Ceph Platform Engineer for On-Prem Kubernetes Storage

Neurones IT Asia Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Neurones IT Asia Pte Ltd is seeking a Platform Engineer to operate and maintain Ceph-based storage for on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift environments in Singapore. The role focuses on storage reliability, performance, and incident response with hands-on management of Ceph and ODF components.

You will monitor health metrics, plan upgrades, and coordinate with infrastructure teams to ensure robust storage services for the client environment in Singapore.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Ceph.
• Storage monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades, expansion.
• Benchmarking storage workloads and analysing performance bottlenecks.
• Diagnose storage issues across software, Linux, networks, and hardware.
• Knowledge of HDD, SSD, NVMe, HBA, firmware, and storage-network considerations.
• Automation using Ansible, Python, shell, or similar tools.
• Backup, snapshots, replication, and disaster-recovery operations.

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.

Skills

Ceph

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Ceph CSI

RBD

CephFS

Ansible

Python

Shell scripting

Linux

Networking

Storage hardware

Tools

Ceph CSI

RBD

CephFS

Job description

Neurones IT Asia Pte Ltd is seeking a Platform Engineer to operate and maintain Ceph-based storage for on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift environments in Singapore. The role focuses on storage reliability, performance, and incident response with hands-on management of Ceph and ODF components.

You will monitor health metrics, plan upgrades, and coordinate with infrastructure teams to ensure robust storage services for the client environment in Singapore.