Job Description


Job Overview

  • Job ID:

    J55305

  • Job Title:

    Senior Storage Engineer

  • Location:

    Portland,, OR

  • Duration:

    10 Months + Extension

  • Domain Exposure:

    Material

  • Client:

    To Be Discussed Later

  • Employment Type:

    W-2, 1099, C2C

  • Work Authorization:

    US Citizen, Green Card, H-1B, OPT-EAD, CPT, Other

Job Title: Senior Storage Engineer

Location: Portland, OR

Duration: 10 months 

Bill Rate: $71/hour (C2C)

Job Type: W-2, 1099, C2C

Client: To Be Discussed Later

Work Authorization: US Citizen, Green Card, OPT-EAD, CPT, H-1B, H4-EAD, Other

Job Summary:

Looking for an experienced Senior Storage Engineer with strong expertise in Ceph, Kubernetes storage, and high-performance storage optimization.

Key Required Skills:

  • Ceph Storage: 5+ years of production experience with Ceph, including Rook/Ceph, RBD, CephFS, RGW, BlueStore, CRUSH maps, and storage pool optimization.
  • Kubernetes Storage: Hands-on experience with bare-metal Kubernetes/K3s, CSI, StorageClasses, PV/PVC, VolumeSnapshots, and StatefulSets.
  • Storage Performance Optimization: Strong knowledge of SSD/NVMe tuning, IOPS, throughput, latency, fio, and RADOS benchmarking.
  • Large-Scale Data Ingestion: Experience optimizing Ceph for large datasets, media files, and databases using RGW/S3, RBD, and CephFS.
  • Storage Architecture: Ability to design scalable, reliable storage solutions and evaluate technologies such as Longhorn, OpenEBS, and local persistent volumes.
  • Failure Recovery & Resilience: Experience with rebuilds, backfill, recovery testing, replication, erasure coding, and storage failure analysis.
  • Linux & Troubleshooting: Strong Linux storage expertise, including LVM, XFS/ext4, multipath, iostat, blktrace, perf, and storage networking.
  • Automation & Scripting: Experience with Bash, Python, or Go, along with Helm, Ansible, or GitOps tools.
  • Security & Backup: Knowledge of encryption at rest, key management, Kubernetes backup solutions, and disaster recovery.

    Good to Have    : Tiered storage (NVMe + HDD), Ceph multi-site, RBD mirroring, stretch clusters, Velero/Kasten, CKA, or Red Hat Ceph Storage certification.

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