Senior DevOps Engineer, OpenStack Team

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

📋 Description

• Become a member of the MOSK (Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes) product team, where OpenStack, Kubernetes, and product engineering intersect.

• Shape the MOSK roadmap and backlog by providing technical insights on feature feasibility, scalability, and maintainability.

• Assess upstream OpenStack code, specifications, blueprints, and documentation to determine the viability of customer feature requests.

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

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

• Establish test scenarios and verify upstream code behavior in simulated or production-like environments.

• Integrate validated feature support into the MOSK lifecycle management framework.

• Review and enhance product designs, APIs, and implementations.

• Facilitate design discussions, planning meetings, and retrospectives.

• Create, implement, and uphold frameworks, libraries, and internal tools for MOSK development, testing, and lifecycle operations.

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

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

• Troubleshoot and resolve intricate Tier-3 customer production issues related to Kubernetes, OpenStack, networking, storage, and distributed systems.

• Investigate OpenStack service challenges, conduct code-level root-cause analyses, and contribute minor upstream fixes.

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

• Oversee and enhance development, staging, and validation environments that replicate customer deployments.

• 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 an SRE role.

• In-depth knowledge of operating systems and the ability to debug and optimize underperforming systems.

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

• Experience in managing and configuring networking equipment.

• Practical knowledge of SaltStack, Puppet, Ansible, or Chef in medium and large environments.

• Hands-on experience with Terraform.

• Proficiency in Docker and Kubernetes within production settings.

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

• Solid experience with Jenkins and developing reliable build/release pipelines.

• Familiarity with code review systems.

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

• Strong scripting skills in Bash, Groovy, or Python; at least one is mandatory.

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

• Thorough understanding of OpenStack architecture and experience operating it in production is a plus.

• Knowledge and experience with SDN solutions, such as Open Virtual Network and Open vSwitch, is a plus.

• Experience managing and utilizing OpenSearch, Grafana, and Prometheus stacks is a bonus.

• Contributions to open-source projects are welcomed.

• Proficient in English at an intermediate level, both spoken and written.

• Strong customer-facing communication skills and diplomacy.

• Ability to collaborate with geographically distributed international teams.

• Analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving capabilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Global, collaborative, remote-first culture.

• Opportunity to influence cloud and AI modernization.

• High-impact enterprise accounts with potential for growth.

• Passionate, skilled, and engaging colleagues.

• Open-source innovation.

• Participation in conferences and working groups.

• Customized workstation (macOS, Windows).

• Professional development and training opportunities.

• Competitive compensation package.

• Performance incentives.

• Opportunities for career advancement.