Ceph Storage Operations Engineer

FPT Asia Pacific; Singapore; On-site; SGD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Unknown company is seeking a hands-on Storage Engineer to operate and maintain Ceph-based storage services supporting on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms. The role emphasizes day-to-day operation, reliability, and continuous improvement of production storage services.

You will collaborate with Kubernetes, network, and infrastructure teams to ensure storage services remain reliable, scalable, and supportable.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating Ceph environments.
• Experience with storage monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades, expansion, maintenance, and component replacement.
• Experience benchmarking storage workloads and analysing performance bottlenecks.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across storage software, Linux, networking, and physical hardware.
• Knowledge of backup, snapshots, replication, recovery, and disaster recovery operations.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) environments.
• Monitor cluster health, capacity, latency, throughput, placement groups, and storage device status.
• Manage OSD and node replacement, recovery, rebalancing, backfill, scrubbing, and routine maintenance activities.
• Diagnose and resolve degraded placement groups, slow operations, quorum issues, device failures, and network-related storage issues.
• Plan and perform Ceph and ODF upgrades, patching, capacity expansion, and configuration changes.
• Support block and shared-file storage using ODF, Ceph CSI, RBD, and CephFS.
• Troubleshoot persistent volume provisioning, attachment, mounting, expansion, and storage performance issues.
• Maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, operational runbooks, capacity plans, and recovery procedures.
• Test and validate recovery procedures for disk, node, service, and network failures.
• Coordinate server, disk, firmware, and network maintenance activities with infrastructure teams.
• Participate in production incident response, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis.
• Automate routine storage operations and maintenance activities where appropriate.

Skills

Ceph operations

Storage monitoring

Linux troubleshooting

Networking fundamentals

Hardware maintenance

Automation scripting

Tools

Ansible

Python

Shell scripting

Ceph CSI

Job description

Unknown company is seeking a hands-on Storage Engineer to operate and maintain Ceph-based storage services supporting on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms. The role emphasizes day-to-day operation, reliability, and continuous improvement of production storage services.

You will collaborate with Kubernetes, network, and infrastructure teams to ensure storage services remain reliable, scalable, and supportable.