Ceph Cloud Storage Engineer

Software Engineer - Cloud Storage Solutions
Walmart Global Tech
Reston, VA or Sunnyvale, CA / Remote
Responsibilities
• Design, implement, optimize private cloud-based Cloud Storage solutions using Ceph
• Build, tune, troubleshoot block and object storage systems in high availability Ceph storage clusters
• Design automation for storage optimization and other processes on private cloud platforms
• Enable Application teams to follow best practices to deploy on Cloud Platforms and optimize Storage spend and improve efficiency and performance based on utilization with Ceph
• Create and maintain technical documentation for operational readiness
• Design and maintain cloud storage best practices
• Become a solid contributor on our team, and build, extend and maintain some of the key infrastructure that powers our Private Cloud platform
• Provide troubleshooting expertise for storage performance and other issues
• Develop and integrate provisioning and lifecycle tools for storage services components
Qualifications
• 2+ years of experience supporting large scale, highly available, production Cloud Storage deployments with Ceph
• Strong familiarity with any combination of the following: OpenStack/Kubernetes/Rook with Ceph as an underlying storage solution
• Experience in programming, scripting and development
o Python or Shell Scripting
• Experience with Linux Administration and System Troubleshooting
• Networking concepts and administration
o TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs, Load balancing
• Experience using source control systems (git)
• Experience in configuration management tools like Ansible/Puppet/Chef
• Experience with Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
• Experience in Architecting infra solutions for applications
• Experience with monitoring, reporting tools and data analytics
• Good understanding of clustered/distributed systems
• Apply best practice and team standards while meeting service level objectives
• Experience working with cloud deployments (scaling, resiliency, load balancing etc) and solid understanding of Service Monitoring, KPI, SLA, Disaster Recovery
• Deep experience with the Linux ecosystem, automation of common tasks, and configuration of systems monitoring tools
• Experience with capacity/performance management, monitoring and tuning
• Experience with firewalls, VPN, routing, switching, load balancers, monitoring, security and DNS
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS or similar field of study OR work equivalent