3) and CSI driver operations.

• Proven experience in sovereign or high-security air-gapped environments.

Additional Information

What does Mirantis offer you?

• Work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry;
• Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies;
• Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation;
• Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk‑taking, and continuous growth are valued;
• Professional development and training;
• Attend conferences and working groups;
• Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks;
• Receive a competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan.

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