About the role
This is a remote position.
About the Role
We are seeking a deeply technical Senior OpenStack Engineer to design, build, automate, scale, and operate large-scale production OpenStack environments powering enterprise private clouds, MSP platforms, and high-performance digital twin lab infrastructures.
This is not a UI-driven admin role. We are looking for engineers who understand OpenStack at the service, database, messaging, hypervisor, and packet-flow layers — individuals who can troubleshoot RabbitMQ queues, debug Neutron agents, tune Ceph latency, and automate full cloud deployments from bare metal upward.
You will work on multi-region architectures, high-availability designs,NVMestorage fabrics, SDN integrations, and hybrid cloud platforms supporting global customers.
Primary Responsibilities
1. OpenStack Architecture & Platform Engineering
- Design production-grade OpenStack environments across controller, compute, and storage nodes. - Architect HA control planes usingHAProxy,Keepalived, Galera, and RabbitMQ clustering. - Build scalable cell-based Nova architectures. - Implement multi-region replication strategies. - Perform platform capacitymodelingand growth forecasting.
2. Compute Virtualization (Nova)
- Nova scheduler tuning and filters. - CPU pinning and isolation. - NUMA topology alignment. -HugePagesconfiguration. - Live migrations and evacuations. - GPU passthrough and SR-IOV provisioning.
Hypervisor stack includes KVM, QEMU,Libvirt, andVirtIO.
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 Engineering
Ceph (Primary Requirement)
- RBD block storage. -CephFSand RGW object storage. - CRUSH map tuning. - Placement group optimization. -BlueStoreperformance tuning. -NVMeand SSD tiering.
Additional exposure toLinstor, DRBD, iSCSI, andNVMe-oFpreferred.
5. Image & Lifecycle Services
- Glance image pipelines. - QCOW2 optimization. - Cloud-initautomation. - Golden image lifecycle management.
6. Identity & Access (Keystone)
- RBACmodeling. - LDAP/AD integration. - SAML/SSO federation. - Token lifecycle management. 7. Orchestration & Automation
- Heat orchestration templates. - Terraform automation. - Ansible playbooks.
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