Role & responsibilities

Role Overview

Storage Administrator L2 with strong expertise in Ceph Storage Administration and good understanding of SAN Storage technologies. The candidate will be responsible for managing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and supporting enterprise storage infrastructure ensuring high availability, performance, scalability, and operational stability across production environments.

The ideal candidate should possess strong troubleshooting skills, hands-on operational experience, and the ability to work in enterprise datacenter or cloud infrastructure environments.

Key Responsibilities

- Administer and support Ceph storage clusters (MON, OSD, MDS, RGW, CephFS, RBD).
- Monitor cluster health, performance, capacity, and availability.
- Troubleshoot Ceph issues including OSD failures, PG degradation, recovery, rebalancing and latency issues.
- Perform cluster expansion, upgrades, balancing, and maintenance activities.
- Positive understanding of SAN storage architecture and operational concepts with working knowledge of FC connectivity, SAN switches, zoning, multipathing, and LUN provisioning/masking.
- Support storage provisioning, decommissioning, and performance optimization.
- Strong Linux administration skills (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu).
- Troubleshoot filesystem, disk, server, and storage connectivity & performance issues.
- Coordinate with server, virtualization, cloud, network,



and application teams during incidents and changes.
- Work with infrastructure, network, virtualization, and application teams for operational support.
- Support incident, problem, and change management activities.

Required Skills

Primary Skills

- Ceph Storage Administration
- CephFS / RBD / RGW
- Distributed Storage Concepts
- Linux Administration

Secondary Skills

- SAN Storage Concepts
- FC Zoning & Multipathing
- LUN Provisioning & Masking
- RAID / Filesystem Concepts
- iSCSI / NFS / S3

Good to Have

- Kubernetes/OpenShift Storage Integration
- OpenStack with Ceph
- Shell/Python/Ansible Automation
- Prometheus/Grafana Monitoring

Qualifications

- BE / B-Tech / M-Tech / MSC / MCA or equivalent
- Certification in storage technologies (HPE or similar) preferred

Preferred

- Experience in data centre or enterprise storage environments
- Familiarity with remote monitoring and support processes
- Knowledge of ITSM tools (ServiceNow or similar)
- ITIL certification (preferred)

Key Competencies

- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to work in high-pressure, mission-critical environments
- Excellent communication and coordination skills
- Strong documentation and process adherence
- Proactive approach to system reliability and performance optimization

Interested candidates please reach on [email protected]

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