Platform Operations Engineer

About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on Platform Operations Engineer (Ceph Storage Specialist) to operate and continuously improve Ceph-based storage services that support on-premises Kubernetes and OpenShift platforms for one of our clientele project that is going live soon. This role is operations-focused (production reliability and supportability), covering monitoring, maintenance, upgrades, capacity management, hardware lifecycle, performance troubleshooting, and failure recovery. You will work closely with platform, network, infrastructure, and application teams to keep storage services reliable, scalable, and well-governed.

Key Responsibilities

Operate and maintain production

Ceph

and

OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)

environments supporting Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms.

Monitor and manage storage health and performance across

capacity, latency, throughput, placement groups (PGs), and device status .

Perform routine operational tasks including

rebalancing, backfill, scrubbing, recovery actions , and general cluster maintenance.

Plan and execute

Ceph/ODF upgrades, patching, expansions, and configuration changes

with minimal service disruption.

Manage

OSD and node replacement , including coordinating server/disk/firmware maintenance with infrastructure teams.

Diagnose and resolve production incidents involving

degraded PGs, slow ops, quorum issues, device failures, and network-related storage problems .

Support Kubernetes/OpenShift storage consumption patterns, including: (

Ceph CSI, RBD (block storage) & CephFS (shared file storage))

Persistent Volume lifecycle troubleshooting (provisioning, attachment, mounting, expansion, and performance)

Maintain and improve operational readiness through

dashboards, alerts, runbooks, capacity plans, and recovery procedures .

Test and validate recovery from

disk, node, service, and network failures , and continuously improve resilience.

Participate in production incident response, post-incident review, and

root-cause analysis (RCA)

drive corrective and preventive actions.

Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders (platform, network, infrastructure, application teams) to ensure storage services remain reliable and supportable for clientele platforms.

Required Skills and Experience

Hands-on experience operating

Ceph

in production environments (day-2 operations, troubleshooting, maintenance).

Experience operating

OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF)

and supporting storage services for Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms.

Strong experience with storage operations, including

monitoring, capacity planning, upgrades, expansion, and component replacement .

Proven ability to troubleshoot complex storage issues across

software, Linux, networks, and physical hardware .

Working knowledge of storage hardware and performance considerations, including

HDD, SSD, NVMe, HBA, firmware , and storage-network behaviour.

Experience supporting block and shared-file storage using

Ceph CSI, RBD, and CephFS , including PV-related troubleshooting.

Experience benchmarking storage workloads and analysing

performance bottlenecks

(latency/throughput, saturation points, noisy neighbour symptoms).

Experience in incident handling and operational discipline, including

on-call/incident response , triage, and RCA practices.

Automation/scripting capability using

Ansible, Python, shell , or equivalent tools to reduce manual operations and improve consistency.

Strong documentation skills to maintain

runbooks, recovery procedures, and operational standards .

Preferred Skills

Experience with

backup, snapshots, replication, and disaster recovery (DR)

operations for Ceph/ODF-backed platforms.

Experience building or improving observability for storage platforms (dashboards, alert tuning, actionable SLO/SLA signals).

Familiarity with platform/SRE practices such as reliability engineering, change management, and continuous improvement in production environments.

Exposure to Kubernetes/OpenShift platform operations beyond storage (helpful for cross-team troubleshooting and incident coordination).