7 days ago
Remote, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, performance, scalability, and capacity of large-scale production Ceph environments supporting RADOS, RGW, RBD, and CephFS workloads.
- Diagnose and resolve distributed-systems issues involving recovery and backfill events, OSD instability, PG imbalance, storage latency, and RGW performance bottlenecks.
- Build operational automation with Python, Shell, SaltStack, and Ansible to reduce toil and improve resilience.
- Define and improve observability using SLIs, SLOs, PromQL, LogQL, Grafana dashboards, and proactive alerting.
- Lead storage lifecycle initiatives including cluster expansions, hardware refreshes, software upgrades, OpenStack integrations, and large-scale migrations.
- Handle production incident response, root-cause analysis, postmortems, and durable corrective actions.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience operating large-scale Linux infrastructure with significant production distributed-storage experience.
- At least 2 years of hands-on Ceph administration, including OSD, MON, MDS, RGW, CRUSH maps, pool design, placement groups, and performance troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of Linux internals, storage architecture, networking, filesystems, block devices, and production performance analysis.
- Experience developing operational automation and tooling with Python, Shell, and configuration-management platforms such as Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, or Chef.
- Advanced Ceph expertise, including RGW Multisite, CephFS, RBD Mirroring, erasure coding, or large-scale cluster design, is preferred.
- Experience integrating storage with OpenStack services such as Cinder, Nova, Neutron, and Swift, or with Kubernetes storage technologies such as CSI, StorageClasses, and Rook, is preferred.
- Familiarity with Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Grafana, and enterprise monitoring architectures is preferred.
- Experience with petabyte-scale migrations, capacity expansion, storage hardware lifecycle management, or open-source infrastructure contributions is preferred.
Benefits
- Remote work from home, with occasional visits to a GoDaddy office for team events or meetings.
- Benefits may include paid time off, retirement savings, bonus or incentive eligibility, equity grants, employee stock purchase plan participation, health benefits, and parental leave.
- Benefits vary by role and location and are reviewed during the interview process.
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About GoDaddy
GoDaddy provides domain registration, DNS, web hosting, website and commerce tools, security, email, and payments for small businesses and web professionals. It sells these as subscriptions and add-on services, including a website builder, marketing tools, and a domain aftermarket. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Tempe, Arizona, the NYSE-listed company serves over 20 million customers and manages tens of millions of domains globally.