Remote Ceph & Proxmox Senior Infra Engineer

Saransh Inc; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Part time

Job summary

Saransh Inc. seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and scale Ceph clusters for production workloads. You will manage Proxmox VE environments, integrate Ceph with OpenStack, and automate via IaC tools.

Strong Linux, networking, and scripting skills are required to deliver reliable, scalable storage and virtualization solutions. Remote (US) contract role with visa-independent eligibility; candidates must demonstrate advanced expertise across Ceph, Proxmox, OpenStack,

Qualifications

• Advanced hands-on experience designing, deploying, operating, troubleshooting, and scaling Ceph distributed storage environments for production workloads.
• Experience with Proxmox VE clustering, integration with Ceph, networking and storage lifecycle management.
• Strong background in OpenStack modules (Nova/Neutron/Cinder/Glance/Keystone) and VMware vSphere environments.
• Deep Linux engineering skills on Red Hat/Ubuntu derivatives, systemd, LVM, multipath, and kernel tuning.
• Expertise in automation using Ansible, Terraform, Git, Python and/or Bash.
• Solid understanding of IP networking, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, and storage networks.

Responsibilities

• Design and administer multi-node Proxmox VE clusters with Ceph-backed storage.
• Deploy and manage KVM virtual machines and ensure cluster HA and quorum.
• Integrate Proxmox with Ceph-backed storage and OpenStack; plan migrations and upgrades.
• Configure Linux bridges, VLANs, bonding, and storage/network separation.
• Troubleshoot cluster, compute, storage, and VM performance issues; plan maintenance.
• Automate provisioning and lifecycle management via APIs, IaC tooling and scripts.
• Plan and execute large-scale virtualization and storage migrations with rollback plans.

Skills

Ceph storage engineering

Proxmox VE advanced

OpenStack advanced

VMware vSphere advanced

Linux systems engineering

Infrastructure as Code

Ansible

Terraform

Git

Python/Bash

Networking engineering

Tools

Proxmox VE

OpenStack

VMware vSphere

Linux

Ansible

Terraform

Git

REST APIs

Python

Bash

Job description

Saransh Inc. seeks a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, operate, and scale Ceph clusters for production workloads. You will manage Proxmox VE environments, integrate Ceph with OpenStack, and automate via IaC tools.

Strong Linux, networking, and scripting skills are required to deliver reliable, scalable storage and virtualization solutions. Remote (US) contract role with visa-independent eligibility; candidates must demonstrate advanced expertise across Ceph, Proxmox, OpenStack,