OpenStack Engineer Contract
OpenStack Engineer Contract
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OpenStack Engineer
Do you want to tackle the biggest questions in finance with near infinite compute power at your fingertips
GResearch is a leading quantitative research and technology firm with offices in London and Dallas. We are proud to employ some of the best people in their field and to nurture their talent in a dynamic flexible and highly stimulating culture where worldbeating ideas are cultivated and rewarded.
This is a role based in our new Soho Place office opened in 2023 in the heart of Central London and home to our Research Lab.
The Role
As an OpenStack Engineer youll be at the forefront of delivering our cuttingedge onpremises cloud platform powered by OpenStack. Youll play a crucial role in designing building and supporting this platform driving its adoption and expansion. Collaboration is key and youll work closely with Linux Engineers Developers Security experts and other infrastructure teams.
Our engineering efforts prioritize automation Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD tools and IaC methodologies. By leveraging open source tooling and best practices we aim to accelerate delivery and foster a culture of Continuous Improvement throughout the organization. Join us and be part of a team at the forefront of private cloud computing.
Key responsibilities of the role include:
- Designing deploying and maintaining a highly scalable and secure cloud platform
- Ensuring workloads running on the private cloud platform are deployed optimally
- Recommending and implementing continuous improvements to the platform
- Contributing to the upstream OpenStack open source project
- Performing diagnostics and tuning
- Capacity planning to ensure seamless scaleout without impacting services and to meet the growing demands of the business
- Security hardening the platforms and supporting systems
- Being an evangelist of the platform liaising with users to gather feedback providing support and working on feature requests
- Mentoring junior team members
You will be part of an exciting and challenging work environment working with some of the best engineers in the industry. You will benefit from investment in technology training conference attendance career development and crossteam growth opportunities.
Who are we looking for
The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:
- Over five years of experience with OpenStack in production environments
- Experience managing and operating CEPH Storage clusters
- Expertise in architecting managing and upgrading largescale OpenStack deployments
- Strong Linux skills with excellent troubleshooting abilities
- Advanced proficiency in infrastructure automation tools such as Ansible and Terraform
- Expertise in at least one programming language with a preference for Python
- A solid understanding of networking concepts and protocols
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD and/or VCS tools such as Jenkins and Git
- Familiarity with container technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
- Good knowledge of server hardware including BMC/Redfish
Beneficial but not required
- Experience with Kolla Ansible or similar OpenStack deployment tools
- Bare metal provisioning experience using Ironic or MaaS
- Experience with Hashicorp products in particular with Vault and Terraform
- Experience deploying and managing HPC clusters
- Experience with Infiniband
- SRE experience and the ability to able to implement effective monitoring solutions SLIs and SLOs
GResearch is committed to cultivating and preserving an inclusive work environment. We are an ideasdriven business and we place great value on diversity of experience and opinions.
We want to ensure that applicants receive a recruitment experience that enables them to perform at their best. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation please let us know in the relevant section
Employment Type
Contract
