G05 - Platform Engineer (Ceph Storage Specialist)

FPT Asia Pacific; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

FPT Asia Pacific is looking for 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 operations, reliability, and capacity management, including monitoring, upgrades, disaster recovery, and performance troubleshooting.

You will collaborate with Kubernetes platform, network, and infrastructure teams to ensure storage remains scalable and well-supported.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Ceph storage operations experience.
• Experience benchmarking storage workloads and diagnosing bottlenecks.
• Solid troubleshooting across storage software, Linux, networking and hardware.
• Familiarity with automation tools and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) environments.
• Monitor cluster health, capacity, latency, throughput, PGs and device status.
• Manage OSD and node replacement, recovery, rebalancing, backfill and routine maintenance.
• Diagnose degraded PGs, slow operations, quorum issues, device failures and network storage issues.
• Plan and perform Ceph/ODF upgrades, patches, 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 storage performance issues.
• Maintain monitoring dashboards, alerts, runbooks, capacity plans and recovery procedures.
• Test recovery procedures for disk, node, service and network failures.
• Coordinate maintenance activities with infrastructure teams.
• Participate in production incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Automate routine storage ops and maintenance.

Skills

Ceph ops

Storage monitoring

Capacity planning

Upgrades

Performance troubleshooting

Root-cause analysis

Tools

Ansible

Python

Shell scripting

Job description

About the Role

We are looking for 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 the day-to-day operation, reliability, and continuous improvement of production storage services, including monitoring, maintenance, upgrades, capacity management, hardware replacement, performance troubleshooting, and failure recovery.

This is primarily an operations and engineering role, rather than a position focused on developing a new distributed storage solution. Candidates with experience operating or engineering distributed storage platforms are encouraged to apply.

You will work closely with Kubernetes platform, network, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure storage services remain reliable, scalable, and supportable.

Key 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.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience operating and supporting 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.
• Good understanding of HDD, SSD, NVMe, HBA, firmware, and storage networking.
• Experience with automation or scripting using Ansible, Python, Shell, or similar tools.
• Knowledge of backup, snapshots, replication, recovery, and disaster recovery operations.
• Experience supporting production environments and responding to storage-related incidents.
• Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift, or OpenShift Data Foundation will be highly advantageous.