Infrastructure Engineer

Nscale

11d•$150,000 - $220,000

About The Position

Infrastructure Engineer at Nscale sit inside the Operational engineering team. The Operational engineering team is responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and continuous improvement of the infrastructure stack that underpins all internal and customer-facing services. This includes all components below the hypervisor, with a strong focus on OpenStack, storage systems, Proxmox, and critical supporting services such as DNS, DHCP, and infrastructure automation. This team ensures high levels of availability, scalability, automation, and security for the infrastructure layers they own. This team acts as a 3/4th line escalation point for support organisations, as well as providing subject matter expertise to pre-sales and other groups within the organisation.

Requirements

Strong experience with Linux systems administration
Strong experience of designing and building automation of both physical and virtual infrastructure using tools like Ansible.
Strong Python and Bash.
Strong experience of deploying, managing, upgrading and operating large OpenStack clusters.
Strong troubleshooting experience of linux and services running on linux

Nice To Haves

Indepth knowledge of Ironic a plus
Indepth knowledge of Neutron/OVN/OVS a plus
Strong experience of deploying managing automating Proxmox

Responsibilities

Designing, implementing, and operating scalable and resilient infrastructure platforms, with a strong focus on OpenStack, Proxmox, Ceph, and supporting critical services such as DNS, DHCP, and configuration management.
Continuously improving automation for provisioning, monitoring, patching, and recovery using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools.
Collaborating with internal teams to ensure infrastructure solutions meet performance, availability, and security requirements.
Acting as a 3rd/4th line escalation point for complex infrastructure issues, and working closely with support teams to resolve problems and identify root causes.
Contributing to infrastructure roadmap planning, including capacity management, performance tuning, and introducing new technologies.
Supporting pre-sales and solution design efforts by providing technical expertise on infrastructure capabilities and best practices.
Ensuring all infrastructure platforms adhere to compliance, security, and operational standards.
Participating in on-call rotations and incident response activities for critical infrastructure services.