Storage Operations Engineer - Multiple Openings

About the role

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Storage Operations Engineer to build, maintain, and operate Vultr Cloud Storage environments. The ideal candidate is intimately familiar with the day-to-day operations of software-defined scale-out storage systems, such as Ceph.

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
• Maintain and 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

Qualifications

• 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)
• Proficiency with the following:
• 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
• Effective Communication skills
• Excellent time management skills
• The ability to manage work independently
• Strong collaboration skills

Pay

$80,000 - $110,000 Final compensation will vary depending on years of experience, background/skill set, location, and applicable laws.