Lead Openstack Architect

Inent is a leading provider of information technology, consulting and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world’s leading companies build stronger businesses. Great organizations demand great IT. To stay on budget, on schedule and maintain high quality standards for IT initiatives, organizations must align with the right service providers—those that can truly improve and enhance the initiatives they support.

Role: Lead Openstack Architect

Client: Accenture

Location: Dallas, TX or Middletown, NJ

Start Date: ASAP

Manager notes: I’m looking for someone that has at least 2-3 years of Openstack under their belt.

Role

Description:

Lead architect on a complex, large-scale Openstack cloud implementation responsible for defining, planning, and documenting the architecture and solutions for new cloud products.

• Experience supporting a large scale, elastic, highly available cloud environment.
• Deep understanding of the Open Stack project ecosystem and hands‑on Openstack development / coding experience.
• Experience with Heat orchestration engine and delivering IaaS and PaaS offerings within Openstack.
• Good experience with Neutron and solid networking fundamentals (e.g. SDN).
• Knowledge of multiple hypervisor technologies (e.g. KVM, VMware ESXi).
• Ability to bring others together across various organizations and come to agreements on proposed solutions.
• Ability to quickly learn new technologies and work independently with minimal supervision in an agile environment.
• Experience designing and using web services APIs (RESTful, SOAP).
• Proficiency with development and scripting and development (Java, C++, bash, perl, python, git).
• Experience with monitoring and usage collection tools such as Nagios and Ceilometer.
• Experience with some Continuous Integration system (eg. Jenkins).
• Configuration management tools (e.g. chef, puppet).