Storage Platform Engineer (Ceph / GPFS) (m/f/d) Ref. No. 26-82195

In this role you will operate and evolve Terma and EUMETSAT’s software-defined storage platforms that underpin mission-critical workloads in a hybrid, container-based environment. You will work with the MIC infrastructure to deliver reliable, scalable, and automated storage services for the ground-segment operations. You’ll address performance, resilience, and multi-cloud storage needs, contributing to disaster recovery and AI-assisted operations. This is a technically hands-on, cross-functional position in a mission-driven team.

• training and personal development
• international and cosmopolitan working atmosphere
• competitive salary
• extra-legal benefits
• full-time contract
• opportunity to work at the customer site in Darmstadt or remotely

• Administer and support software-defined storage platforms (Ceph, IBM Spectrum Scale / GPFS, MooseFS)
• Monitor, investigate and optimise performance of storage subsystems
• Provide and manage persistent storage integration for Kubernetes workloads (Ceph, Rook-Ceph, CSI drivers)
• Administer SAN and software-defined storage, including zoning, provisioning and performance tuning
• Support evolution and lifecycle management of in-house software-defined storage and multi-cloud storage services
• Contribute to backup, resilience and disaster-recovery design and testing

• Experience implementing software-based storage solutions (Ceph, IBM Spectrum Scale / GPFS, MooseFS)
• Experience with persistent storage integration for Kubernetes (Ceph, Rook-Ceph, CSI drivers)
• Experience with SAN and software-defined storage administration, including zoning, provisioning and performance optimisation
• Experience with enterprise backup and disaster-recovery solutions
• Advanced Linux administration expertise and automation scripting (Bash, Python)
• Strong understanding of networking concepts and protocols (TCP/IP, NFS, SSH)
• Knowledge of containerisation and Kubernetes orchestration is an advantage
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline with at least 5 years of relevant experience
• Effective written and verbal communication in English
• Ability to document and maintain technical baselines, operational procedures and architecture diagrams
• Knowledge of ITIL service management processes (incident, change, problem management)
• Willingness to participate in standby / on-call rotation and, occasionally, in weekend/public-holiday/late-night interventions

• Problem solving
• Good analytical skills
• High degree of interpersonal awareness
• Ceph
• IBM Spectrum Scale / GPFS
• MooseFS