Posted 24 months ago
Staff Storage Engineer
@ hireVouch
Remote in Canada
Overview
hireVouch is hiring a Staff Operations Engineer to design, build and operate a planet-scale, resilient storage layer for its Cloud Platform division. The role centres on Ceph storage, automation for logging, monitoring and maintenance, and senior technical leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and operate a planet-scale storage layer
- Develop automation for logging, monitoring and maintenance
- Optimize Hadoop, Spark, Aerospike and Kafka systems
- Participate in security system designs and mentor junior teammates
- Own large projects and drive process improvements
Requirements summary:
- Experience with Ceph and Rook at scale
- Experience with IaC tools such as Salt, Ansible, Puppet or Terraform
- Experience with storage-level replication
- Strong capacity planning, disaster recovery and monitoring experience
- Strong facilitation and prioritization skills
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- Employer posting date
- 2024-11-13
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-10
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-05
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
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Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the often-employed aggressive methods typical of the recruitment industry, our focus is placed largely on referral-based networking. Getting it right really matters to us. Let us leverage our network of talent that has already been vouched for by leading professionals in the industry to help your business grow. Services Offered Contingency and Retained Search Here at hireVouch we focus on sourcing best-in-class candidates for rewarding positions in Canada and the US. We have extensive expertise in Contingency, Retained and Temporary placement, primarily within the IT sector. On-Site Search Assistance We have a trusted network of HR and search professionals who can provide on-site search services to help fulfill immediate needs as well as help train internal staff in finding the highest quality talent Company Marketing Strategy We know how competitive the job market can truly be and how important it is to have a strategy to attract talent. At hireVouch we have extensive expertise in helping companies better market themselves. We can provide the tools and knowledge that will assist you in making your business a highly attractive place to work. Developing a company marketing strategy is key to hiring the talent you need to grow.
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- 215 Spadina Avenue, 4th Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5T 2C7, CA
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Our Edge Hiring and retaining skilled talent is paramount for your company’s success. Finding the right people – who have the right skills and right personality fit – can be incredibly challenging in today’s job market. Here at hireVouch we can help you acquire the highest calibre candidates through the relationships we have formed over more than a decade. Our approach is an ethical one. Rather than use the…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Staffing and Recruiting |
| Company size | 2-10 employees |
| Headquarters | Toronto, Ontario |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Year founded | 2016 |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 175 |
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We’re looking for a Staff Operations Engineer – Ceph Storage to support our storage team in the Cloud Platform division. Our scale spans the globe, our transactions happen 24x7 in our global data centers, and every second that passes millions of requests are evaluated across our exchange. In order to achieve our mission, global efficiency and reliability are absolutely key, as every millisecond quite literally counts in our business.
What We’re Looking For:
- Facilitator: It’s essential that you can relay information and ideas effectively both within and across different teams. While we place a huge premium on technical skill, we value just as much your ability to work with other people
- Adaptable: Our industry moves fast and we need you to keep up and adapt. Acting as an Operations Engineer, you have the ability to prioritize tasks, often against competing scope and timelines
- Technical: A strong foundation in Operations, and experience in solving complex problems and building solutions (including CI/CD, real-time monitoring, production issues, etc.)
- Rigorous: We design and manage massive, globally distributed systems that handle billions of transactions a day - your approach and solutions need to be thorough, scalable and ironclad.
Here’s What You’ll be Doing:
- Design, build and operate a highly scalable, performant and resilient storage layer that operates on a planet scale
- Developing and maintaining automation to handle logging, monitoring and maintenance of the storage layer
- Work with different technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Aerospike, Kafka etc to enhance and optimize existing systems.
- Participate in complex security system designs and mentor junior teammates
- Act as a senior contributor to the team who takes ownership of large projects and components
- Champions improvements to processes and procedures for the team and for the division.
- Influence the team’s direction and foster accountability, trust, and focus on goals.
- Live the values and promote those internally and externally.
Here's What You Need:
- Experience with building, maintaining and troubleshooting open-source distributed storage solutions such as Ceph and storage orchestrators such as Rook, in a highly automated environment and at scale.
- Experience with IaC and configuration management tools such as Salt, Ansible, Puppet or Terraform.
- Experience with storage level replication technologies.
- Strong experience with capacity planning, disaster recovery and monitoring
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