Senior Storage Systems Engineer - Remote (US)

Mirantis; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

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Job summary

Mirantis is seeking a Senior Storage Systems Engineer to deploy, integrate, and operate high-performance storage for GPU-accelerated compute and AI workloads. The role spans hybrid, edge, and air-gapped deployments built on Mirantis K0rdent, with an emphasis on Kubernetes storage, NFS, and CSI integration.

You will automate provisioning, tune data paths, and ensure scalable storage for demanding workloads using Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps pipelines. Remote work within the US is supported.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in SRE or hardware/storage infrastructure operations
• 5+ years building/operating distributed production storage systems at scale
• 7+ years Linux and Kubernetes storage fundamentals (NFS, CSI)
• 1+ year of experience integrating with or building High Performance Storage solutions (VAST, Weka, DDN, PowerScale)

Responsibilities

• Integrate NFS-based high-performance storage into Kubernetes clusters via CSI, storage classes, and persistent volumes
• Tune the NFS data path for high-throughput, low-latency GPU/AI workloads
• Deploy and operate storage services and operators; manage capacity, quotas, snapshots, and lifecycle
• Configure and optimize Linux systems for storage workloads, including driver setup, file system layout, network tuning, and kernel parameter optimization
• Deliver storage integration for k0s-based Kubernetes via Cluster API (CAPI) and K0rdent management/child cluster topologies
• Operate storage in air-gapped environments with Harbor and PKI/TLS considerations
• Automate storage provisioning and configuration with IaC and GitOps pipelines
• Build monitoring, alerting, and observability for storage performance, capacity, and health
• Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and scaling issues across the storage stack

Skills

SRE storage infra

Distributed storage

Kubernetes storage

Linux storage fundamentals

High-performance storage

Tools

Terraform/OpenTofu

GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux)

Job description

Mirantis is seeking a Senior Storage Systems Engineer to deploy, integrate, and operate high-performance storage for GPU-accelerated compute and AI workloads. The role spans hybrid, edge, and air-gapped deployments built on Mirantis K0rdent, with an emphasis on Kubernetes storage, NFS, and CSI integration.

You will automate provisioning, tune data paths, and ensure scalable storage for demanding workloads using Terraform/OpenTofu and GitOps pipelines. Remote work within the US is supported.