Remote Senior Cloud Engineer; OpenStack Platform

Role Title: Senior Cloud Engineer (Open Stack Platform)
Location: Remote, UK

About Brightsolid
Brightsolid is a leading provider of hybrid cloud and managed services, delivering secure, sovereign, AI-ready infrastructure platforms across the UK. Our next-generation cloud platform is built on an open, extensible architecture using Canonical’s Open Stack, enabling scalable, resilient, and multi-tenant cloud services for modern workloads including virtual machines, containers, bare metal and AI platforms. 

Role Overview
The Senior Cloud Engineer is a senior technical role within the Cloud Engineering function, responsible for the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of Brightsolid’s large-scale Open Stack-based cloud platforms and associated storage systems. You will act as a technical leader within the team, ensuring that platforms are architected correctly for multi-tenant environments while supporting the ongoing evolution of the Brightsolid Cloud platform.

This role represents a shift from traditional public cloud and VMware-based platforms towards open-source technologies, with a strong focus on Open Stack, Canonical tooling, and large-scale infrastructure engineering. 

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership
• Provide hands-on technical leadership across Open Stack-based cloud platforms, acting as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Support the development of engineering standards, patterns, and reusable designs, while mentoring other engineers within the team.
• Ensure solutions are designed to meet both customer and business requirements in multi-tenant environments. 

• Platform Engineering
• Design, implement, and manage Brightsolid’s Open Stack cloud platform, including compute, storage, and networking components.
• Work across the full lifecycle of the platform, including build, deployment, optimisation, and scaling of services.
• Ensure the platform remains highly available, resilient, and capable of supporting diverse workloads. 

• Storage and Data Platforms
• Design and support large-scale storage platforms underpinning the cloud environment, including high-performance and enterprise storage solutions.
• Contribute to the architecture and operation of block, object, and distributed storage services, ensuring performance, durability, and scalability requirements are met.

• Automation and Infrastructure as Code
• Drive the adoption of infrastructure-as-code and automation practices across the cloud platform.
• Develop and maintain deployment tooling, orchestration templates, and automation pipelines to ensure consistent and repeatable platform delivery.
• Support a continuous delivery approach for infrastructure services. 

• Operations and Service Reliability
• Support the ongoing operation of the Brightsolid cloud platform, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex issues.
• Ensure platform compliance, patching, and lifecycle management activities are performed in line with operational standards.
• Contribute to a high-availability, 24x7 service environment. 

• Technology Strategy and Innovation
• Contribute to the evolution of Brightsolid’s cloud platform, working closely with Cloud Engineering leadership and Product Management to enhance capabilities and introduce new technologies.
• Support the ongoing transition to open-source platforms and ensure alignment with long-term strategic goals.

• Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement
• Work closely with Network Engineering, Security Operations, Product Management, and Customer Success teams to deliver integrated cloud services.
• Engage with external partners including Canonical to support platform development, deployment, and optimisation.

Key Skills and Experience

Essential

• Strong experience in a senior cloud engineering or infrastructure engineering role.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms or distributed systems.
• Proven expertise in Linux-based systems and infrastructure. Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code and automation principles.
• Experience working in a managed service or service provider environment delivering high availability solutions. 

Desirable

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