OpenStack Administrator

Job Description

Job Description

Open S tack Administrator

Job Details

• Req#: 36354472
• Location: Fully Remote
• Duration: 3 months

Job Overview

• We are seeking an experienced OpenStack Administrator to join the IT Corps team for a special project. The successful candidate will be responsible for deploying, managing, and troubleshooting OpenStack-based infrastructure in R&D lab environments, ensuring high availability, scalability, and performance. This is a hands-on technical role working closely with engineering and DevOps teams across global time zones.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage OpenStack environments (manual and automated using Ansible, Fuel, or Kolla), including Red Hat OpenStack, Mirantis, and other vendor solutions.
• Configure and maintain core OpenStack services: Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, Swift, Heat, Ceilometer.
• Manage multi-tenant cloud environments with quotas, networking, and security groups.
• Perform upgrades across OpenStack releases (e.g., Kilo → Liberty → Mitaka).
• Automate infrastructure provisioning with Ansible, Terraform, and Chef.
• Support bare metal provisioning and virtualization with KVM and VMware ESXi.
• Provision storage backends including Ceph and Cinder volumes.
• Ensure security and compliance via RBAC and Keystone policies.
• Monitor and troubleshoot OpenStack services using Nagios and log analysis.
• Integrate OpenStack with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub, Maven).
• Mentor junior team members and contribute to knowledge sharing within engineering labs.

Required Skills & Experience

• Proven experience configuring and managing OpenStack environments across bare metal, VMs, and containerized platforms.
• Strong knowledge of OpenStack components (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, Swift, Heat).
• Virtualization experience: VMware ESXi, KVM, Docker; Kubernetes/Openshift a plus.
• Linux administration (Ubuntu, RHEL, CentOS, Solaris).
• Infrastructure automation: Ansible, Chef, Puppet, Terraform.
• CI/CD tools: Jenkins, Git, Maven.
• Networking: VLANs, subnets, floating IPs, Neutron SDN services.
• Storage: Ceph, Cinder, Swift, volume snapshots, backups, restores.
• Programming/Scripting: Bash, Python (preferred), Ruby, Perl, C/C++.
• Monitoring: Nagios or equivalent.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified OpenStack Administrator (COA) or equivalent certification.
• AWS architecture knowledge a plus.
• Strong troubleshooting skills and experience in fast-paced, global engineering teams.

Schedule

• NAM hours required, with flexibility for earlier start times to engage with IST-based colleagues.
• 40 hours per week, standard 5-day work schedule.