Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Kforce Inc is seeking an experienced Ceph Storage Administration Senior Consultant to design, implement, administer, and optimize enterprise-scale Ceph storage environments. This role serves as a trusted technical advisor, supporting critical storage infrastructure initiatives and ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance across complex environments.
Responsibilities
- Design, deploy, configure, and maintain Ceph storage clusters in enterprise environments
- Monitor and optimize cluster health, performance, capacity planning, and fault tolerance
- Perform upgrades, patching, troubleshooting, and disaster recovery activities
- Administer and support Ceph components including: RADOS RBD (RADOS Block Device) CephFS Object Gateway (RGW) MON, OSD, MDS, and Manager services
- Analyze storage performance metrics and implement improvements
- Troubleshoot complex storage, network, and Linux operating system issues
- Develop automation scripts and operational procedures to improve efficiency
- Collaborate with infrastructure, cloud, DevOps, and application teams to support business requirements
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior administrators and engineers
- Create and maintain architecture diagrams, operational documentation, and knowledge-base articles
- Participate in incident response, root-cause analysis, and remediation efforts
- Ensure storage environments comply with security and regulatory requirements
Skills
- 7+ years of experience administering enterprise storage platforms
- 3+ years of hands-on experience managing Ceph storage environments
- Strong experience with Linux administration (Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rocky Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, or similar)
- Deep understanding of distributed storage architectures and software-defined storage concepts
- Experience troubleshooting storage, networking, and performance-related issues
- Knowledge of TCP/IP networking, VLANs, DNS, load balancing, and storage networking concepts
- Experience with scripting and automation using Bash, Python, or Ansible
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently in a fully remote consulting environment
- Experience with Red Hat Ceph Storage
- Experience supporting Kubernetes, OpenShift, or containerized workloads
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
- Experience with virtualization technologies including VMware vSphere, KVM, or OpenStack
- Consulting or professional services experience supporting multiple client environments
- Experience designing highly available and disaster recovery-focused storage solutions
- Relevant certifications in Linux, Red Hat, OpenShift, cloud technologies, or storage administration
Benefits
- Medical/dental/vision insurance
- HSA
- FSA
- 401(k)
- Life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees
- Salaried personnel receive paid time off
- Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave
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