OpenStack Platform Engineer
About The Position
The CloudV team drives the evolution of our standardized OpenStack virtualization infrastructure, empowering product teams across the organization to deliver high-impact solutions. As part of a platform in its early lifecycle, this role tackles complex technical challenges involving core functionality, tenant user experience, and the development lifecycle. The primary focus remains on streamlining operational processes to ensure running virtualized workloads is frictionless and efficient for all tenants. You will contribute to a foundational technology stack within a distributed and diverse environment of developers and operators committed to infrastructure excellence. As a Software Engineer on the CloudV team, you will play a pivotal role in the architectural evolution and stabilization of the OpenStack platform, driving its transition from an early-lifecycle product to a mature, enterprise-grade virtualization service. By owning the end-to-end lifecycle automation of the platform, you will directly reduce manual intervention and enhance the reliability of the underlying infrastructure for all internal product teams. Your contributions to observability frameworks and telemetry pipelines will provide critical insights into system health, enabling proactive issue resolution and superior performance metrics. Ultimately, your work on new tenant-facing functionality will simplify how developers consume cloud resources, fostering a more agile and frictionless innovation environment across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
- 3+ years of industry experience in infrastructure, virtualization, or cloud engineering
- 1+ years of experience working with a public cloud such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
- 1+ years of experience working with Docker
- 1+ years of experience working with CI/CD or DevOps systems
Nice To Haves
- Professional experience in the management and operation of OpenStack platforms and the design of distributed software systems.
- Proficiency with infrastructure management and automation tools including Cisco Intersight, UCS Manager, Ansible, and Terraform.
- Demonstrated expertise in Linux administration, network administration, and specialized Linux networking configurations.
- Technical background in virtualization technologies and containerization platforms such as Docker for infrastructure services.
- Proficiency in Python programming and the development of tools to facilitate platform integration and service operations at scale.
Responsibilities
- Play a pivotal role in the architectural evolution and stabilization of the OpenStack platform.
- Drive the transition of the OpenStack platform from an early-lifecycle product to a mature, enterprise-grade virtualization service.
- Own the end-to-end lifecycle automation of the platform.
- Reduce manual intervention and enhance the reliability of the underlying infrastructure.
- Contribute to observability frameworks and telemetry pipelines.
- Provide critical insights into system health, enabling proactive issue resolution and superior performance metrics.
- Work on new tenant-facing functionality to simplify how developers consume cloud resources.
Benefits
- medical, dental and vision insurance
- a 401(k) plan with a Cisco matching contribution
- paid parental leave
- short and long-term disability coverage
- basic life insurance
- 10 paid holidays per full calendar year
- 1 floating holiday for non-exempt employees
- 1 paid day off for employee’s birthday
- paid year-end holiday shutdown
- 4 paid days off for personal wellness
- 16 days of paid vacation time per full calendar year (non-exempt employees)
- flexible vacation time off program (exempt employees)
- 80 hours of sick time off provided on hire date and each January 1st thereafter
- up to 80 hours of unused sick time carried forward from one calendar year to the next
- Additional paid time away may be requested to deal with critical or emergency issues for family members
- Optional 10 paid days per full calendar year to volunteer
- annual bonuses (for non-sales roles)
- performance-based incentive pay (for sales roles)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
