Ceph Storage Platform Engineer – OpenShift/Kubernetes

NSEARCH GLOBAL PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

NSEARCH GLOBAL PTE. LTD. is seeking a Platform Engineer (Ceph Storage) to operate and maintain Ceph-based storage for our on-prem Kubernetes/OpenShift environment.

You will focus on reliability, capacity planning, performance tuning, and incident response within a multi-team setting. You will collaborate with Kubernetes, network, and infrastructure teams to ensure high availability of storage services, execute upgrades, and optimize storage workflows across Ceph, ODF, and CephFS.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Ceph storage experience.
• Experience with storage monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades and expansion.
• Benchmarking storage workloads and analysing performance bottlenecks.
• Ability to diagnose storage issues across software, Linux, networks, and physical hardware.
• Knowledge of HDD, SSD, NVMe, HBA, firmware and storage-network considerations.
• Automation experience 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, PGs, 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

Monitoring

Capacity planning

Upgrades

Automation

Tools

Ansible

Python

Shell

Job description

NSEARCH GLOBAL PTE. LTD. is seeking a Platform Engineer (Ceph Storage) to operate and maintain Ceph-based storage for our on-prem Kubernetes/OpenShift environment.

You will focus on reliability, capacity planning, performance tuning, and incident response within a multi-team setting. You will collaborate with Kubernetes, network, and infrastructure teams to ensure high availability of storage services, execute upgrades, and optimize storage workflows across Ceph, ODF, and CephFS.