Openstack Infrastructure Engineer
xneelo · Durbanville
Job description
About the role
We are looking for an OpenStack Infrastructure Engineer to design, build and operate our OpenStack compute and storage platform. You will work within a team that values autonomy, mastery and purpose, delivering reliable hosting services to our customers.
Key responsibilities
- Design, deploy and scale OpenStack compute and storage services.
- Operate and troubleshoot open‑source infrastructure, including Ceph distributed storage.
- Manage data‑centre hardware, networking fabric and hypervisor environments.
- Plan and execute upgrades, migrations and high‑impact infrastructure changes.
- Automate operations using Infrastructure as Code and configuration‑management tools.
- Provide end‑to‑end ownership from physical hardware to customer workloads.
Required profile
- Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting experience.
- Deep understanding of data‑centre hardware, power, cooling and reliability.
- Solid networking fundamentals, including OVN, OVS, BGP, LACP and IPv4/IPv6.
- Security‑focused mindset with experience in access control and automated workflows.
- SRE approach to reduce failure probability and improve recovery times.
Required skills
- OpenStack implementation, operations or troubleshooting.
- Ceph or similar distributed storage systems.
- Linux (various distributions).
- OVN, OVS, BGP, LACP, Juniper networking equipment.
- IPv4 and IPv6 networking.
- Virtualisation technologies and cloud infrastructure at scale.
- Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and automation (e.g., Ansible, Terraform, Git).
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