Senior OpenStack Engineer

Sr. OpenStack / Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Remote – India

Type: Full-time

Experience: 10+yrs

About the role

Were looking for a senior platform architect to lead the design and delivery of our private-cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes-native OpenStack. Youll own the architecture for a large, multi-region OpenStack environment — driving its modernization, reliability, and long-term operating model — and act as the senior technical anchor the rest of the platform team builds around.

This is a hands-on architecture role for someone who is equally comfortable making control-plane design decisions, writing the plan that sequences a multi-quarter program, and partnering across teams to land it. You turn ambiguous, large-scale infrastructure goals into clear designs with owners, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

What youll own

• Cloud architecture for a multi-region OpenStack platform: Nova scheduling and capacity strategy, Neutron networking (OVS/OVN), Cinder/Glance, Keystone identity, and Placement.
• Platform modernization: designing and sequencing the move to a Kubernetes-native OpenStack model (e.g., OpenStack-Helm / Atmosphere-style deployments), including region rollout strategy, upgrade and rollback paths, and cutover planning.
• Storage architecture: Ceph design and operations (RBD/RGW, CRUSH, rebalancing, tiering) to enable capabilities such as live migration and resilient shared storage.
• Control-plane resilience: highly-available identity and database design, including the trade-offs of running stateful services across regions.
• Day-2 operations: the runbooks, SLOs, observability, and operational discipline that keep the platform healthy after deployment.
• Technical leadership: setting the engineering standard for design, documentation, and delivery, and mentoring senior and mid-level engineers toward it.
• Cross-functional delivery: partnering with networking, operations, and infrastructure teams to resolve dependencies and keep programs moving.

Must-have experience

• Architected and operated OpenStack at scale in production — multi-region, hundreds or more of hypervisors — with depth across Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, and Placement.
• Kubernetes-native OpenStack experience: running the OpenStack control plane as Kubernetes workloads (OpenStack-Helm, Atmosphere, or equivalent).
• Strong Ceph design and operational experience for block and object storage.
• Led a platform migration or modernization program end to end — sequencing, risk management, cutover, and rollback — not just isolated component work.
• Bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle tooling (MAAS, Ironic, or similar).
• GitOps delivery (Argo CD / Flux) and modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or equivalents).
• A track record of influencing across team and org boundaries to unblock complex dependencies.

Strongly preferred

• Software-defined networking depth (OVN, BGP/FRR, driver-level Neutron work).
• Experience designing highly-available identity across distributed or high-latency links.
• Hardware reliability and firmware-level failure analysis.
• Identity and secrets modernization (Okta, Keycloak, Vault, Barbican).
• Infrastructure-as-code at scale (Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD for infrastructure.

What success looks like

First 90 days : fluent in the platforms architecture; Owning a modernization design and shepherding a pilot environment through to a clean handover; A migration plan with named owners and dates.

First year : Measurable improvement in platform reliability and operability; Modern deployment and Day-2 practices adopted by the team; Reduced single-points-of-knowledge; The team leveling up around your standard.

How we work

• We value engineers who diagnose before they conclude, write things down, and finish what they start. Blameless, evidence-based, and collaborative — we expect strong technical opinions held with humility and backed by data.