Software Engineer - Storage Infrastructure

GovTech Singapore; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Leave benefits

Wellness programs

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

GovTech Singapore is hiring a hands-on Storage Engineer to operate and maintain Ceph-based storage services that support our on-prem Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms.

The role focuses on production storage reliability, capacity planning, upgrades, and incident response. Candidates with experience in distributed storage, Linux administration, and automation will thrive in this team-driven environment.

Qualifications

• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience developing or operating distributed-storage platforms.
• Solid understanding of quorum, data placement, replication, and failure domains.
• Experience with storage monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades, expansion, and component replacement.
• Ability to diagnose storage issues across software, Linux, networks, and hardware.
• Knowledge of HDD, SSD, NVMe, HBA, firmware, and storage-network considerations.

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.
• Plan and perform Ceph/ODF upgrades, expansion, patching, and configuration changes.
• Troubleshoot persistent-volume provisioning, attachment, mounting, expansion, and performance issues.
• Maintain dashboards, alerts, runbooks, capacity plans, and recovery procedures.
• Coordinate server, disk, firmware, and network maintenance with infrastructure teams.
• Participate in production incident response and root-cause analysis.

Skills

Linux administration

Distributed storage concepts

Storage troubleshooting

Networking basics

Tools

Ceph

OpenShift Data Foundation

ODF

Ansible

Python

Job description

GovTech is the lead agency driving Singapore's Smart Nation initiatives and public sector digital transformation. As the Centre of Excellence for Infocomm Technology and Smart Systems (ICT & SS), GovTech develops the Singapore Government's capabilities in Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Application Development, Smart City Technology, Digital Infrastructure, and Cybersecurity.

At GovTech, we offer you a purposeful career to make lives better where we empower our people to master their craft through robust learning and development opportunities all year round.

Play a part in Singapore's vision to build a Smart Nation and embark on your meaningful journey to build tech for public good. Join us to advance our mission and shape your future with us today!

Learn more about GovTech at tech.gov.sg.

[What you will be working on]

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

The role focuses on operating and improving production storage services, including monitoring, maintenance, upgrades, capacity management, hardware replacement, performance troubleshooting, and failure recovery. We are not developing a new distributed-storage solution. Candidates with experience developing or operating distributed-storage platforms are encouraged to apply.

You will work closely with the Kubernetes platform, network, infrastructure, and application teams to keep storage services reliable and supportable.

• 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.

[What we are looking for]

• Experience developing or operating distributed-storage platforms.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong understanding of distributed-storage concepts, including quorum, data placement, replication, failure domains, recovery, rebalancing, and block, file, or object storage.
• 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.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, bandwidth, latency, packet loss, and network redundancy.

What we offer you:

GovTech is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values diverse voices and perspectives, as we believe that diversity is the foundation to innovation.

Our employee benefits are based on a total rewards approach, offering a holistic and market-competitive suite of perks. These include leave benefits to meet your work-life needs and employee wellness programs.

We champion flexible work arrangements (subject to your job role) and trust that you will manage your own time to deliver your best, wherever you are, and whatever works best for you.

Learn more about life inside GovTech at go.gov.sg/GovTechCareers.

Stay connected with us on social media at go.gov.sg/ConnectWithGovTech