Senior OpenStack DevOps Engineer

Senior OpenStack DevOps Engineer

Location: California

Duration: Contract

Rate: DOE U.S. Citizens and those who are authorized to work independently in the United States are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time

Requirements

• 8–9+ years of experience managing and automating large-scale OpenStack cloud environments
• Expert in Infrastructure-as-Code (Ansible, Terraform, Pulumi)
• Strong knowledge of OpenStack services: Neutron, Octavia, Manila, Cinder, Nova, Ironic, Glance
• Linux systems engineering (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu), scripting (Python, Bash, Go)
• Git, CI/CD pipelines, test frameworks
• Networking (L2/L3, VXLAN, Geneve), load balancing, storage (iSCSI, NFS, CEPH)
• Experience with high-availability and multi-region OpenStack clusters
• Container tech (Docker, Kubernetes) a plus
• Technical documentation, community contributions a plus
• Preferred: Upstream OpenStack contributions, Keystone federation, Barbican, Ceilometer, security best practices, telco/edge cloud background, automated OpenStack test environments, bachelor's degree or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Design & implement multi-tenant OpenStack infrastructure aligned with community standards
• Automate provisioning, lifecycle management & configuration using IaC tools
• Maintain and extend integrations for core OpenStack services (Neutron, Octavia, Manila, Cinder, Nova, Ironic, Glance)
• Contribute to upstream OpenStack projects (bug fixes, drivers, docs)
• Build CI/CD pipelines for OpenStack updates, testing & rollbacks
• Develop monitoring, alerting, and healing mechanisms with GitOps and observability tools (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana)
• Ensure HA, disaster recovery, and scale-out operations
• Troubleshoot and optimize OpenStack performance across control & data planes
• Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and RCA for reliability issues