SC cleared Red Hat OpenStack Engineer

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Design:
  Leading the design and planning of highly available, scalable Open Stack cloud solutions
• Deployment & Configuration:
  Installing and configuring the core Open Stack services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, etc.) often using Red Hat Open Stack Director (the installer/manager)
• Automation:
  Automating cloud provisioning, configuration, and orchestration using tools like Ansible, Python, or Bash scripting
• Integration:
  Integrating Open Stack with other critical services, especially Red Hat Ceph Storage for persistent storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the underlying operating system
• Delivery:
  Performing advanced troubleshooting, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and performance tuning of the Open Stack environment
• Container Integration:
  Increasingly, this role involves enabling container platforms like Red Hat Open Shift to run on top of the Open Stack virtual machines (VMs)

• Essential commercial experience
• Expert-level Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration, including networking, security, storage, and performance tuning
• Deep knowledge of core services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, Swift)
• Experience of Ansible for configuration management and orchestration, and scripting with Python or Go
• Expertise in KVM (the hypervisor used by Open Stack) and related concepts
• Hands‑on experience with Red Hat Ceph Storage for Open Stack integration
• Advanced networking skills (TCP/IP, VLANs, VXLANs, routing) and Open Stack Neutron configuration
• Experience of RED HAT and WINDOWS integration, including active directory

Rates depend on experience and client requirements