Senior OpenStack Engineer

• Contract to Hire as a W2 employee of Talent Groups to start. • Remote, working CST hours, with preference for Dallas-Metro local candidates. We are seeking a hands-on Senior OpenStack Engineer to join our infrastructure team. This role will step into a fully built OpenStack environment spanning 9 data centers, with the goal of maintaining, scaling, and building out the next generation of private cloud infrastructure. Key Responsibilities: • Administer and scale a large, distributed OpenStack environment. • Work with OpenStack core services (Nova, Neutron—including custom drivers, Keystone). • Manage KVM/QEMU virtualization, Ceph storage, and OpenShift containers at multi-petabyte scale. • Automate infrastructure using Ansible, Terraform, or related IAC tools like OpenTofu, Salt, Pulumi. • Perform Linux performance tuning, including bare metal optimization and eBPF tracing. • Use DCIM tools for hardware/inventory management. • Lead hardware qualification, purchasing, and compute capacity planning for OpenStack. • Deep networking expertise including VLAN and VXLAN. • Engage vendors and support purchasing decisions when needed. • Join on-call rotation for support and incident response. Requirements: • Strong experience building and administering OpenStack in production across multiple data centers. • Proficiency with KVM/QEMU, Ceph, and OpenStack services (Nova, Neutron, Keystone). • Experience with custom Neutron drivers a strong plus. • OpenShift container experience at scale (multi-petabyte environments). • Solid background in Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform, or similar). • Deep Linux system knowledge, including bare metal and performance debugging (eBPF). • Familiarity with DCIM tools (e.g., NetBox, Device42, or similar). • Experience with hardware planning and purchasing for data center compute environments. • Strong knowledge of networking, especially VLAN/VXLAN. • Ability to pick up existing architecture and scale/build out next-gen systems.