Lead Ceph Storage Engineer

As a Lead Ceph Storage Engineer, you will be responsible for providing technical leadership to a team of Ceph Storage Engineers. Your role will involve architecting, deploying, and managing scalable Ceph solutions. You will play a key part in planning complex, multi-datacenter Ceph infrastructures with high availability and performance. Additionally, you will oversee installation, tuning, upgrades, and lifecycle management of Ceph clusters across different environments. Key Responsibilities: - Lead and mentor a team of Ceph Storage Engineers - Architect, deploy, and manage scalable Ceph solutions - Plan complex, multi-datacenter Ceph infrastructures - Oversee installation, tuning, upgrades, and lifecycle management of Ceph clusters - Benchmark and optimize Ceph storage performance - Develop custom tools and automate tasks using Python - Contribute to the Ceph open-source community code, bug fixes, enhancements - Build robust monitoring solutions and resolve critical issues swiftly - Design resilient backup/DR strategies and ensure security best practices compliance - Collaborate with infra, dev, and network teams to integrate Ceph into larger infrastructure stacks Qualifications Required: - 8 to 9 years of experience in Ceph storage engineering - Proficiency in Python scripting for automation tasks - Experience in planning and deploying multi-datacenter Ceph infrastructures - Strong knowledge of Ceph storage performance optimization and capacity planning - Prior experience in contributing to open-source communities, specifically Ceph - Ability to design resilient backup/DR strategies and ensure security best practices adherence If there are any additional details about the company in the job description, please provide them for a more comprehensive understanding.,