OpenStack

OpenStack Infrastructure

Global Innovators to Help Us Build Tomorrow's Enterprise

• Architect, design, deploy, upgrade, and manage large-scale OpenStack private cloud platforms.
• Lead platform engineering, automation, reliability, and operational-improvement initiatives.
• Administer and integrate core services including Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, Heat, Horizon, Placement, and Octavia.
• Ensure platform availability, scalability, security, performance, capacity, and compliance.
• Collaborate with compute, network, storage, security, and application teams in an ITIL-based delivery environment.

Qualifications

Basic

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required.
• 8–12 years of experience in infrastructure, cloud, and virtualization, including strong hands-on OpenStack experience.
• Strong expertise in Linux administration, KVM, OpenStack architecture, deployment, operations, and troubleshooting.

Preferred

• Strong hands-on experience in OpenStack installation, configuration, upgrades, patching, administration, and lifecycle management.
• Good working knowledge of Nova compute, Neutron networking, Cinder block storage, Glance images, Keystone identity, Heat orchestration, Horizon, Placement, and Octavia.
• Strong hands-on expertise in KVM, QEMU, libvirt, Linux networking, and virtualization performance tuning.
• Experience with Open vSwitch, OVN, VLAN, VXLAN, provider networks, floating IPs, routers, security groups, and load balancing.
• Experience integrating Ceph or enterprise storage platforms with OpenStack.
• Automation experience using Ansible, Terraform, Python, shell scripting, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Experience with high availability, disaster recovery, capacity planning, cluster hardening, and platform upgrades.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident management, problem management, and root-cause analysis capabilities.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and the ELK stack.
• Strong knowledge of ITIL processes and enterprise operations.

Advanced Concepts / Expertise

• Multi-region, availability-zone, host-aggregate, and cell-based OpenStack architecture.
• Advanced Neutron design, including OVN/OVS, distributed virtual routing, overlay networking, SR-IOV, DPDK, and network-function virtualization.
• Ceph-backed storage architecture, performance optimization, failure recovery, and capacity management.
• OpenStack control-plane high availability, database clustering, message-queue resilience, and disaster-recovery design.
• Bare-metal provisioning with Ironic and image-building with related OpenStack services.
• Identity federation, role-based access control, certificate management, secrets management, and security hardening.
• Platform observability, resilience testing, performance benchmarking, and tuning at scale.
• Upgrade planning, workload migration, version compatibility assessment, and rollback strategy.
• Cost optimization, utilization analysis, capacity forecasting, and service-level reporting.

Nice to Have

• Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Canonical OpenStack, or upstream OpenStack experience.
• Public cloud exposure across AWazS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Relevant certifications such as RHCE, RHCA, or OpenStack certification.
• Programming experience in Python or Go.
• DevSecOps, compliance, configuration management, and Git-based delivery practices.
• Experience with telco cloud, edge computing, NFV, and carrier-grade infrastructure.