Opening for OpenStack Cloud Platform Engineer || San Jose, CA-95134 -Hybrid
PSRTEK • San Jose, CA, United States
1 day ago
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Job description
Job Title: OpenStack Cloud Platform Engineer
Location: San Jose, CA-95134-Hybrid
Mode of Hire: Contract
Job Description:
Role Summary:
Client is seeking an OpenStack Cloud Platform Engineer to deploy, operate, automate, and optimize large-scale private and hybrid-cloud infrastructure. The engineer will support compute-intensive engineering workloads and ensure platform availability, scalability, security, and operational reliability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deploy, configure, operate, and troubleshoot production OpenStack environments.
- Support OpenStack services including Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, Heat, Placement, and Octavia.
- Manage compute, storage, networking, identity, images, quotas, and tenant environments.
- Monitor platform capacity, availability, performance, and service health.
- Perform upgrades, patching, lifecycle management, migrations, and capacity expansions.
- Troubleshoot complex issues across compute, network, storage, virtualization, and control-plane layers.
- Automate provisioning and platform operations using Ansible, Terraform, Python, Bash, or similar tools.
- Support KVM virtualization and integrations with Ceph or other distributed-storage platforms.
- Build monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational dashboards.
- Conduct root-cause analysis and implement preventive corrective actions.
- Create platform documentation, operational runbooks, recovery procedures, and architecture diagrams.
- Collaborate with Linux, networking, storage, security, OpenShift, and application teams.
Required Skills:
- Strong production experience with OpenStack administration and operations.
- Hands-on knowledge of Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, and Placement.
- Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting experience.
- Experience with KVM and virtualization technologies.
- Knowledge of software-defined networking, TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, and network security.
- Experience with block, object, and distributed-storage technologies.
- Proficiency with Ansible, Terraform, Python, or Bash.
- Experience with platform monitoring, logging, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
- Understanding of high availability, scalability, capacity management, and disaster recovery.
Preferred Skills:
- OpenShift or Kubernetes administration experience.
- Experience with Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift.
- Ceph architecture and operations experience.
- Experience supporting EDA, AI/ML, HPC, GPU, or large-scale batch workloads.
- Knowledge of Slurm, LSF, or similar workload schedulers.
- Red Hat, OpenStack, OpenShift, or Kubernetes certification.
- Public-cloud experience with Azure, AWS, or GCP.
Success Measures:
- High platform availability and service reliability.
- Faster provisioning and improved infrastructure utilization.
- Successful upgrades and expansions with minimal disruption.
- Reduction in recurring incidents and manual operational effort.
- Improved monitoring, automation, and platform documentation.