Senior OpenStack Engineer - US

Job description

This is a remote position.

About the Role

We are seeking a deeply technical Senior OpenStack Engineer to design, build, automate, scale, and operate large-scale production OpenStack environments powering enterprise private clouds, MSP platforms, and high-performance digital twin lab infrastructures.

This is not a UI-driven admin role. We are looking for engineers who understand OpenStack at the service, database, messaging, hypervisor, and packet-flow layers — individuals who can troubleshoot RabbitMQ queues, debug Neutron agents, tune Ceph latency, and automate full cloud deployments from bare metal upward.

You will work on multi-region architectures, high-availability designs,NVMestorage fabrics, SDN integrations, and hybrid cloud platforms supporting global customers.

Primary Responsibilities

1. OpenStack Architecture & Platform Engineering

- Design production-grade OpenStack environments across controller, compute, and storage nodes.

- Architect HA control planes usingHAProxy,Keepalived, Galera, and RabbitMQ clustering.

- Build scalable cell-based Nova architectures.

- Implement multi-region replication strategies.

- Perform platform capacitymodelingand growth forecasting.

2. Compute Virtualization (Nova)

- Nova scheduler tuning and filters.

- CPU pinning and isolation.

- NUMA topology alignment.

-HugePagesconfiguration.

- Live migrations and evacuations.

- GPU passthrough and SR-IOV provisioning.

Hypervisor stack includes KVM, QEMU,Libvirt, andVirtIO.

3. Networking & SDN (Neutron)

- ML2 plugin architecture.

- OVS, OVN, Linux Bridge deployments.

- VXLAN, Geneve, VLAN overlays.

- DVR and L3 routing.

- Floating IP NAT design.

- SR-IOV and DPDK acceleration.

- Integration with BGP EVPN, MPLS, VRFs, and SD-WAN.

4. Storage Engineering

Ceph (Primary Requirement)

- RBD block storage.

-CephFSand RGW object storage.

- CRUSH map tuning.

- Placement group optimization.

-BlueStoreperformance tuning.

-NVMeand SSD tiering.

Additional exposure toLinstor, DRBD, iSCSI, andNVMe-oFpreferred.

5. Image & Lifecycle Services

- Glance image pipelines.

- QCOW2 optimization.

- Cloud-initautomation.

- Golden image lifecycle management.

6. Identity & Access (Keystone)

- RBACmodeling.

- LDAP/AD integration.

- SAML/SSO federation.

- Token lifecycle management.

7. Orchestration & Automation

- Heat orchestration templates.

- Terraform automation.

- Ansible playbooks.

Originally posted on Himalayas