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Senior Ceph/Rook-Ceph + Kubernetes Storage Engineer

Globaldev Group Portugal • Slovakia


No Relocation

Posted: August 17, 2026

Job Description

We’re currently looking for a Senior Ceph/Rook-Ceph + Kubernetes Storage Engineer to join a long-term project. The role focuses on production Ceph environments, Kubernetes storage, and infrastructure troubleshooting.

We’re currently looking for a Senior Ceph/Rook-Ceph + Kubernetes Storage Engineer to join a long-term project. The role focuses on production Ceph environments, Kubernetes storage, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
  • 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure or storage engineering
  • Deep hands-on production Ceph experience: OSD, MON, MGR, PGs, recovery, backfill, capacity planning, performance tuning, scaling and high availability
  • Experience building, operating, upgrading and troubleshooting production Ceph clusters
  • Hands-on Rook-Ceph in Kubernetes, preferably business-critical production environments
  • Strong Kubernetes knowledge, including CSI/storage integration
  • Linux administration and troubleshooting at OS/hardware level
  • Automation experience with Ansible
  • Kubernetes tooling such as Helm
  • Monitoring/observability with Prometheus and Grafana
  • Experience investigating storage performance, latency, disk failures, network bottlenecks and recovery issues
  • Strong understanding of failure domains, CRUSH topology, replication and storage architecture
  • Good English communication skills

Highly valuable but not mandatory:

  • OpenStack experience, especially Ceph integration with Cinder, Glance, Nova and RBD
  • Petabyte-scale Ceph environments
  • Bare-metal infrastructure
  • Large production Rook-Ceph clusters
  • CephFS and RGW/S3 experience
  • Customer-facing troubleshooting/support experience

Additional Content

We’re currently looking for a Senior Ceph/Rook-Ceph + Kubernetes Storage Engineer to join a long-term project. The role focuses on production Ceph environments, Kubernetes storage, and infrastructure troubleshooting.

We’re currently looking for a Senior Ceph/Rook-Ceph + Kubernetes Storage Engineer to join a long-term project. The role focuses on production Ceph environments, Kubernetes storage, and infrastructure troubleshooting.
  • 5+ years in DevOps, SRE, infrastructure or storage engineering
  • Deep hands-on production Ceph experience: OSD, MON, MGR, PGs, recovery, backfill, capacity planning, performance tuning, scaling and high availability
  • Experience building, operating, upgrading and troubleshooting production Ceph clusters
  • Hands-on Rook-Ceph in Kubernetes, preferably business-critical production environments
  • Strong Kubernetes knowledge, including CSI/storage integration
  • Linux administration and troubleshooting at OS/hardware level
  • Automation experience with Ansible
  • Kubernetes tooling such as Helm
  • Monitoring/observability with Prometheus and Grafana
  • Experience investigating storage performance, latency, disk failures, network bottlenecks and recovery issues
  • Strong understanding of failure domains, CRUSH topology, replication and storage architecture
  • Good English communication skills

Highly valuable but not mandatory:

  • OpenStack experience, especially Ceph integration with Cinder, Glance, Nova and RBD
  • Petabyte-scale Ceph environments
  • Bare-metal infrastructure
  • Large production Rook-Ceph clusters
  • CephFS and RGW/S3 experience
  • Customer-facing troubleshooting/support experience