Title: Sr. OpenStack / Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

Location: Remote – India

Type: Full-time

Experience- 6+yrs

About the role

We’re looking for a senior platform architect to lead the design and delivery of our private-cloud infrastructure on Kubernetes-native OpenStack. You’ll own the architecture for a large, multi-region OpenStack environment — driving its modernization, reliability, and long-term operating model — and act as the senior technical anchor the rest of the platform team builds around.

This is a hands-on architecture role for someone who is equally comfortable making control-plane design decisions, writing the plan that sequences a multi-quarter program, and partnering across teams to land it. You turn ambiguous, large-scale infrastructure goals into clear designs with owners, milestones, and measurable outcomes.

What you’ll own

- Cloud architecture for a multi-region OpenStack platform: Nova scheduling and capacity strategy, Neutron networking (OVS/OVN), Cinder/Glance, Keystone identity, and Placement.
- Platform modernization: designing and sequencing the move to a Kubernetes-native OpenStack model (e.g., OpenStack-Helm / Atmosphere-style deployments), including region rollout strategy, upgrade and rollback paths, and cutover planning.
- Storage architecture: Ceph design and operations (RBD/RGW, CRUSH, rebalancing, tiering) to enable capabilities such as live migration and resilient shared storage.
- Control-plane resilience: highly-available identity and database design, including the trade-offs of running stateful services across regions.
- Day-2 operations: the runbooks, SLOs, observability, and operational discipline that keep the platform healthy after deployment.
- Technical leadership: setting the engineering standard for design, documentation, and delivery, and mentoring senior and mid-level engineers toward it.
- Cross-functional delivery: partnering with networking, operations,



and infrastructure teams to resolve dependencies and keep programs moving.

Must-have experience

- Architected and operated OpenStack at scale in production — multi-region, hundreds or more of hypervisors — with depth across Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, and Placement.
- Kubernetes-native OpenStack experience: running the OpenStack control plane as Kubernetes workloads (OpenStack-Helm, Atmosphere, or equivalent).
- Strong Ceph design and operational experience for block and object storage.
- Led a platform migration or modernization program end to end — sequencing, risk management, cutover, and rollback — not just isolated component work.
- Bare-metal provisioning and lifecycle tooling (MAAS, Ironic, or similar).
- GitOps delivery (Argo CD / Flux) and contemporary observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or equivalents).
- A track record of influencing across team and org boundaries to unblock complex dependencies.

Strongly preferred

- Software-defined networking depth (OVN, BGP/FRR, driver-level Neutron work).
- Experience designing highly-available identity across distributed or high-latency links.
- Hardware reliability and firmware-level failure analysis.
- Identity and secrets modernization (Okta, Keycloak, Vault, Barbican).
- Infrastructure-as-code at scale (Ansible, Terraform) and CI/CD for infrastructure.

What success looks like First 90 days: fluent in the platform’s architecture; owning a modernization design and shepherding a pilot environment through to a clean handover; a migration plan with named owners and dates.

First year: measurable improvement in platform reliability and operability; modern deployment and Day-2 practices adopted by the team; reduced single-points-of-knowledge; the team leveling up around your standard.

How we work

We value engineers who diagnose before they conclude, write things down, and finish what they start. Blameless, evidence-based, and collaborative — we expect strong technical opinions held with humility and backed by data.

📌 Sr. Openstack Engineer (India)
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