G05 - Platform Engineer (Ceph Storage Specialist)

FPT Asia Pacific Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 140,000; 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 on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms.

The role emphasizes day-to-day reliability, capacity management, upgrades, and incident response, working with platform, network, and infra teams to keep storage scalable and available.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Ceph operations and support
• Storage monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades and scaling
• Benchmarking workloads and diagnosing bottlenecks
• Strong troubleshooting across storage software, Linux, network, and hardware
• Knowledge of backup, snapshots, replication, and DR
• Experience with Kubernetes/OpenShift environments is a plus
• Experience with automation using scripting/tools (Ansible, Python, Shell)

Responsibilities

• Operate and maintain Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation environments.
• Monitor cluster health, capacity, latency, throughput, PGs, and device status.
• Manage OSD/node replacement, recovery, rebalancing, backfill, scrubbing, maintenance.
• Diagnose degraded PGs, slow ops, quorum and device failures.
• Plan Ceph/ODF upgrades, patching, capacity expansion, config changes.
• Support block and shared-file storage via ODF, Ceph CSI, RBD, CephFS.
• Troubleshoot PVC provisioning, attachment, mounting, expansion, performance.
• Maintain dashboards, alerts, runbooks, capacity plans, recovery procedures.
• Test recovery procedures for disk/node/service/network failures.
• Coordinate hardware/network maintenance with infra teams.
• Participate in production incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Automate routine storage ops where possible.

Skills

Ceph

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Linux troubleshooting

Storage monitoring

Capacity planning

Automation

Python

Ansible

Shell scripting

Hardware/failure recovery

Tools

Ceph

ODF/OpenShift Data Foundation

Ansible

Python

Shell

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.