Marko P.
Senior Proxmox VE Engineer — KVM & Ceph
Available9+ years of experience · Croatia
Proxmox VE Engineer — KVM & Ceph with 9 years in production systems, focused on Proxmox VE and KVM.
Languages: Croatian, English C1
/ TEAMS · Proxmox VE Engineering
Describe the Proxmox VE version, KVM estate, Ceph or ZFS storage, networking, backup and HA requirements before sourcing migration or operations expertise.
2,000+ engineers in our active talent network · Regional recruiters
/ SYSTEM STACK
KVM · QEMU · LXC
Corosync · Quorum · HA
Ceph · ZFS · Backup
Bridges · VLAN · SDN
PVE · PBS · Monitoring
/ AVAILABLE TO HIRE
Profiles show the experience we can source. Individual candidate availability is confirmed after enquiry.
Senior Proxmox VE Engineer — KVM & Ceph
Available9+ years of experience · Croatia
Proxmox VE Engineer — KVM & Ceph with 9 years in production systems, focused on Proxmox VE and KVM.
Languages: Croatian, English C1
Senior Proxmox VE Engineer — KVM & Ceph
Inquire availability12+ years of experience · Poland
Proxmox VE Engineer — KVM & Ceph with 12 years in production systems, focused on KVM and Linux.
Languages: Polish, English B2+
Mid-level Proxmox VE Engineer — KVM & Ceph
Available3+ years of experience · Romania
Proxmox VE Engineer — KVM & Ceph with 3 years in production systems, focused on Linux and Proxmox VE.
Languages: Romanian, English B2+
Mid+ Proxmox VE Engineer — KVM & Ceph
Inquire availability7+ years of experience · Poland
Proxmox VE Engineer — KVM & Ceph with 7 years in production systems, focused on Proxmox VE and KVM.
Languages: Polish, English B2+
/ Specialist sourcing
Describe the Proxmox VE version, KVM estate, Ceph or ZFS storage, networking, backup and HA requirements before sourcing migration or operations expertise.
Assess a real hypervisor migration or failed node recovery, including rollback, storage consistency, clustering and workload interruption.
Role-specific sourcing, not a promise of current candidate availability.
/ Engineering teams
Our demonstrated Ceph specialist sourcing experience provides a relevant adjacent capability for Proxmox environments using Ceph storage. We assess Proxmox cluster operations, storage integration and virtualization migrations against the requirements of your infrastructure.
/ Technical specializations
Cluster quorum, storage design, workload moves and recoverability are central to the production Proxmox role.
VM lifecycle, QEMU/KVM, CPU and memory allocation, templates, guest agents and host operations.
Corosync/quorum, HA groups, node lifecycle, failure recovery and maintenance planning.
RBD shared storage, ZFS, storage pools, replication, capacity and Ceph cluster interfaces.
Linux bridges, bonds, VLAN, SDN, firewall policies, overlay/network troubleshooting.
Proxmox Backup Server, snapshots, restore rehearsal, RPO/RTO and consistency under load.
VMware-to-Proxmox transition planning, IaC/API workflows, monitoring, updates and rolling changes.
/ Project scenarios
Design quorum, HA behavior, node capacity and physical network assumptions.
Review storage failure domains, latency, OSD capacity and RBD workload patterns.
Test guest compatibility, sequencing, downtime, storage and rollback paths.
Implement PBS/restore plans and operational drills tied to business recovery goals.
/ Practical evaluation
We investigate evidence of real cluster operations, failed-node handling and workload moves rather than dashboard familiarity.
Can the engineer explain corosync, split-brain risks, vote counts and HA fencing?
How do they size Ceph/ZFS, read I/O symptoms, plan snapshots and handle degraded storage?
Can they identify networking, storage, guest-agent and rollback risks in migrations?
What backup validation, change control, permissions and monitoring have they owned?
/ Sourcing process
PVE version, nodes, hypervisor mix, network, storage, HA and backup requirements.
Search relevant Linux/virtualization talent and regional engineering recruiters.
Review migrations, outages, cluster topology, Ceph/ZFS and PBS experience.
Agree on access, planned maintenance, timezone and engineer engagement.
Profiles, availability and engagement terms are confirmed for each request.
/ Questions
Yes. Describe whether Ceph runs inside the Proxmox cluster or as independent storage, and which RBD, replication and capacity duties matter.
That can be part of the sourcing brief. We evaluate experience with assessment, guest compatibility, networking, storage cutover and rollback.
Yes. Specify backup windows, data consistency, restore testing, retention and recovery objectives.
Yes. We can source individual platform specialists or complementary Linux, Ceph and networking engineers depending on the operating model.
/ Onectus · TEAMS
Tell us the technology, production responsibilities, experience level and working model. We'll activate the appropriate engineering sourcing channels.