CEPH Storage Administrator

• Around 5-6 years experience in Unix Storage and network administration, deployments and management of reasonably large Ceph clusters, exposure to cluster architectures with application of best practices
• Hands-on work in implementing Ceph configurations for data availability (replication, erasure-coding), scalability, security, data distribution and recovery
• Good understanding of Ceph internals RADOS, Crush maps and alogrithims, Ceph APIs and scripts
• Deployment, configuration of Ceph services and access mechanisms for RBD, CFS and S3 compatible object store.
• Self-driven, learning aptitude, ability to work in small teams and operate independently, reviews available data and makes quick decisions.

Responsibilities:

• Planning deployment of Ceph clusters with appropriate system configuration, networking infrastructure and large storage capacities in a data center
• Monitoring of Ceph clusters for optimal operations. Review and optimize dashboards, setup alerting for critical Ceph events
• Setup and test RBD consumption for availability and performance, RGW for Object store, Ceph Filesystems, NAS/NFS services
• Management of clusters: Upgrades of Ceph components, rebalancing of PGs, Objects, change storage capacities, resize cluster configurations without impact to operations.
• Assess security of data implement practices for cloud compliance requirements of cluster
• Working with clusters in multi-site configurations; review, understand and implement replication strategies for data availability in different zones