Lead Platform Engineer – OpenStack

🕒 September 2

🇩🇪 Germany – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Interval Group

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51 - 200 employees

📣 Marketing

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📦 Logistics

Marketing • Legal • Logistics

Interval Group is a boutique consulting and recruitment firm specializing in providing expert resources to help industry-leading organizations achieve their goals. With a global talent network of over 20 million professionals, Interval Group focuses on hiring exceptional talent for various roles including permanent, contract, and freelance positions. Their team of specialists is chosen for their expertise in areas such as technology, strategy, education, financial services, and corporate functions, ensuring the right professionals deliver effective solutions tailored to client needs. Founded by seasoned consultants, Interval Group emphasizes quality over size, aiming to be the best in their field.

📋 Description

• Plan and lead the migration from legacy virtualization environments to a modern bare-metal OpenStack architecture • Design and optimize high-performance network infrastructures, including SDN, BGP routing, and firewall rule sets • Implement comprehensive automation and Infrastructure as Code to create autonomous self-healing mechanisms • Integrate AI agents and automated workflows for VM provisioning, monitoring responses, and security approvals • Develop API services and orchestration scripts, for example in Python or C# • Contribute to modern control-plane frontends • Support and mentor junior professionals and team members • Share best practices in modern data center operations • Lead the fundamental rebuild of a highly available, sovereign OpenStack-based private/public cloud infrastructure on dedicated bare-metal hardware

🎯 Requirements

• Several years of in-depth experience building, operating, and troubleshooting OpenStack cloud environments • In-depth knowledge of Linux administration, such as Debian/Ubuntu • Knowledge of common automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform, as well as IaC frameworks • Strong understanding of BGP, Anycast, SDN, and modern routing and routing security concepts • Strong programming skills, such as Python, C#, or comparable languages • Understanding of and practical interest in using AI tools to efficiently manage large-scale server environments • Dependable decision-making and ability to act effectively in critical situations • Strong strategic vision for sustainable system architectures • Fluent German and English • Nice to have: Experience implementing custom AI agents in IT infrastructures • Nice to have: Experience replacing or migrating large VMware environments • Nice to have: Prior knowledge of modern web frontends, such as Vue.js or React

🏖️ Benefits

• Direct involvement in the core architecture of a large, growing company without rigid corporate structures • Freedom to choose your operating systems • Access to state-of-the-art AI development tools • Flat hierarchies • Short decision-making processes • A culture of ownership and initiative • Direct impact • Permanent employment contract • Long-term security in an established and financially stable environment