Storage Engineer: Ceph & OpenShift (Flexible Work)

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 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.