Openstack Infrastructure Engineer

• Design, implement, maintain, and scale Open Stack-based cloud infrastructure.
• Manage and optimize distributed storage platforms such as Ceph.
• Automate infrastructure deployment and operational processes using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles.
• Monitor and improve platform availability, performance, security, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot issues across compute, storage, virtualization, networking, operating systems, and cloud services.
• Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades, migrations, and maintenance activities.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, recovery procedures, and architecture decisions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver resilient and reliable hosting platforms.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide support during critical incidents when required.

Technical Skills

• Proven experience operating and managing open-source infrastructure environments.
• Hands-on experience with Open Stack administration, implementation, troubleshooting, or operations.
• Experience with Ceph or similar distributed storage platforms.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting expertise.
• Understanding of virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies at scale.
• Experience with data-centre hardware, including:
  • Enterprise servers
  • CPUs and memory
  • Storage technologies
  • Network interface cards (NICs)
  • Firmware management
  • Out-of-band management solutions

Networking

• Experience or exposure to:
  • OVN
  • Open vSwitch (OVS)
  • BGP
  • LACP
  • IPv4 and IPv6
  • Virtual and physical cloud networking
  • Juniper networking environments (advantageous)

Automation & Infrastructure as Code

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation practices.
• Exposure to tools such as:
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Rundeck
• Commitment to repeatable, version-controlled automation rather than manual processes.

Operations & Reliability

• Strong problem-solving abilities across:
  • Compute environments
  • Storage platforms
  • Physical and virtual networking
  • Databases
  • Message queues
  • Containers
  • Hypervisors
  • Guest workloads
• SRE-focused mindset with an emphasis on:
  • Reducing operational risk
  • Improving reliability
  • Minimizing recovery times
  • Protecting data integrity
• Strong ownership mentality and accountability.
• Ability to analyse and manage infrastructure capacity and performance.
• Security-focused approach to architecture and operations.
• Excellent documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to contribute effectively to technical reviews and design discussions.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to completing work to a high standard.
• Comfortable working within a distributed and largely asynchronous team environment.
• Ability to leverage AI-assisted tools responsibly while applying sound engineering judgement.

Preferred Technology Stack Experience

Experience with several of the following technologies will be highly advantageous:

• Open Stack
• Ceph
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Rundeck
• Docker
• LXC
• Nspawn
• OVN
• OVS
• BGP
• JunOS
• LACP
• Grafana
• Git
• Jira

What We’re Looking For

The ideal candidate is passionate about cloud infrastructure, automation, and open-source technologies. They take ownership of their work, think critically about reliability and scalability, and enjoy collaborating with a high-performing technical team to solve complex infrastructure challenges.
If you’re excited about building resilient cloud platforms and working with modern infrastructure technologies at scale, we’d love to hear from you.