Senior DevOps Engineer, OpenStack

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland.

📋 Description

• Provide technical contributions to the MOSK roadmap and backlog.

• Assess customer feature requests by reviewing upstream OpenStack code, specifications, blueprints, and documentation.

• Design, implement, and document lifecycle management for OpenStack on Kubernetes.

• Focus on non-disruptive upgrades, patching, scaling, rollback strategies, and ensuring upgrade compatibility.

• Define testing scenarios and confirm upstream code behavior in simulated or production-like environments.

• Integrate feature support into MOSK lifecycle management processes.

• Review product designs, APIs, and implementations for robustness, security, and overall developer experience.

• Facilitate design discussions, planning sessions, and retrospectives.

• Design, implement, and maintain frameworks, libraries, and internal tools for MOSK development, testing, and lifecycle operations.

• Develop and enhance automation for deploying and managing OpenStack-on-Kubernetes environments.

• Create, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and integrations with external systems.

• Provide Tier-3 support by diagnosing complex customer production issues related to Kubernetes, OpenStack, networking, storage, and distributed systems.

• Investigate OpenStack service issues, analyze root causes at the code level, and contribute minor upstream fixes.

• Analyze performance bottlenecks and offer fixes, optimizations, and tuning recommendations.

• Manage and enhance development, staging, and validation environments.

• Act as a technical authority on MOSK and OpenStack behavior.

• Provide engineering-level insights to documentation, field, and enablement teams.

• Engage in technical reviews, demonstrations, and knowledge-sharing sessions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on administration experience with Linux (CentOS, Ubuntu, RHEL) as a server platform.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

• Background in software development, Systems Administration, or SRE roles.

• In-depth knowledge of operating systems; capability to debug and tune underperforming systems and resolve software and hardware issues.

• Strong understanding of networking technologies, including protocols, firewalls, and VPNs.

• Experience in managing and configuring networking equipment.

• Practical experience with SaltStack, Puppet, Ansible, or Chef in medium to large-scale environments.

• Hands-on experience with Terraform.

• Expert-level proficiency with Docker and Kubernetes in production settings.

• Comprehensive understanding and practical experience with Kubernetes operators and Helm.

• Strong background with Jenkins and reliable build/release pipelines.

• Familiarity with code-review systems.

• Understanding of cloud environments such as OpenStack, AWS, GCP, or Azure.

• Proficient scripting skills in Bash, Groovy, and Python, with at least one being mandatory.

• Mid-level experience with Go or C is advantageous.

• Intermediate proficiency in English, both spoken and written.

• Strong customer-facing communication skills and diplomatic approach.

• Ability to collaborate with geographically distributed international teams.

• Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving abilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Work within a global, collaborative, remote-first culture.

• Customized workstation options (macOS, Windows).

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Competitive salary package.

• Performance-based incentives.

• Opportunities for career advancement.

• Attendance at conferences and working groups.

• Environment that fosters open-source innovation.

• Remote-first working arrangement.