Senior Storage & Datacenter Team Lead (Ceph/Linux)

The Voleon Group; Berkeley, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Life and AD&D insurance

20 days paid time off

9 sick days

401(k) plan with company match

Catered lunches and modern office

Job summary

The Voleon Group is seeking a hands-on Storage and Datacenter Team Manager to guide and grow our Storage Engineering group. You will provide architectural oversight, mentorship, and direct implementation support across production and research facilities.

You will lead by example—driving automation, managing on-call rotations, and collaborating with networking, virtualization, and application teams to deliver scalable, PB-scale storage solutions using Ceph and related technologies.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Linux systems administration with storage focus.
• 2+ years of team leadership, technical project management, or mentoring experience.
• Knowledge of distributed storage systems such as Ceph and storage technologies including RAID, SAN, and NAS.
• Experience streamlining data lifecycle processes including archiving, backup, and retention of PB-scale data.
• Hands-on experience with co-located data center infrastructure.
• Strong scripting/development experience in Bash and/or Python.
• Experience with Ansible and CI/CD practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead a storage, database, and systems administration team with mentorship and career development responsibilities.
• Coordinate datacenter operations across production and research facilities; manage site work and vendor visits.
• Align team priorities with goals and ensure timely project delivery.
• Participate in hiring to grow storage engineering capabilities.
• Manage on-call schedules and incident response processes.
• Architect, implement, and maintain highly available storage systems; drive automation strategies.

Skills

Leadership

Mentorship

Strategic planning

Communication

Tools

Ceph

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

KVM

ESXi

Docker

Podman

Nagios/CheckMK

Git

SAN

NAS

Job description

The Voleon Group is seeking a hands-on Storage and Datacenter Team Manager to guide and grow our Storage Engineering group. You will provide architectural oversight, mentorship, and direct implementation support across production and research facilities.

You will lead by example—driving automation, managing on-call rotations, and collaborating with networking, virtualization, and application teams to deliver scalable, PB-scale storage solutions using Ceph and related technologies.