Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vultr is a privately held cloud infrastructure company providing scalable Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions worldwide. The company is seeking a Storage Operations Engineer to build, maintain, and operate Ceph-based cloud storage environments, focusing on reliability, scalability, performance, automation, and cost optimization. The role also involves infrastructure monitoring, architecture decisions, cross-functional collaboration, and development of new storage capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Continually enhance the Ceph-based Cloud Storage System in terms of stability, scalability, functionality, performance and cost
- Actively participate in the design and architecture decisions for Ceph-based Cloud Storage
- Develop automation framework and improvements for our Ceph-based Cloud Storage infrastructure
- Optimize existing metrics collection and alerting systems
- Contribute to our internal documentation and knowledge base
- Monitor Cloud Storage infrastructure to ensure high availability and reliability of our services
- Partner with Network and Operations teams for capacity expansion and maintenance windows
- Evaluate new technologies, advance storage features and new operational methodology to drive efficiency and effectiveness
- Research and Develop cutting edge features for Ceph-based Cloud Storage
- Participate in meetings as required
- Job shadowing of new hires or other team members as required
- Effectively communicate cross-functionally
- Work independently as well as collaborate with team members and project stakeholders
Skills
- Problem solving skills using foundational data structures and distributed systems concepts
- Fluent in Linux (CentOS/RHEL/Debian/Ubuntu)
- 3+ years and extensive experience configuring, deploying, and managing distributed systems
- Hands on experience with cloud hosting, object storage, and block storage concepts
- Experience with performance tuning in virtualized environments
- Knowledge of server hardware including IPMI and storage drives (SATA, NVMe)
- Strong automating and scripting experience (Python/Bash/PHP/etc)
- Hands on experience with automation tools (Puppet/Ansible/Chef/Salt/etc)
- Effective Communication skills
- Excellent time management skills
- The ability to manage work independently
- Strong collaboration skills
- Experience with Ceph or other software defined storage a plus
- Experience with logging, metrics, and time series: Prometheus, collectd, ELK, Grafana, Graylog, Graphite, etc. a plus
Benefits
- 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
- 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
- Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
- 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
- Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary
- 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years
- Anniversary Bonus each year
- $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
- Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
- Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
- Company paid Wellable subscription
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