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OpenStack Engineer building and operating private sovereign cloud platforms for Software Mind’s enterprise clients. Deploying infrastructure, networking, monitoring, and automation across production environments.
Responsibilities:
- Join an internal OpenStack team building and operating private and sovereign cloud platforms for enterprise clients in Western Europe
- Install and configure OpenStack components with Kolla-Ansible according to approved designs
- Prepare infrastructure nodes, including operating system, KVM virtualization, container runtime, network interfaces and storage access
- Configure OVN tenant networks, VLAN provider networks, Cinder volume types and boot-from-volume scenarios
- Deploy monitoring and logging with Prometheus, exporters, Alertmanager, Grafana, Fluentd and OpenSearch
- Handle second-line incidents and service requests within agreed service levels
- Execute patching, node replacement, virtual machine evacuation and upgrade support
- Maintain configuration repositories through merge requests and promote changes between environments
- Automate repeatable work with Ansible and CI pipelines
- Participate in the on-call rotation
Requirements:
- At least 3 years administering Linux in production, including operating or implementing OpenStack
- Day to day operation of Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Glance, Cinder, Placement and Horizon, including projects, quotas, flavors and images
- Ability to diagnose failed instance, volume and network operations using the OpenStack CLI and service logs
- Understanding of API, scheduler and agent components, message queue and state database
- Experience with an OpenStack deployment framework, preferably Kolla-Ansible, and services running as containers
- KVM and libvirt troubleshooting experience for compute nodes
- Practical Ansible and Git skills
- Networking fundamentals: VLANs, routing, NAT, filtering, overlay networks, and tenant versus provider networks
- English at B2 level for technical documentation and daily client contact
- Additional skills: Kolla-Ansible, OpenStack-Ansible or TripleO
- OVN or Open vSwitch, and enterprise storage over NFS or iSCSI
- Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere or another virtualization platform, and experience with VMware migrations
- Python for operational tooling and API integrations, or Terraform and Kubernetes
- Exposure to telco workloads or performance tuning such as SR-IOV, DPDK, CPU pinning and huge pages
- Certified OpenStack Administrator, or certifications in Linux, networking or cloud
Benefits:
- Flexible employment and remote work
- International projects with leading global clients
- International business trips
- Language classes
- Internal & external training
- Private healthcare and insurance
- Multisport card
- Well-being initiatives
- Mentoring from senior engineers and architects
- Defined path to senior level
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