Senior Storage Engineer – Ceph / Distributed Storage

About the role

1984 Hosting is seeking an experienced Senior Storage Engineer to design, deploy and operate distributed storage systems for its existing services and a new public cloud in Iceland. You will work closely with Linux, networking and cloud teams to shape the storage architecture.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy and operate Ceph environments, including block, object and file storage.
• Develop failure domains, replication and erasure‑coding strategies and perform capacity planning.
• Carry out performance testing, optimisation and troubleshooting of complex storage incidents.
• Design and test disaster‑recovery procedures and improve monitoring and alerting.
• Automate recurring operational tasks and collaborate with virtualization and networking engineers.

Required profile

• Hands‑on experience with production Ceph clusters (RBD, CephFS, RGW).
• Strong understanding of distributed storage architecture, replication, recovery and performance tuning.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve disk, node and network failures in production environments.

Required skills

• Ceph (RBD, CephFS, RGW)
• Linux, filesystems and block storage
• SSD and NVMe storage
• LINSTOR / DRBD (desired)
• S3‑compatible object storage
• Kubernetes CSI (desired)
• KVM / QEMU
• Apache CloudStack or similar IaaS platforms
• Ansible, Terraform
• Prometheus, Grafana
• Python, Shell scripting
• High‑speed Ethernet