Senior OpenStack Engineer - Poland

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📅 Posted 2026-07-29 · via Himalayas

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Primary Responsibilities 1. OpenStack Architecture & Platform Engineering
- Design production-grade OpenStack environments across controller, compute, and storage nodes.

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

- Build scalable cell-based Nova architectures.

- Implement multi-region replication strategies.

- Perform platform capacity modeling and growth forecasting.

2. Compute Virtualization (Nova)
- Nova scheduler tuning and filters.

- CPU pinning and isolation.

- NUMA topology alignment.

- HugePages configuration.

- Live migrations and evacuations.

- GPU passthrough and SR-IOV provisioning.

Hypervisor stack includes KVM, QEMU, Libvirt, and VirtIO. 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.

- CephFS and RGW object storage.

- CRUSH map tuning.

- Placement group optimization.

- BlueStore performance tuning.

- NVMe and SSD tiering.

Additional exposure to Linstor, DRBD, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF preferred. 5. Image & Lifecycle Services
- Glance image pipelines.

- QCOW2 optimization.

- Cloud-init automation.

- Golden image lifecycle management.

6. Identity & Access (Keystone)
- RBAC modeling.

- LDAP/AD integration.

- SAML/SSO federation.

- Token lifecycle management.

7. Orchestration & Automation
- Heat orchestration templates.

- Terraform automation.

- Ansible playbooks.

- CI/CD for infrastructure.

Deployment frameworks include Kolla-Ansible, OpenStack-Ansible, TripleO, and MAAS/Juju. 8. Kubernetes & Containerized Control Planes
- Operate OpenStack on Kubernetes.

- Helm/Operator-based deployments.

- Pod and persistent volume troubleshooting.

9. Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic)
- PXE/iPXE pipelines.

- Hardware introspection.

- Integration with MAAS/Foreman.

10. Observability & Reliability Engineering
- Prometheus and Grafana monitoring.

- ELK logging pipelines.

- Incident response and RCA.

- SLA tracking and alert tuning.

11. Upgrade & Lifecycle Management
- Major version upgrades.

- Rolling compute upgrades.

- Database migrations.

- Zero-downtime patching.

Requirements

Required Technical Experience
- 8–12+ years Linux systems engineering.

- 5+ years OpenStack production operations.

- Strong KVM virtualization expertise.

- Networking: BGP, VXLAN, EVPN.

- Storage: Ceph production operations.

- Databases: MariaDB/Galera.

- Messaging: RabbitMQ.

- Automation: Ansible/Terraform.

- Scripting: Python/Bash.

Preferred Skills
- Platform9 / Canonical / Red Hat OpenStack.

- Ironic bare-metal provisioning.

- DPDK / SR-IOV acceleration.

- GPU workloads.

- Hybrid cloud integrations.

Work Model Requirements
- Remote within India.

- Mandatory U.S. EST shift overlap.

- Night shift operations required.

- On-call rotation participation.

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