Overview
Remote
$900 - $100
Contract - W2
Contract - 12 Month(s)
Skills
open stack
terraform
neutron
ceph
bare metal
Job Details
Senior Cloud Operations Engineer OpenStack | Remote (U.S. Only)
Contract to Hire | No C2Cs.
Job Description: We re hiring a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to join our client s team who are an innovative cloud communications platform empowering Managed Service Providers (MSPs). In this role, you ll take ownership of our hybrid cloud infrastructure, helping us scale and optimize our multi-data-center OpenStack environment. This is a remote position (U.S. only), with occasional on-site travel to support deployments and hardware integration.
Key Responsibilities:
- Scale and optimize OpenStack clusters across nine private data centers
- Own the full lifecycle of hardware procurement, rack install, and integration
- Work directly with colocation providers on power/cooling and capacity planning
- Build infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and MaaS
- Develop observability pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
- Collaborate with infrastructure and reliability teams to build next-gen architecture
What You ll Bring:
- Strong experience with OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone) and Ceph
- Proficiency with Terraform, Pulumi, OpenTofu, or similar IaC tools
- Deep Linux experience, including bare-metal performance tuning
- Familiarity with networking (VLANs, routing, SD-WAN, Direct Connect)
- Experience managing hardware procurement and colocation SLAs
- Bonus: Kubernetes, OpenShift, APM, or DCIM tools
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