Open Stack Engineer

At Radiant Digital we provide IT solutions and consulting services to help government agencies and businesses in the USA Canada the Middle East and Southeast Asia. On the federal side we support agencies like NASA the Department of State (DOS) the IRS ACL ACFUSDA and many others along with numerous state and local government agencies.

We work with industries like telecom healthcare entertainment oil and gas offering solutions designed to meet their specific needs. We focus on improving systems making better use of data and updating applications to keep up with changing markets.

Position: Open Stack Engineer

Location: Hybrid - Dallas TX

Duration: Long Term

Job Description:

As an OpenStack Engineer youll be at the forefront of delivering our cutting-edge on-premises 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 scale-out 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.

Required skills

Over 5 years of experience with OpenStack in production environments

Experience managing and operating CEPH Storage clusters

Expertise in architecting managing and upgrading large-scale 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