Ceph Storage Engineer Job Atlancis Technologies
IT Jobs, Atlancis Technologies Jobs. Ceph Storage Engineer designing, deploying and maintaining production Ceph clusters and integrating them with OpenStack, requiring 3+ years hands-on production Ceph experience, strong Linux administration skills and experience with Python, Bash or Ansible, in a cloud technology environment, on-site role.
About the Role
Atlancis Technologies is seeking a Ceph Storage Engineer to manage and optimize the storage backbone of our multi-region OpenStack cloud, with a focus on integration, performance, reliability, troubleshooting, and automation.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, operate, and maintain production Ceph clusters.
- Integrate Ceph with OpenStack Cinder, Glance, Nova, Keystone, and RGW.
- Manage RBD, RGW, and CephFS environments.
- Configure and optimize CRUSH rules, pools, PGs, replication, and erasure coding.
- Troubleshoot OSD failures, degraded clusters, slow requests, recovery, and backfill issues.
- Manage upgrades, cluster expansion, hardware replacement, and rebalancing.
- Monitor and optimize storage performance, capacity, and availability.
- Automate deployment and operations using Ansible, Python, Bash, or IaC.
- Maintain monitoring and observability using tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
REQUIREMENTS
- 3+ years of hands-on production Ceph experience.
- Strong knowledge of RADOS, RBD, RGW, CephFS, BlueStore, CRUSH, PGs, and Erasure Coding.
- Proven experience integrating and troubleshooting Ceph with OpenStack.
- Strong Linux administration skills.
- Good understanding of NVMe, SSD, HDD, storage controllers, and storage networking.
- Experience with Python, Bash, Ansible, or Infrastructure-as-Code.
- Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or similar monitoring tools.
Added advantage: Experience with Ceph performance benchmarking, all-flash/mixed-media clusters, AWS/GCP storage services, or relevant Ceph/OpenStack certifications.
How to Apply
Apply now by sending your CV to hr@atlancis.com on or before 11th October 2026.
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