Platform Engineer

Neurones IT Asia Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Neurones IT Asia Pte Ltd is seeking a Platform Engineer to operate and maintain Ceph-based storage for on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift environments in Singapore. The role focuses on storage reliability, performance, and incident response with hands-on management of Ceph and ODF components.

You will monitor health metrics, plan upgrades, and coordinate with infrastructure teams to ensure robust storage services for the client environment in Singapore.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Ceph.
• Storage monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades, expansion.
• Benchmarking storage workloads and analysing performance bottlenecks.
• Diagnose storage issues across software, Linux, networks, and hardware.
• Knowledge of HDD, SSD, NVMe, HBA, firmware, and storage-network considerations.
• Automation 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, placement groups, 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

Ceph CSI

RBD

CephFS

Ansible

Python

Shell scripting

Linux

Networking

Storage hardware

Tools

Ceph CSI

RBD

CephFS

Job description

We are looking for a Platform Egineer with hands-on storage engineer to operate and maintain the Ceph-based storage services supporting our on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift platform for our client based in Singapore.

Key Responsibilities:

• Operate and maintain Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation environments.
• Monitor cluster health, capacity, latency, throughput, placement groups, 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.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Hands-on experience with Ceph
• Experience with storage monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades, expansion, and component replacement.
• Experience 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