Ceph & Kubernetes Platform Engineer

XCELLINK PTE. LTD.

Singapore

On-site

SGD 90,000 - 140,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

XCELLINK PTE. LTD. is seeking a Platform Engineer to operate and maintain Ceph-based storage services supporting Kubernetes and OpenShift environments. The role focuses on daily management of Ceph and ODF clusters, monitoring health and performance, and implementing upgrades and capacity planning.

You will troubleshoot storage issues, automate routine tasks with Ansible or scripts, and contribute to incident response and recovery procedures while coordinating hardware and firmware maintenance.

Qualifications

Degree or Diploma in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline.
Hands-on experience administering and supporting Ceph environments.
Experience with storage monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades, expansion, and hardware replacement.
Good understanding of Linux systems administration.
Experience benchmarking storage workloads and analysing performance bottlenecks.
Strong troubleshooting skills across storage platforms, operating systems, networks, and hardware.
Knowledge of HDD, SSD, NVMe, HBA, firmware, and storage networking concepts.
Experience with Kubernetes and/or OpenShift environments.
Knowledge of backup, snapshots, replication, and disaster recovery processes.
Experience with automation using Ansible, Python, Shell scripting, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

Operate and maintain Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) clusters.
Monitor storage health, capacity, performance, latency, throughput, and device status.
Perform OSD replacement, node replacement, recovery, rebalancing, backfill, and routine maintenance.
Troubleshoot placement group issues, slow operations, quorum problems, hardware failures, and storage-related network issues.
Plan and execute upgrades, patching, expansion, and configuration changes.
Support Ceph CSI, RBD, and CephFS storage services.
Troubleshoot persistent volume provisioning, attachment, mounting, expansion, and performance issues.
Maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, runbooks, capacity plans, and recovery procedures.
Conduct recovery testing for disk, node, service, and network failures.
Coordinate hardware, firmware, and infrastructure maintenance activities.
Participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
Develop and maintain operational automation scripts where applicable.

Skills

Ceph

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Linux

Storage monitoring

Ansible

Python

Shell scripting

Troubleshooting

Education

Degree or Diploma in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

ODF

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

You will troubleshoot storage issues, automate routine tasks with Ansible or scripts, and contribute to incident response and recovery procedures while coordinating hardware and firmware maintenance.

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