Ceph Storage Specialist

Ceph Storage Specialist (On-PremisesOpenShift cluster)

Weare looking for a hands-on Ceph Storage Specialist to design, deploy, manage,and optimize storage infrastructure for our on-premises OpenShift clusters.

Theideal candidate will have deep expertise in Ceph, OpenShift Data Foundation(ODF), and enterprise storage administration in production on-premenvironments. You will ensure high availability, performance, scalability, andreliability of storage services that support critical containerized workloadsrunning on OpenShift.

KeyResponsibilities

•          Design, deploy, configure, and maintainlarge-scale Ceph clusters (RBD, CephFS, RGW) integrated with on-premisesOpenShift.

•          Administer and optimize OpenShift DataFoundation (ODF) for on-prem OpenShift clusters, including StorageClasses,PersistentVolumes, and CSI drivers.

•          Perform day-to-day operations: capacityplanning, performance tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting, upgrades, andincident resolution.

•          Manage storage lifecycle activities —provisioning, replication, erasure coding, snapshots, backups, and disasterrecovery — in an on-premises environment.

•          Integrate and maintain Ceph/ODF withOpenShift platform components, networking, and underlying infrastructure(servers, networking, hypervisors if applicable).

•          Develop and maintain automation (Ansible,Python, shell scripts) for storage provisioning, configuration management, andoperational tasks.

•          Ensure security, compliance, data protection,and best practices for on-prem storage environments.

•          Collaborate closely with OpenShift platform,infrastructure, and application teams to support storage requirements forproduction workloads.

•          Create and maintain technical documentation,runbooks, and operational procedures

RequiredSkills & Experience

•        Strong hands-on experience administering Cephclusters in production (cluster management, OSDs, MONs, MGRs, performancetuning, upgrades, and troubleshooting).

•        Proven experience with OpenShift DataFoundation (ODF) / Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage in on-premisesenvironments.

•        Solid background in enterprise storageadministration (block, file, and object storage) for on-prem infrastructure.

•        Experience with OpenShift/Kubernetes storageconcepts: CSI drivers, PersistentVolumes, PersistentVolumeClaims,StorageClasses, and dynamic provisioning.

•        Strong Linux system administration skills andunderstanding of storage-related networking (including on-prem networkingconsiderations).

•        Experience with monitoring and observabilitytools commonly used with Ceph and OpenShift (Prometheus, Grafana, CephDashboard, etc.).

•        Familiarity with automation andinfrastructure-as-code tools (Ansible preferred, Terraform, etc.).

•        Proven troubleshooting skills in complexdistributed storage systems running on bare-metal or virtualized on-preminfrastructure.

PreferredQualifications

•        Red Hat certifications (RHCE, OpenShiftAdministration, or storage-related credentials).

•        Experience managing multi-node / multi-rackCeph clusters in on-prem data centers.

•        Knowledge of high-availability architectures,multi-site replication, and disaster recovery strategies for Ceph/ODF.

•        Experience with underlying hardware (servers,storage media, networking) in on-prem environments.

•        Scripting/programming skills (Python, Bash).

•        Exposure to other enterprise storageplatforms is a plus.