Senior Storage Engineer

Valiant Technologies LLC; Portland (OR); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC in Portland, OR seeks a storage-focused engineer with 3+ years of production Rook/Ceph experience. You will manage bare-metal Kubernetes/K3s storage, CSI workflows, and Ceph backends (RBD/CephFS/RGW) with encryption at rest and DR readiness. Expect automation via Bash/Python/Go and Ansible.

You'll optimize storage performance, run benchmarks, and ensure high availability across resilience-critical systems while collaborating with DevOps teams.

Qualifications

• Production experience with Rook/Ceph in Linux environments.
• Kubernetes on bare metal with K3s storage setup.
• Experience with Ceph storage backends and CSI integration.
• Storage benchmarking and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Manage Rook/Ceph in production across durable storage arrays.
• Configure StorageClasses, PV/PVC, and CSI integrations.
• Perform encryption-at-rest and secure key management.
• Conduct storage benchmarking with fio and rados/rbd tools.
• Implement replication, high availability, and DR tests.
• Automate storage ops with Bash/Python/Go and Ansible.

Skills

Rook/Ceph

Bare-Metal Kubernetes

Kubernetes CSI

PV/PVC

Ceph RBD

CephFS

RADOS/BlueStore

Encryption at Rest

LUKS/dm-crypt

Vault

Ansible

Helm

Go

Python

Bash

Tools

Kubernetes

K3s

Ceph

fio

rados bench

rbd bench

Ansible

Helm

Vault

LUKS

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