The Consulting team is looking for a Senior Consultant and Storage Expert to join us in Israel. In this role, you will be the subject matter expert for designing, deploying, and managing resilient, high-performance, software-defined storage solutions. Your primary focus will be on Ceph and OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF). You'll lead the hands-on, on-site implementation of our storage portfolio, deeply integrating it with container platforms like OpenShift and automating its lifecycle with Ansible Automation Platform. You'll play a pivotal role in modernizing our customers' enterprise data strategies, ensuring our storage solutions are practical, robust, and scalable. You'll work to gain a deep understanding of customer data infrastructure and business drivers, making strategic recommendations to resolve their most critical data storage, protection, and management challenges. As a Senior Storage Consultant, you will empower customers to build a unified and scalable data foundation for their cloud-native and traditional enterprise applications.
What You Will Do:
Serve as a subject matter expert at the customer site, addressing technical, architectural, and strategic requirements related to software-defined storage (SDS) and data management.
Understand industry best practices for storage architecture, data protection, and disaster recovery, and align them with our policies, procedures, and values.
Demonstrate expert judgment in selecting the best methods and Ceph-based architectures to meet customer workload and performance requirements.
Lead the implementation and integration of our storage solutions, primarily Ceph Storage and OpenShift Data Foundation.
Collaborate with project and customer team members to meet timelines and goals, providing specific guidance on storage deployment and consumption.
Develop comprehensive project documentation, including architectural diagrams, configuration details, and operational runbooks for storage environments.
Mentor and share your deep knowledge of Ceph and modern storage principles with customers and internal teams.
Define and promote automation techniques and DevOps processes to improve the storage life cycle, including cluster deployment, expansion, monitoring, and day-2 operations.
Lead efforts in storage performance tuning, capacity planning, and troubleshooting complex issues within large-scale Ceph clusters.
Requirements: 4+ years of hands-on experience and advanced knowledge of Ceph, including a deep understanding of its core components (RADOS, RGW, RBD, CephFS) and architecture.
Proven experience in designing and implementing large-scale, software-defined storage solutions, particularly for cloud-native and virtualized environments.
Advanced knowledge of OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) or its upstream equivalent, Rook.
Solid experience with OpenShift or underlying components like Kubernetes, including how stateful applications consume persistent storage.
Deep knowledge of Enterprise Linux, especially in the context of tuning and managing storage nodes.
Ability to communicate value, progress, and metrics of complex storage projects to required stakeholders in both technical and business audiences.
Ability to study on your own, learn quickly, and put new ideas into practice.
Passion for open source, software, tooling, and automation.
Good communication skills, verbal and written, in English and Hebrew.
Availability to travel up to 10% of the time.
Security Classification will be a plus.
Other Skills That Will Be Considered a Plus
Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ceph Storage Administration or similar certifications.
Experience with data migration methodologies and tools for moving data to Ceph-based platforms.
Working experience with DevOps and agile processes.
Experience using public cloud storage technologies and providers like Amazon S3/EBS or Azure Blob/Disk.
This position is open to all candidates.