Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. They are seeking a highly skilled Storage Operations Engineer to build, maintain, and operate Vultr Cloud Storage environments, particularly focusing on software-defined scale-out storage systems like 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
• 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
• Commitment matters to Vultr! 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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