Description:
Akkodis is seeking a Ceph Administrator for a contract position with our client in New York. This role is a hybrid onsite in New York, NY.
In this role, you will assist with the implementation and operation of an on-premise Ceph storage cluster, configuring services such as the Ceph file system and RADOS object gateway, investigating performance issues, and planning future hardware acquisition to grow the existing cluster.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assisting with the deployment and configuration of CephFS
- Monitoring for issues and performance concerns with the file systems, clients, or the
- underlying infrastructure
- Integrating Ceph with the existing backup solution.
- Advising and monitoring the integration of the file system with HPC compute machines
- running Linux
- Writing documentation for the cluster and its setup both for internal use (for cluster
- administrators) and external use (for end-users, researchers using the file system for various research activities)
- Analyzing researchers use cases and help them adjust their workflow or tune the system
- towards their goals.
- Helping to expand the storage cluster to support future use cases by growing its capacity and offering storage to a wider audience
Required Skills:
- At least one year experience with Ceph and the Ceph file system is required.
- Advanced knowledge of Linux system administration and performance monitoring is required.
- Excellent verbal, analytical, project management and technical problem-solving skills.
- Ability to communicate technical information to a non-technical audience.
- Strong work ethic to collaborate as a group, but also can carry a project to its end with minimal direction on your own.
- Knowledge of networking concepts such as the OSI model, DNS, firewalls, proxies, load balancing is required.