Ceph Storage Operations Engineer for Kubernetes Infra

FPT ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

FPT Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. is seeking a hands-on Storage Engineer to operate and maintain Ceph-based storage services supporting our on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms.

The role focuses on day-to-day operations, reliability, capacity planning, upgrades, and failure recovery across Ceph and ODF environments. Collaboration with platform, network, and infra teams is essential.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Ceph environments experience.
• Storage monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades and expansion.
• Benchmarks storage workloads and analyzes bottlenecks.
• Strong troubleshooting across storage software, Linux, networking and hardware.
• Knowledge of HDD/SSD/NVMe, firmware and storage networking.
• Automation or scripting with Ansible, Python, Shell, or similar tools.
• Backup, snapshots, replication, recovery, and disaster recovery operations.
• Experience with production environments and storage incidents.
• Kubernetes/OpenShift/OpenShift Data Foundation experience is highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation environments.
• Monitor cluster health, capacity, latency, throughput, PGs and device status.
• Manage OSD and node replacement, recovery, rebalancing, backfill, scrubbing, and maintenance.
• Diagnose degraded placement groups, slow ops, quorum issues, device failures, and network issues.
• Plan and perform Ceph and ODF upgrades, patching, capacity expansion and config changes.
• Support block and shared-file storage using ODF, Ceph CSI, RBD and CephFS.
• Troubleshoot PV provisioning, attachment, mounting, expansion and performance issues.
• Maintain dashboards, alerts, 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 with infra teams.
• Participate in production incident response, troubleshooting and RCAs.
• Automate routine storage operations and maintenance tasks where appropriate.

Skills

Linux

Networking

Scripting

Automation

Troubleshooting

Tools

Ceph

ODF

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CephFS

RBD

Ceph CSI

Job description

FPT Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. is seeking a hands-on Storage Engineer to operate and maintain Ceph-based storage services supporting our on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms.

The role focuses on day-to-day operations, reliability, capacity planning, upgrades, and failure recovery across Ceph and ODF environments. Collaboration with platform, network, and infra teams is essential.