Senior Ceph Engineer | Kubernetes & Rook (m/f/d, Full-Time, 100% Remote – Work from Anywhere) in GERMANY

Cloudification is a Berlin-based cloud consulting company helping organizations around the globe modernize their infrastructure using open-source technologies like OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Ceph.

We specialize in building private cloud solutions that give businesses full control—without vendor lock-in. Our team works 100% remotely and believes in strong collaboration, autonomy, and staying at the cutting edge of cloud infrastructure.

We’re now hiring an experienced Ceph Engineer to join our growing distributed team and play a key role in the design and operations of the storage infrastructure of our cloud platform - c12n.cloud

About the Role:

As a Ceph Engineer, you’ll be responsible for building, scaling, and maintaining highly available Ceph clusters, integrated with Kubernetes via Rook. You’ll work on real production environments used by customers across industries, ensuring the performance, reliability, and resilience of their data storage.

You’ll collaborate closely with other engineers, DevOps specialists, and architects to deliver secure, scalable, and future-proof infrastructure solutions — all using open-source tools and platforms.

What You’ll Do:

• Architect, upgrade and maintain tens of Ceph clusters with Rook.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using Ansible and Helm.
• Monitor and troubleshoot performance, availability, and scaling issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement best practices in cloud-native infrastructure.

What You Bring:

• 5 + years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering
• Deep hands-on experience with Ceph in production environments at PB scale
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and particularly of Rook operator
• Excellent Linux system administration skills and scripting abilities
• Familiarity with observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana
• Fluency in English and strong communication skills
• Bonus: Experience with OpenStack, contributing to open-source projects, or working with cloud-native CI/CD pipelines

What we offer:

• High degree of autonomy and flexible working hours that adapt to your lifestyle.
• 100% remote work – live and work from anywhere in the world (with optional business trips to Berlin)
• 26 paid vacation days per year  + Christmas and New Year’s Eve off
• Option for a coworking membership in your city.
• A MacBook Pro and hardware or software you need to be productive.
• Be part of a company that contributes to the open-source ecosystem and is recognized by the OpenInfra Foundation.

How to Apply

We’re excited to meet talented engineers and we are looking forward to receiving your application!

Apply now with your CV or drop us a question to careers@cloudification.io

At Cloudification we believe in equal opportunity and we value diversity. We do not allow discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status.