Job description
This is a remote position.
Primary Responsibilities 1. OpenStack Architecture & Platform Engineering
Design production-grade OpenStack environments across controller, compute, and storage nodes.
Architect HA control planes using HAProxy, Keepalived, Galera, and RabbitMQ clustering.
Build scalable cell-based Nova architectures.
Implement multi-region replication strategies.
Perform platform capacity modeling and growth forecasting.
2. Compute Virtualization (Nova)
Nova scheduler tuning and filters.
CPU pinning and isolation.
NUMA topology alignment.
HugePages configuration.
Live migrations and evacuations.
GPU passthrough and SR-IOV provisioning.
Hypervisor stack includes KVM, QEMU, Libvirt, and VirtIO.3. Networking & SDN (Neutron)
ML2 plugin architecture.
OVS, OVN, Linux Bridge deployments.
VXLAN, Geneve, VLAN overlays.
DVR and L3 routing.
Floating IP NAT design.
SR-IOV and DPDK acceleration.
Integration with BGP EVPN, MPLS, VRFs, and SD-WAN.
4. Storage EngineeringCeph (Primary Requirement)
RBD block storage.
CephFS and RGW object storage.
CRUSH map tuning.
Placement group optimization.
BlueStore performance tuning.
NVMe and SSD tiering.
Additional exposure to Linstor, DRBD, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF preferred.5. Image & Lifecycle Services
Glance image pipelines.
QCOW2 optimization.
Cloud-init automation.
Golden image lifecycle management.
6. Identity & Access (Keystone)
RBAC modeling.
LDAP/AD integration.
SAML/SSO federation.
Token lifecycle management.
7. Orchestration & Automation
Heat orchestration templates.
Terraform automation.
Ansible playbooks.
CI/CD for infrastructure.
Deployment frameworks include Kolla-Ansible, OpenStack-Ansible, TripleO, and MAAS/Juju.8. Kubernetes & Containerized Control Planes
Operate OpenStack on Kubernetes.
Helm/Operator-based deployments.
Pod and persistent volume troubleshooting.
9. Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic)
PXE/iPXE pipelines.
Hardware introspection.
Integration with MAAS/Foreman.
10. Observability & Reliability Engineering
Prometheus and Grafana monitoring.
ELK logging pipelines.
Incident response and RCA.
SLA tracking and alert tuning.
11. Upgrade & Lifecycle Management
Major version upgrades.
Rolling compute upgrades.
Database migrations.
Zero-downtime patching.
Requirements
Required Technical Experience
8–12+ years Linux systems engineering.
5+ years OpenStack production operations.
Strong KVM virtualization expertise.
Networking: BGP, VXLAN, EVPN.
Storage: Ceph production operations.
Databases: MariaDB/Galera.
Messaging: RabbitMQ.
Automation: Ansible/Terraform.
Scripting: Python/Bash.
Preferred Skills
Platform9 / Canonical / Red Hat OpenStack.
Ironic bare-metal provisioning.
DPDK / SR-IOV acceleration.
GPU workloads.
Hybrid cloud integrations.
Work Model Requirements
Remote within India.
Mandatory U.S. EST shift overlap.
Night shift operations required.
On-call rotation participation.
Originally posted on Himalayas
Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.