Storage Operations Engineer

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🕒 February 25

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Vultr

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2014

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🤝 B2B

🔧 Hardware

💰 $329M Debt Financing - Vultr on 2025-06

Artificial Intelligence • B2B • Hardware

Vultr is a global cloud infrastructure provider offering on-demand virtual machines, bare-metal servers, GPU-accelerated instances, managed databases, object and block storage, Kubernetes, and networking services. The platform emphasizes AI and HPC workloads with a broad selection of AMD and NVIDIA GPUs, fast networking, and 32+ data center regions, plus a marketplace of deployable apps and developer-friendly APIs. Vultr targets developers and businesses seeking affordable, scalable, and compliant cloud compute and storage alternatives to hyperscalers.

📋 Description

• 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

🎯 Requirements

• 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) • Proficiency with the following: • 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 • Effective Communication skills • Excellent time management skills • The ability to manage work independently • Strong collaboration skills

🏖️ 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 • 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