Senior OpenStack Engineer - US

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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. 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.

1. Image & Lifecycle Services

• Glance image pipelines.
• QCOW2 optimization.
• Cloud-initautomation.
• Golden image lifecycle management.

1. Identity & Access (Keystone)

• RBACmodeling.
• LDAP/AD integration.
• SAML/SSO federation.
• Token lifecycle management.

1. Orchestration & Automation

• Heat orchestration templates.
• Terraform automation.
• Ansible playbooks.

Originally posted on Himalayas