OPENSTACK DevOps ENGINEER

Senior OpenStack DevOps EngineerCalifornia Based Clientvisa -anyremotework hours- 7.00am-4.00pm PST Core skills-8-9+ years of experience operating and automating large-scale OpenStack cloud environments, preferably in community-driven or upstream-contributing teams-Expert-level proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code with Ansible, Terraform, or Pulumi-Strong hands-on knowledge of Neutron, Octavia, Manila, Cinder, Nova, Ironic, and Glance-Strong Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) systems engineering background with advanced scripting in Python, Bash, or Go-Fluency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated test frameworks-Strong understanding of L2/L3 networking, SDN overlays (VXLAN, Geneve), load balancing (Octavia), and storage protocols (SDS) (iSCSI, NFS, CEPH)-Demonstrated success building or maintaining multi-region or high-availability OpenStack clusters-Experience with container technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus-Ability to write technical documentation and contribute to community wikis or knowledge basesPreferred Qualifications:Contributions to upstream OpenStack codebases or participation in SIGs/WGsFamiliarity with RBAC, Keystone federation, Barbican (secrets management), and Ceilometer/Gnocchi/AodhUnderstanding of security best practices for tenant isolation, microsegmentation, and compliance (e.g., CIS, NIST)Background in telco, edge cloud, or large enterprise infrastructure environmentsExperience building and maintaining automated test environments for OpenStack upgrades and validation (e.g., Tempest, Rally, or custom test harnesses)Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience and relevant industry certifications will also be consideredKey Responsibilities:Design and implement multi-tenant OpenStack infrastructure aligned with open community standards, including network service isolation and tenant-aware resource schedulingAutomate the provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of OpenStack services and supporting components using Ansible, Terraform, or PulumiExtend and maintain integrations for core OpenStack services:Neutron: Custom network plugins/drivers, L2/L3 routing, BGP, DHCP, and tenant network segmentation (VLAN, VXLAN, Geneve).Octavia: HA load balancing with amphora and provider drivers, TLS offloading, Layer 4/7 routing.Manila: Share drivers for NFS/CIFS, tenant access control, storage backends.Cinder: Block storage provisioning, volume snapshots, multi-attach, backend tuning.Nova: Compute resource scheduling, NUMA/cpu pinning, SR-IOV and PCI passthrough.Ironic: Bare metal provisioning workflows, BIOS/IPMI automation, PXE and UEFI boot configuration.Glance: Image lifecycle management, backing store optimization, image caching strategiesContribute to upstream OpenStack projects when needed (bug fixes, driver enhancements, documentation)Implement continuous delivery pipelines for OpenStack updates, including patch management, service upgrade testing, and rollback proceduresDevelop automated monitoring, alerting, and healing mechanisms using GitOps principles and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Loki, Grafana)Harden services for high availability, disaster recovery, and scale-out operationsPerform deep-dive troubleshooting and performance analysis of OpenStack services across control and data planesParticipate in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis for platform reliability issues Job Type: Contract Pay: $60.00 - $63.00 per hour Work Location: Remote