Senior OpenStack Engineer

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior OpenStack Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise-scale OpenStack infrastructure. This role ensures reliability, security, and cost-efficiency across hybrid cloud and colocation environments. The engineer will bridge physical hardware procurement, OpenStack deployment, and data center operations to support and scale our virtualization ecosystem. Key Responsibilities Infrastructure Design and Deployment Deliver resilient OpenStack environments with 99.999% uptime, optimized for hybrid cloud workloads. Architect and manage OpenStack clusters across geo-distributed data center environments. Identify, qualify, procure, and manage physical hardware (compute, storage, networking) aligned with OpenStack and Ceph storage requirements. Data Center Operations and Capacity Planning Collaborate with colocation vendors to ensure power/cooling capacity meets workload demands, using DCIM tools for rack-level planning (power, BTU/hr, U space). Conduct quarterly capacity audits to identify resource gaps, depletion risks, and upgrade timelines. Networking and Security Governance Configure routing, SD-WAN integrations, AWS Direct Connect, VPC peering, and mesh networking for hybrid cloud connectivity. Implement security standards leveraging OpenStack (Keystone, Neutron) and Linux capabilities, including encrypted Ceph storage. Perform regular security audits and remediate security findings. Automation and Observability Develop Ansible playbooks, Terraform modules, MaaS configurations for OpenStack component provisioning. Build predictive analytics pipelines using metrics, logs, and traces. Design self-healing workflows for compute and storage failures. Competencies and Skills Proficiency in KVM/QEMU, Ceph, and OpenStack services (Nova, Neutron, Keystone). Proficiency in infrastructure as code and configuration management tools (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Ansible, Salt). Proficiency in Linux performance analysis (eBPF). Advanced, at-scale automation of bare-metal provisioning. Hands-on experience with DCIM tools. Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks (APM, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki). Experience in evaluating, qualifying, and managing networking hardware and capacity planning. Expertise designing and managing network infrastructure across multiple data centers and public cloud environments. Familiarity with configuring and troubleshooting network hardware and software, as well as analyzing packet captures. In-depth understanding of networking layers, protocols, services, and security practices. Proven track record negotiating hardware procurement and colocation SLAs. Expertise with container management (Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, Helm). Experience with VCS systems and providers (Git, Mercurial, GitHub, Sourcehut). Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Circle CI, Argo). Experience with ticket management systems (Jira, Shortcut, Azure DevOps). Qualifications 10+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, with at least 5 years of specialized OpenStack expertise. Demonstrated success managing large-scale, high-availability cloud environments. Proven ability to architect hybrid cloud solutions across colocation and public cloud platforms. Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills. Job Types: Full-time, Contract Experience: hands-on infrastructure engineering: 10 years (Required) of specialized OpenStack : 5 years (Required) Work Location: Remote