Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Ceph Storage

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United Kingdom.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the reliability, performance, scalability, and capacity of extensive Ceph environments that facilitate object, block, and file storage workloads in production.

• Identify and resolve intricate issues in distributed systems, including recovery/backfill events, OSD instability, PG imbalance, storage latency, and RGW performance bottlenecks.

• Create and implement automation using Python, Shell, SaltStack, and Ansible to minimize operational challenges and enhance platform resilience at scale.

• Establish and refine observability metrics through SLIs, SLOs, PromQL, LogQL, Grafana dashboards, and proactive alerting methodologies.

• Spearhead storage lifecycle projects, including cluster expansions, hardware refreshes, software upgrades, OpenStack integrations, and large-scale migration endeavors.

• Ensure reliability and foster operational excellence throughout GoDaddy’s global storage ecosystem.

• Participate in architectural decision-making and collaborate with seasoned Ceph engineers.

• Provide support for infrastructure that caters to hosting, applications, internal systems, as well as AI and HPC workloads.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience managing large-scale Linux infrastructure, with substantial expertise in supporting distributed storage systems in production settings.

• At least 2 years of practical experience in Ceph administration, encompassing OSD, MON, MDS, and RGW operations, CRUSH map management, pool design, placement groups, and performance troubleshooting.

• Deep understanding of Linux internals, storage architecture, networking, filesystems, block devices, and performance evaluation under production workloads.

• Experience in developing operational automation and tools using Python, Shell, and configuration management systems such as Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, or Chef.

• Demonstrated incident response skills, including production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, postmortem documentation, and implementation of sustainable corrective measures.

• Advanced knowledge of Ceph, including RGW Multisite, CephFS, RBD Mirroring, erasure coding, and large-scale cluster architecture.

• Familiarity with integrating storage solutions with OpenStack or Kubernetes storage technologies.

• Knowledge of Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Grafana, and enterprise monitoring frameworks.

• Experience in planning and executing petabyte-scale storage migrations, capacity expansion initiatives, and management of storage hardware lifecycle.

• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or storage projects will be considered a plus.

• No specific educational qualifications are mandated.

🏝️ Benefits

• Paid time off

• Retirement savings options, including pension schemes

• Eligibility for bonuses/incentives

• Equity grants

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Competitive health benefits

• Parental leave

• Employee Resource Groups

• Remote work flexibility

• Support from the recruiting team throughout the application process