About The Role
We are seeking a Senior OpenStack Engineer (Cloud Specialist) to lead the architecture, development, and support of Ishans next-generation cloud platform deployed at GIFT City (Gandhinagar) and regional Data Centers in Mumbai and Chennai. This role will focus on designing and managing scalable Red Hat OpenStack and OpenShift environments to deliver robust public cloud services to enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
You will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the cloud platform and will play a critical role in architecting, upgrading, enhancing, and integrating key services and components. This includes working with containers, orchestration tools, and software-defined storage Responsibilities :
- Design, deploy, and maintain highly available OpenStack infrastructure and services across data centers.
- Manage and monitor the Red Hat OpenStack and OpenShift environments with a focus on performance, scalability, and availability.
- Lead cloud capacity planning, infrastructure automation, and high-availability strategies.
- Act as the technical lead for architecture discussions, system upgrades, and platform enhancements.
- Design and manage container-based applications using Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, LXC, and LXD.
- Automate container deployment and lifecycle management.
- Support microservices-based architecture deployments and upgrades.
- Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Ansible for repeatable deployments, configuration management, and automation.
- Participate in CI/CD pipeline creation and integration with cloud services.
- Ensure secure automation practices are implemented and documented.
- Implement and manage Ceph-based software-defined storage (block, object, and file).
- Optimize storage provisioning, monitoring, and troubleshooting performance or availability issues.
- Monitor the health of cloud services and proactively respond to infrastructure and application-level incidents.
- Conduct root cause analysis and performance tuning.
- Provide 24x7 support for production platforms as needed.
- Contribute to the cloud product roadmap by identifying new capabilities, third-party integrations, and
industry best practices.
- Evaluate and implement open-source or commercial solutions that enhance cloud platform features.
- Work closely with internal engineering, product, and operations teams for service Skills & Qualifications :
- Minimum 7+ years of hands-on experience with OpenStack cloud platform deployments and administration.
- Strong expertise in Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) and Red Hat OpenShift.
- Experience with Linux OS administration (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu).
- Proficiency with containerization technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, LXC/LXD.
- Experience in infrastructure automation using Ansible.
- Practical experience managing and scaling Ceph storage.
- Understanding of cloud network concepts (SDN, load balancers, firewalls, virtual networks).
- Knowledge of virtualization platforms such as KVM or QEMU.
- Solid experience in performance tuning, patch management, and upgrades.
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