OpenStack Infrastructure Engineer

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🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷 Infrastructure Engineer

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📋 Description

• Build, manage and scale OpenStack compute and storage infrastructure • Operate and troubleshoot open-source infrastructure systems • Implement, operate and troubleshoot OpenStack environments • Manage distributed storage systems such as Ceph, including capacity, replication, failure domains, recovery, latency and performance • Troubleshoot compute, storage, physical and virtual networking, databases, message queues, containers, hypervisors and guest workloads • Plan and execute infrastructure upgrades, migrations and high-impact changes • Manage end-to-end infrastructure from physical systems and network fabric through OpenStack services to customer workloads • Use Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and automation to deliver repeatable, version-controlled operations • Document architecture decisions, runbooks, change plans, incident findings and recovery procedures • Participate in technical reviews and provide or respond to detailed feedback • Participate in Rootly-managed on-call rotation and respond to occasional out-of-hours incidents, maintenance or operational requests • Use AI-assisted tools for research, troubleshooting, documentation and automation while applying engineering judgement, peer review and testing • Collaborate effectively in a distributed, largely asynchronous team

🎯 Requirements

• Experience operating open-source infrastructure systems; extensive experience expected at senior level • OpenStack implementation, operations or troubleshooting experience • Experience with Ceph or similar distributed storage systems, including capacity, replication, failure domains, recovery, latency and performance • Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills • Practical knowledge of data-centre-grade hardware, including enterprise servers, CPUs, memory, storage media, NICs, firmware and out-of-band management • Understanding of how hardware design, power, cooling, rack layout and component failure affect platform reliability and performance • Strong networking fundamentals; experience in OVN, OVS, BGP underlays, LACP, Juniper, IPv4, IPv6 and physical or virtual cloud networks advantageous • Ability to troubleshoot across compute, storage, physical and virtual networking, databases, message queues, containers, hypervisors and guest workloads • Experience with virtualisation and cloud infrastructure at scale • Security-minded approach to architecture, automation, access control and operational workflows • SRE mindset focused on reducing failure probability, recovery time, operational risk and data-loss exposure • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and automation practices • Preference for repeatable, version-controlled automation over undocumented manual work • Discipline when planning and executing upgrades, migrations and high-impact infrastructure changes • Strong end-to-end ownership from physical infrastructure and network fabric through OpenStack services to customer workloads • Ability to reason about capacity and performance across CPU, memory, storage, IOPS, latency, throughput, packet rates and control-plane scale • Ability to use AI-assisted tools productively while understanding their limitations • Clear technical documentation skills, including architecture decisions, runbooks, change plans, incident findings and recovery procedures • Ability to contribute constructively to technical reviews, challenge unsafe assumptions and respond well to detailed feedback • Ability to work effectively in a distributed, largely asynchronous team • Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation managed through Rootly and respond to occasional out-of-hours incidents, maintenance or operational requests • Experience with a reasonable number of Ubuntu Linux, Ansible, OpenStack, Ceph, Terraform, Rundeck, LXC, Nspawn, OVN, OVS, BGP, JunOS, LACP, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Git, Jira or similar tools

🏖️ Benefits

• Salary negotiable, commensurate with skills and track record • High level of discretion and autonomy • Distributed, largely asynchronous team • Opportunity for autonomy, mastery and purpose • Meaningful opportunity to work on world-class compute and storage hosting platforms

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