Solutions Architect Openstack and Cloud Platform Engineer

What youll work on

Youll be part of a hands-on engineering team that designs builds and runs cloud platforms for real customers.

Your work will include:

• Designing and operating OpenStack-based cloud platforms owning the full stack from control plane to data plane.

• Building and running Kubernetes clusters on top of or alongside OpenStack including networking and storage integrations.

• Automating everything possible using IaC and configuration management.

• Debugging hard problems across compute storage networking and orchestration layers.

• Improving reliability observability capacity planning and operational readiness of platforms in production.

• Working closely with customers architects and internal teams to translate requirements into working systems.

• Raising the bar on security access control and compliance-aligned deployments.

This is a delivery-first role. Youll design implement operate and improve often in that order.

Must-have skills

Were looking for strong fundamentals and proven hands-on experience.

• Deep understanding of OpenStack architecture and core services: Nova Neutron Cinder Glance Keystone Horizon Heat.

• Strong grasp of Kubernetes concepts cluster internals networking models storage patterns and deployment approaches.

• Solid Linux administration skills with experience tuning systems for performance and stability.

• Hands-on experience with KVM/QEMU virtualization and hypervisor-level tuning.

• Strong networking fundamentals including SDN/NFV concepts Open vSwitch VXLAN/GRE overlays and multi-tenant networking.

• Experience designing and operating storage systems using Ceph NFS iSCSI object storage and HA setups.

• Proven automation experience using Ansible Terraform Heat templates and Helm.

• Ability to troubleshoot issues spanning multiple layers of the stack not just individual components.

• Experience working with API-driven platforms and REST-based integrations.

• Exposure to monitoring logging alerting and capacity planning in distributed systems.

• Practical understanding of security fundamentals: RBAC TLS secrets management and compliance-aware deployments.

Good-to-have skills

These arent deal-breakers but they help you ramp up faster.

• Experience running OpenStack and Kubernetes in production at scale.

• Exposure to hybrid cloud or multi-cloud environments.

• Familiarity with SRE practices and reliability engineering.

• Experience building or extending operators controllers or platform tooling.

• Contributions to open-source projects or internal platform frameworks.

How we work

• We value engineers who understand systems deeply and take ownership.

• We prefer automation over heroics and clarity over complexity.

• We optimise for long-term operability not just day-one success.

• We work closely with customers and believe trust is built through delivery.

Who will do well here

• You like working close to the metal and dont shy away from ambiguity.

• Youre comfortable debugging issues that dont have clean boundaries.

• You think in trade-offs failure modes and operational impact.

• You communicate clearly and document decisions so others can build on them.