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
Company Overview
Vultr is an AI cloud infrastructure platform offering latest generation NVIDIA GPUs and AMD CPUs and GPUs across 32 worldwide regions It was founded in 2014, and is headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://www.vultr.com.