Senior DevOps Engineer – Storage
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Senior DevOps Engineer operating high-performance Kubernetes storage for Mirantis, a Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company. Automating NFS, Linux, and air-gapped storage platforms for GPU workloads at scale.
Responsibilities:
- Integrate NFS-based high-performance storage into Kubernetes clusters via CSI, storage classes, and persistent volumes
- Tune NFS mount options, nconnect/RDMA, Linux client, and network settings for high-throughput, low-latency GPU/AI workloads
- Deploy and operate storage services and operators; manage capacity, quotas, snapshots, and lifecycle
- Configure and optimize Linux systems for storage workloads, including drivers, file systems, networking, and kernel parameters
- Deliver storage integration for k0s-based Kubernetes through Cluster API and K0rdent management/child cluster topologies
- Operate storage in fully disconnected air-gapped environments, including Harbor artifact/mirror connectivity and PKI/TLS considerations
- Automate storage provisioning and configuration with Terraform/OpenTofu and ArgoCD or Flux GitOps pipelines
- Build monitoring, alerting, and observability for storage performance, capacity, and health
- Diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and scaling issues across the storage stack
- Set operational standards and communicate across teams
Requirements:
- 7+ years of experience in SRE or infrastructure operations
- 5+ years of building and operating distributed production storage systems at scale
- Hands-on experience with high-performance storage solutions including VAST, Weka, DDN, and PowerScale
- Linux and Kubernetes storage fundamentals, including NFS and CSI
- Deep Linux storage and networking knowledge, including kernel and NFS-client layers
- Infrastructure-as-code and GitOps experience
- Preferred: bare-metal host provisioning, raw disk/hardware layout, and physical server storage configurations
- Preferred: hands-on experience with VAST and/or Dell PowerScale
- Preferred: GPUDirect Storage and RDMA/RoCE data paths
- Preferred: Mirantis K0rdent stack, K0rdent Enterprise, K0rdent AI, k0s, MKE, and Cluster API
- Preferred: Ceph, object/S3 storage backends, and CSI driver operations
- Preferred: sovereign or high-security air-gapped environments experience
Benefits:
- Professional development and training
- Attend conferences and working groups
- Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks
- Competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan
- Remote work arrangement

















