Platform Engineer: OpenStack

3+ years of hands-on experience working in production-grade OpenStack environments (deployment, administration, troubleshooting). 5+ years in platform operations, cloud or infrastructure engineering. Deep understanding of OpenStack architecture, components, and service interactions. Hands-on experience with virtualization technologies such as KVM, QEMU, VMware, or similar. Strong practical knowledge of L2/L3 networking fundamentals, VLANs, bonding, NIC teaming, Routing & switching, Security groups, firewalls, Load balancers, overlays, VXLAN/GRE. Experience with monitoring and alerting tools such as Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus, Grafana, or similar. Ability to integrate logs and telemetry for capacity planning, health-checking, and issue debugging. OpenStack Neutron and SDN plugins highly preferred.

Lead the deployment, configuration, and management of multiple OpenStack private cloud platforms. Oversee the full lifecycle of OpenStack services. Implement high availability (HA), scaling, and resiliency best practices. Perform upgrades, patches, and maintenance of OpenStack clusters. Design and build fully automated, repeatable OpenStack deployment pipelines. Contribute to the creation of modular, reusable automation playbooks, roles, and CI/CD pipelines. Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) practices using Ansible, Terraform, and Git-based workflows. Document procedures, architecture, and best practices. Work closely with infrastructure, networking, and DevOps teams.