Senior OpenStack DevOps Engineer | Contract | Remote (California)

Job Title: Senior OpenStack DevOps Engineer
Location: Remote (California-based client)
Work Hours: 7:00 AM 4:00 PM PST
Experience: 8 9+ Years
Employment Type: Contract / Long-term

Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior OpenStack DevOps Engineer with strong experience designing, automating, and operating large-scale OpenStack cloud environments. The ideal candidate will have deep hands-on expertise across core OpenStack services, Infrastructure-as-Code, Linux systems, and cloud networking, with a strong focus on automation, scalability, and high availability.

Required Skills & Experience

• 8 9+ years of hands-on experience with large-scale OpenStack environments

• Strong expertise in Ansible, Terraform, or Pulumi (Infrastructure-as-Code)

• In-depth knowledge of OpenStack services: Neutron, Nova, Cinder, Glance, Octavia, Manila, Ironic

• Strong Linux systems engineering (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu)

• Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or Go

• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing

• Strong understanding of networking concepts (L2/L3, VLAN, VXLAN, Geneve, SDN)

• Experience with storage technologies: Ceph, iSCSI, NFS

• Proven experience with high-availability or multi-region OpenStack deployments

Preferred Qualifications

• Contributions to upstream OpenStack projects or SIGs/WGs

• Knowledge of Keystone, RBAC, Barbican, Ceilometer, Gnocchi, Aodh

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes

• Familiarity with security best practices (CIS, NIST, tenant isolation)

• Background in telco, edge cloud, or large enterprise environments

• Experience with OpenStack testing tools (Tempest, Rally)

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement multi-tenant OpenStack cloud infrastructure

• Automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management of OpenStack services

• Enhance and maintain integrations for Neutron, Nova, Cinder, Glance, Octavia, Manila, and Ironic

• Implement CI/CD pipelines for OpenStack upgrades and patching

• Develop monitoring, alerting, and self-healing solutions (Prometheus, Grafana, GitOps)

• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and scalability

• Troubleshoot complex platform and performance issues

• Participate in on-call support and incident response