Senior/Lead Storage Engineer: Ceph, On-Prem & Cloud-Ready

Sprint and Partners; Illinois; On-site; USD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Sprint and Partners is seeking a senior storage engineer to design, operate and evolve Ceph-based infrastructure across on-premises data centers. You will own the storage stack from hardware to software layers and help ensure data integrity, performance and availability for a global fintech platform.

As part of a small, globally-distributed team, you will troubleshoot latency, plan capacity, and implement automation in Bash and Python, with on-call responsibilities and collaboration with

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in production Ceph or enterprise storage.
• Experience operating storage at meaningful scale with failure recovery.
• Hands-on knowledge of physical data centres and bare-metal infra.
• Familiarity with FC, NVMe, iSCSI and NFS workloads; block, file and object storage.

Responsibilities

• Design, operate and evolve storage infrastructure supporting a global fintech platform.
• Manage MON, MGR, OSD, MDS and RGW services and data-access patterns.
• Add/remove nodes, migrate data and respond to disk and node failures.
• Engineer CRUSH maps, data placement and failure-domain strategies.
• Diagnose degraded clusters, quorum issues and performance bottlenecks.
• Automate provisioning, configuration and upgrades with Bash, Python, Ansible or Puppet.

Skills

Ceph expertise

Linux fundamentals

Distributed storage

Automation Bash/Python

Prometheus Grafana

On-call

Tools

Pure Storage

NetApp

Dell

Hitachi

HPE

IBM

Job description

Sprint and Partners is seeking a senior storage engineer to design, operate and evolve Ceph-based infrastructure across on-premises data centers. You will own the storage stack from hardware to software layers and help ensure data integrity, performance and availability for a global fintech platform.

As part of a small, globally-distributed team, you will troubleshoot latency, plan capacity, and implement automation in Bash and Python, with on-call responsibilities and collaboration with