Senior Storage Engineer

Quantum Technologies LLC; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Quantum Technologies. LLC seeks a storage-focused engineer to design, implement, and optimize a scalable storage layer for production systems in Portland, OR. You will work with Rook/Ceph, Kubernetes CSI and advanced Ceph features to ensure reliability, performance, and data protection.

You will also automate storage operations using Bash, Python and Go, with Ansible/Helm tooling, and participate in disaster recovery testing to validate high availability and data integrity across the cluster.

Qualifications

• 3+ years production experience with Rook/Ceph.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes storage (CSI, StorageClasses, PV/PVC).
• Experience with Ceph RBD, CephFS, RGW, BlueStore and CRUSH.
• Linux storage administration and troubleshooting.
• SSD/NVMe performance tuning.
• Storage benchmarking with fio, rados bench, rbd bench.
• Storage replication, erasure coding and high availability.
• Storage failure testing, recovery and disaster recovery.
• Encryption at rest with LUKS/dm-crypt and Vault.
• Storage networking and performance optimization.
• Automation using Bash/Python/Go; Ansible/Helm.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and manage storage infrastructure based on Ceph and Kubernetes.
• Optimize performance across SSD/NVMe and network storage links.
• Implement replication, erasure coding, and high availability strategies.
• Develop automation scripts and playbooks (Bash/Python/Go; Ansible/Helm).
• Troubleshoot storage issues and perform disaster recovery testing.

Skills

Rook/Ceph

Kubernetes

K3s

Linux Storage

SSD/NVMe

Storage Bench

Storage Replication

Encryption at Rest

Automation

Python

Go

Bash

Tools

Ceph

RBD

CephFS

RGW

BlueStore/CRUSH

Kubernetes CSI

StorageClasses

PV/PVC

fio

rados bench

rbd bench

LUKS/dm-crypt

Vault

Ansible

Helm

Job description

Job Description:

• Rook/Ceph - 3+ Years Production Experience
• Bare-Metal Kubernetes & K3s Storage
• Kubernetes CSI, StorageClasses, PV/PVC
• Ceph RBD, CephFS, RGW, BlueStore & CRUSH
• Linux Storage Administration & Troubleshooting
• SSD/NVMe Performance Tuning
• Storage Benchmarking - fio, rados bench, rbd bench
• Storage Replication, Erasure Coding & High Availability
• Storage Failure Testing, Recovery & Disaster Recovery
• Encryption at Rest - LUKS/dm-crypt, HashiCorp Vault
• Storage Networking & Performance Optimization
• Automation - Bash/Python/Go, Ansible/Helm