Mid/Senior OpenStack Engineer

At CloudFerro, technologies are built for Europe’s leading scientific and space organisations including ESA, EUMETSAT, ECMWF, Mercator Ocean International, DLR, and EGI. The role contributes to Earth Observation sector projects aiming at better understanding and analysis of the planet.

• Deep, production-grade knowledge of OpenStack, including various deployment and upgrade methods.
• Experience administering Linux operating systems, including Python and Shell.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools such as Ansible, Git, Terraform, and Kolla/Kolla-Ansible.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Fluency in English.

Nice to have:

• Practical experience building Software-Defined Data Centers, including Bare Metal provisioning.
• Knowledge of SDN technologies such as Contrail/Tungsten Fabric with deployment and maintenance experience.
• Ability to develop OpenStack services demonstrated through upstream commits.
• Experience building and maintaining large-scale OpenStack clouds (minimum several hundred compute nodes).
• Ability to scale and tune OpenStack or Ceph across multiple dimensions.
• Experience working with MySQL/PostgreSQL, including high availability and replication techniques.
• Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.

• Designing and developing cloud environments, including testing, tuning, and creating new functionalities for customers worldwide.
• Resolving complex system issues, including critical “0‑day” incidents.
• Standardizing and automating infrastructure across large-scale environments.
• Establishing system best practices and contributing to long-term architectural improvements.
• Collaborating with SysAdmins and Development teams on system and network configuration as well as ongoing administrative operations.