Senior OpenStack Engineer
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Senior OpenStack Engineer designing, deploying, and operating private sovereign clouds for Software Mind’s enterprise clients. Owning OpenStack architecture, integrations, client workshops, and production operations.
Responsibilities:
- Design, deploy and operate private and sovereign cloud platforms for enterprise clients in Western Europe
- Own platform architecture across control plane, compute, storage and network, including high availability and resource sizing
- Produce High Level Design, Low Level Design, as-built documentation and operational runbooks
- Deploy and upgrade platforms with Kolla-Ansible, maintaining configuration as code in Git
- Integrate storage, networking, identity and load balancing using Cinder, OVN, Open vSwitch, Keystone with OIDC federation, Octavia and Barbican
- Set up metrics and logging and integrate the platform with the client ServiceNow CMDB
- Run technical workshops, design reviews and acceptance testing with client representatives
- Act as third-line escalation for managed platforms and lead root cause analysis
- Support pre-sales as a technical expert and provide technical guidance to team engineers
- Work directly with client architects as part of an internal OpenStack team
Requirements:
- At least 6 years in infrastructure, virtualisation or cloud platforms, including 3 years with OpenStack in production
- Experience designing OpenStack architecture, with at least one full implementation from design to production handover
- Strong command of Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Glance, Cinder, Placement, Horizon, Octavia and Barbican
- Deployment and upgrade experience with Kolla-Ansible, including playbook customisation and containerised service lifecycle
- Advanced Linux administration, KVM and libvirt virtualisation, and container runtimes such as Docker
- Troubleshooting experience across MariaDB or Galera, RabbitMQ, HAProxy, Keepalived, Redis and Memcached
- Solid cloud networking background: OVN and Open vSwitch, GENEVE or VXLAN overlays, VLAN provider networks, NAT and floating IP addresses
- English at C1 level, sufficient to run technical workshops and design reviews with client architects independently
- Experience with VMware exit and migration programmes towards OpenStack, including migration tooling and wave planning
- Enterprise storage integration through Cinder drivers, such as NetApp ONTAP over NFS or Ceph
- Telco workloads on OpenStack: SR-IOV, DPDK, CPU pinning, huge pages and NUMA aware scheduling
- Terraform or OpenTofu, Kubernetes on OpenStack, GPU enabled compute nodes
- ServiceNow, particularly ITOM Discovery and the CMDB model, or experience in an ITIL based service model
- Familiarity with sovereign cloud regulatory requirements in the public sector and financial services
Benefits:
- Flexible employment and remote work
- International projects with leading global clients
- International business trips
- Non-corporate atmosphere
- Language classes
- Internal & external training
- Private healthcare and insurance
- Multisport card
- Well-being initiatives
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