[MSO] OpenStack Engineer

Software Mind develops solutions that make an impact for companies around the globe, working with tech giants, unicorns, transformative projects, and emerging technologies.

• At least 3 years administering Linux in production, including operating or implementing OpenStack.
• Daily operation of core services: Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Glance, Cinder, Placement, and Horizon.
• Ability to diagnose failed instance, volume, and network operations using the OpenStack CLI and service logs.
• Understanding of internal platform workings: API, scheduler and agent components, message queue, and state database.
• Experience with OpenStack deployment frameworks, preferably Kolla-Ansible, with containerized services.
• Knowledge of KVM and libvirt sufficient to troubleshoot compute nodes, practical Ansible and Git skills.
• Networking fundamentals: VLANs, routing, NAT, filtering, overlay networks, tenant and provider networks.
• English language proficiency at B2 level for technical documentation and client communication.

Nice to have:

• Experience with OpenStack-Ansible, TripleO, OVN, Open vSwitch, and enterprise storage over NFS or iSCSI.
• Familiarity with Proxmox VE, VMware vSphere, or other virtualisation platforms and migrations.
• Knowledge of Python for operational tooling and API integrations, or Terraform and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to telco workloads or performance tuning technologies such as SR-IOV, DPDK, CPU pinning, and huge pages.
• Certified OpenStack Administrator or certifications in Linux, networking, or cloud.

• Install and configure OpenStack components with Kolla-Ansible according to approved design.
• Prepare infrastructure nodes including operating system, KVM virtualisation, container runtime, network interfaces, and storage access.
• Configure networking and storage: OVN tenant networks, VLAN provider networks, Cinder volume types, and boot from volume scenarios.
• Deploy monitoring and logging tools: Prometheus with exporters, Alertmanager, Grafana, Fluentd, and OpenSearch.
• Handle second line incidents and service requests within agreed service levels.
• Execute planned changes and maintenance: patching, node replacement, virtual machine evacuation, and upgrade support.
• Maintain configuration repositories via merge requests and promote changes between environments.
• Automate repeatable work with Ansible and CI pipelines.
• Participate in on-call rotation.