Lead Storage Engineer — Ceph, Linux & On-Prem

Sprint and Partners; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Sprint and Partners seeks an experienced storage engineer to design, operate and optimize a Ceph-driven storage platform for a global fintech service. You will manage data placement, replication, and recovery while coordinating with database, networking and platform teams in a primarily on-premises environment.

The role emphasizes deep production experience with Ceph or enterprise storage, Linux fundamentals, and hands-on capabilities with storage hardware across multiple vendors.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in production Ceph or enterprise storage with exposure to the other.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot active production clusters, not just deployments.
• Strong Linux and distributed-storage fundamentals with willingness to deepen Ceph expertise.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate and evolve storage infrastructure for a global fintech platform.
• Reason about data placement, replication, quorum, failure domains, latency and capacity.
• Trace complex problems across disks, controllers, networks and the Linux storage stack.
• Collaborate with database, networking, application and platform engineering teams.
• Operate SAN, NAS, DAS and object storage across Ceph and enterprise appliances.
• Automate provisioning, configuration and upgrades using Bash, Python, Ansible or Puppet.

Skills

Ceph

Linux

Distributed storage

Automation

Python

Bash

Ansible

Puppet

Prometheus

Grafana

Networking

NVMe

Tools

Pure Storage

NetApp

Dell

Hitachi

HPE

IBM

Job description

Sprint and Partners seeks an experienced storage engineer to design, operate and optimize a Ceph-driven storage platform for a global fintech service. You will manage data placement, replication, and recovery while coordinating with database, networking and platform teams in a primarily on-premises environment.

The role emphasizes deep production experience with Ceph or enterprise storage, Linux fundamentals, and hands-on capabilities with storage hardware across multiple vendors.