Open Stack Platform Engineer

As a OpenStack Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and maintaining reliable and scalable OpenStack infrastructure. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure platform availability, security, performance, and operational efficiency. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in OpenStack, Kubernetes, and Red Hat Linux, with solid troubleshooting, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Key Responsibilities:

. Design, implement, and maintain Red Hat OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure solutions.

. Develop and optimize automation scripts for deployment and management of OpenStack environments.

. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate OpenStack with other systems, including Kubernetes and OpenShift.

. Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues related to OpenStack components and underlying infrastructure.

. Implement security best practices and ensure compliance with organizational policies.

. Contribute to capacity planning, performance optimization, and scalability of OpenStack environments.

. Assist in change management of OpenStack platform for new versions, hotfixes, SysAdmin tasks, etc.

. Explore and implement Agentic AI and AIOps solutions to enhance OpenStack administration and operational efficiency.

. Leverage AI-assisted automation for monitoring, troubleshooting, incident analysis, and remediation of OpenStack environments.

. Develop, Integrate AI agents with OpenStack APIs and automation tools to streamline infrastructure operations.

. Work with experienced team members to conduct root cause analysis of issues, review new and existing code and/or perform unit testing.

. Author/edit system documentation/playbook(s).

. May serve as a mentor on procedural matters to less experienced internal and third-party team members.

Requirement:

. Relevant university degree with at least 5+ years of relevant working experience.

. Expertise with Red Hat or any OpenStack platform.

. Expertise with Kubernetes.

. Expertise in Red Hat Linux administration.

. Experience in infrastructure provisioning with VMware ESX environment and monitoring with Prometheus and Ops.

. Experience integrating with Elastic Stack.

. Familiarity with Generative AI, LLMs, Agentic AI, and AIOps concepts for infrastructure operations.

. Experience or exposure to AI agents and AI-assisted automation for cloud/OpenStack administration.

. Understanding of integrating AI/LLM capabilities with APIs, Python, Ansible, or Terraform is preferred.

. Red Hat/OpenStack certifications in Linux and OpenStack administration preferred.

. Experience working with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform is preferred.

. Demonstrates strong customer service awareness and orientation.

. Ability to establish new standards for quality, performance, or productivity.

. Understanding of application development lifecycles, as well as practical experience working with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools as part of the OpenStack platform lifecycle, will be useful.