Senior OpenStack DevOps Engineer

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This role is fully remote for candidates who reside outside the 30 mile radius of one of our offices. For candidates who reside within a 30 mile radius of one of our offices, this role is Hybrid and would require 3 days a week (T, W, TH) in office.Full-TimeSenior
Salary$90,700 — $252,200 USD
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Job Details

Experience
5+ years
Required Skills
PythonBashGitGoCI/CDLinuxTerraformAnsible

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience operating and automating large-scale OpenStack cloud environments.
  • Expert-level proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code with Ansible, Terraform, or Pulumi.
  • Strong hands-on knowledge of OpenStack services (Neutron, Octavia, Manila, Cinder, Nova, Ironic, Glance).
  • Strong Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) systems engineering background.
  • Advanced scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or Go.
  • Fluency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated test frameworks.
  • Strong understanding of L2/L3 networking, SDN overlays, load balancing, and storage protocols (iSCSI, NFS, CEPH).
  • Demonstrated success building or maintaining multi-region or high-availability OpenStack clusters.
  • Ability to write technical documentation and contribute to community wikis.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement multi-tenant OpenStack infrastructure aligned with open community standards.
  • Automate provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration using Ansible, Terraform, or Pulumi.
  • Extend and maintain integrations for core OpenStack services including Neutron, Octavia, Manila, Cinder, Nova, Ironic, and Glance.
  • Develop automated monitoring, alerting, and healing mechanisms using GitOps principles and observability tools like Prometheus, Loki, and Grafana.
  • Implement continuous delivery pipelines for OpenStack updates, including patch management and service upgrade testing.
  • Perform deep-dive troubleshooting and performance analysis across control and data planes.
  • Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis for platform reliability.
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