Senior Cloud Engineer, OpenStack

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DC Thomson

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1905

📱 Media

👥 B2C

Media • B2C • Advertising

DC Thomson is a diverse media company with a portfolio that includes Beano Studios, brightsolid, DC Thomson Media, Findmypast, Puzzler, and The Stylist Group. The company operates in a wide range of areas, producing content and providing media services. DC Thomson Capital and DC Thomson Shop are also part of its business operations, showcasing its involvement in finance and retail activities. The company places a strong emphasis on privacy and data protection, adhering to various legal terms and conditions regarding advertising, competition, and users' privacy. DC Thomson is committed to user experience and security, utilizing technologies for ad performance measurement and personalization.

📋 Description

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across OpenStack-based cloud platforms, acting as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems. • Support the development of engineering standards, patterns, and reusable designs, while mentoring other engineers within the team. • Ensure solutions are designed to meet both customer and business requirements in multi-tenant environments. • Design, implement, and manage Brightsolid’s OpenStack cloud platform, including compute, storage, and networking components. • Work across the full lifecycle of the platform, including build, deployment, optimisation, and scaling of services. • Ensure the platform remains highly available, resilient, and capable of supporting diverse workloads. • Design and support large-scale storage platforms underpinning the cloud environment, including high-performance and enterprise storage solutions. • Contribute to the architecture and operation of block, object, and distributed storage services, ensuring performance, durability, and scalability requirements are met. • Drive the adoption of infrastructure-as-code and automation practices across the cloud platform. • Develop and maintain deployment tooling, orchestration templates, and automation pipelines to ensure consistent and repeatable platform delivery. • Support a continuous delivery approach for infrastructure services. • Support the ongoing operation of the Brightsolid cloud platform, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex issues. • Ensure platform compliance, patching, and lifecycle management activities are performed in line with operational standards. • Contribute to a high-availability, 24x7 service environment. • Contribute to the evolution of Brightsolid’s cloud platform, working closely with Cloud Engineering leadership and Product Management to enhance capabilities and introduce new technologies. • Support the ongoing transition to open-source platforms and ensure alignment with long-term strategic goals. • Work closely with Network Engineering, Security Operations, Product Management, and Customer Success teams to deliver integrated cloud services. • Engage with external partners including Canonical to support platform development, deployment, and optimisation.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in a senior cloud engineering or infrastructure engineering role. • Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms or distributed systems. • Proven expertise in Linux-based systems and infrastructure. Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code and automation principles. • Experience working in a managed service or service provider environment delivering high availability solutions. • Experience with OpenStack and associated technologies including compute, networking, and orchestration services. • Experience with distributed storage platforms and data services. • Familiarity with Canonical tooling and cloud deployment models. • Experience with automation frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent tooling. Experience supporting multi-tenant environments and large-scale infrastructure platforms. • Strong technical leadership with the ability to influence design and engineering decisions. • Collaborative approach with the ability to work across multiple technical domains. • Customer-focused mindset with a strong emphasis on service quality and reliability. • Ability to operate both strategically and at a detailed technical level. • Continuous improvement mindset aligned to modern engineering practices.