Ceph Storage Platform Operations Engineer

DBiz.ai; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

DBiz.ai is seeking a hands-on Platform Operations Engineer to operate and improve Ceph-based storage services for on-prem Kubernetes and OpenShift deployments on a client project going live soon.

You will own day-to-day reliability, perform upgrades and capacity planning, and coordinate hardware maintenance while building runbooks, dashboards, and RCA practices to keep storage robust and scalable.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Ceph in production environments with day-2 operations
• Experience with OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) and storage services for Kubernetes/OpenShift
• Strong storage operations skills: monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades, expansion, and component replacement
• Ability to troubleshoot complex storage issues across software, Linux, networks, and hardware
• Knowledge of storage hardware performance factors: HDD/SSD/NVMe, HBA, firmware
• Experience with Ceph CSI, RBD, and CephFS for PV management
• Scripting/automation using Ansible, Python, or shell to reduce manual work
• Excellent runbooks, documentation, and operational standards

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain production Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation environments
• Monitor storage health across capacity, latency, throughput, PGs, and device status
• Perform rebalancing, backfill, scrubbing, recovery actions, and cluster maintenance
• Plan and execute Ceph/ODF upgrades, patching, expansions, and configuration changes
• Manage OSD and node replacement with infra teams
• Diagnose and resolve production incidents (degraded PGs, slow ops, quorum issues)
• Support Kubernetes/OpenShift storage (Ceph CSI, RBD, CephFS) and PV lifecycle
• Maintain runbooks, dashboards, alerts, capacity plans, recovery procedures
• Test recovery from disk/node/service/network failures and improve resilience
• Participate in incident response, RCA, and drive corrective actions
• Collaborate with platform/network/infrastructure/application teams for reliability

Skills

Ceph

OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)

Storage operations

Troubleshooting storage issues

Linux

HDD/SSD/NVMe hardware knowledge

Ceph CSI/RBD/CephFS

Automation (Ansible, Python, shell)

Runbooks and documentation

Incident response/On-call

Job description

DBiz.ai is seeking a hands-on Platform Operations Engineer to operate and improve Ceph-based storage services for on-prem Kubernetes and OpenShift deployments on a client project going live soon.

You will own day-to-day reliability, perform upgrades and capacity planning, and coordinate hardware maintenance while building runbooks, dashboards, and RCA practices to keep storage robust and scalable.