Openstack Infrastructure Engineer

About the role

xneelo is seeking an Openstack Infrastructure Engineer to build, manage and scale its Openstack compute and storage platform. The role focuses on infrastructure stability, automation and delivering reliable hosting services.

Key responsibilities

• Design, deploy and operate Openstack compute and storage services at scale.
• Maintain and troubleshoot Ceph or similar distributed storage systems.
• Manage Linux systems, data‑centre hardware and networking components (OVN, OVS, BGP, LACP, Juniper).
• Implement Infrastructure as Code using Ansible, Terraform and related tooling.
• Participate in on‑call rotation, handling incidents, upgrades and migrations.

Required profile

• Extensive experience with open‑source infrastructure and Openstack operations.
• Strong Linux administration and hardware knowledge.
• Solid networking fundamentals and experience with virtual/physical cloud networks.
• Security‑minded approach and SRE mindset for reliability.
• Ability to work autonomously in a distributed, asynchronous team.

Required skills

• OpenStack, Ceph, Linux (Ubuntu), Ansible, Terraform, Rundeck
• LXC, Nspawn, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana
• OVN, OVS, BGP, JunOS, LACP, networking hardware
• Git, Jira, scripting/automation
• Virtualisation, cloud infrastructure at scale, SRE practices