Role overview

Qualifications

8-9+ years of experience operating and automating large-scale OpenStack cloud environments
Expert-level proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code with Ansible, Terraform, or Pulumi
Strong hands-on knowledge of Neutron, Octavia, Manila, Cinder, Nova, Ironic, and Glance
Strong Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) systems engineering background with advanced scripting in Python, Bash, or Go

Responsibilities

Design and implement multi-tenant OpenStack infrastructure aligned with open community standards
Automate the provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of OpenStack services using Ansible, Terraform, or Pulumi
Extend and maintain integrations for core OpenStack services
Contribute to upstream OpenStack projects when needed

Key facts

Remote from: Anywhere
Full time
Senior (5-10 years)
DevOps Engineer
English

Hard skills

OpenStack Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Ansible Terraform Linux Python (Programming Language) Bash (Scripting Language) CI/CD Software Defined Networking (SDN) Load Balancing High Availability Design Kubernetes Ceilometer Test Automation

Other skills

Problem Solving
Teamwork

About the company

Georgia IT, Inc.

Georgia IT, Inc. provides IT Consulting for a wide range of IT services and custom build turn-key enterprise solutions. GIT specializes in improving business scalability and efficiency through BSM and SBA Solutions. GIT transforms business with service management and service automation solutions. We are BMC & HP partners. GIT Services include custom built enterprise software and customer-centric web portals, network design and implementation, remote and site-to-site VPN, network and server security assessment and setup, server and desktop virtualization, and many others. GIT also provides IT Consulting in many areas such as Disaster Recovery Planning, Enterprise Data Backup Strategy, Long Term Strategic IT Planning and Augmentation Professional Services Solutions. Professional Services Specialties: Business Process Integration, Software Integration & Development, Web portal, Networking, Remote and site-to-site VPN, Virtualization Solutions, Product Development Please contact us Hrus@georgiait.com / uthay@georgiait.com/470-798-5000 x 1010 / (732) 890-2535 direct

Company details

Company size51 - 200

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Job description

Title: Senior OpenStack DevOps Engineer (remote)
work hours- 7.00 am-4.00 pm PST

Core skills

8-9+ years of experience operating and automating large-scale OpenStack cloud environments, preferably in community-driven or upstream-contributing teams
Expert-level proficiency in Infrastructure-as-Code with Ansible, Terraform, or Pulumi
Strong hands-on knowledge of Neutron, Octavia, Manila, Cinder, Nova, Ironic, and Glance
Strong Linux (RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu) systems engineering background with advanced scripting in Python, Bash, or Go
Fluency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and automated test frameworks
Strong understanding of L2/L3 networking, SDN overlays (VXLAN, Geneve), load balancing (Octavia), and storage protocols (SDS) (iSCSI, NFS, CEPH)
Demonstrated success building or maintaining multi-region or high-availability OpenStack clusters
Experience with container technologies (e.g., Docker) and orchestration tools (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus
Ability to write technical documentation and contribute to community wikis or knowledge bases
Preferred Qualifications:
Contributions to upstream OpenStack codebases or participation in SIGs/WGs
Familiarity with RBAC, Keystone federation, Barbican (secrets management), and Ceilometer/Gnocchi/Aodh
Understanding of security best practices for tenant isolation, microsegmentation, and compliance (e.g., CIS, NIST)
Background in telco, edge cloud, or large enterprise infrastructure environments
Experience building and maintaining automated test environments for OpenStack upgrades and validation (e.g., Tempest, Rally, or custom test harnesses)
Bachelor's degree in computer science, IT, Engineering, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience and relevant industry certifications will also be considered

Key Responsibilities :

Design and implement multi-tenant OpenStack infrastructure aligned with open community standards, including network service isolation and tenant-aware resource scheduling
Automate the provisioning, lifecycle management, and configuration of OpenStack services and supporting components using Ansible, Terraform, or Pulumi

Extend and maintain integrations for core OpenStack services:

Neutron: Custom network plugins/drivers, L2/L3 routing, BGP, DHCP, and tenant network segmentation (VLAN, VXLAN, Geneve).
Octavia: HA load balancing with amphora and provider drivers, TLS offloading, Layer 4/7 routing.
Manila: Share drivers for NFS/CIFS, tenant access control, storage backends.
Cinder: Block storage provisioning, volume snapshots, multi-attach, backend tuning.
Nova: Compute resource scheduling, NUMA/cpu pinning, SR-IOV and PCI passthrough.
Ironic: Bare metal provisioning workflows, BIOS/IPMI automation, PXE and UEFI boot configuration.
Glance: Image lifecycle management, backing store optimization, image caching strategies
Contribute to upstream OpenStack projects when needed (bug fixes, driver enhancements, documentation)
Implement continuous delivery pipelines for OpenStack updates, including patch management, service upgrade testing, and rollback procedures
Develop automated monitoring, alerting, and healing mechanisms using GitOps principles and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Loki, Grafana)
Harden services for high availability, disaster recovery, and scale-out operations
Perform deep-dive troubleshooting and performance analysis of OpenStack services across control and data planes
Participate in on-call rotation, incident response, and root cause analysis for platform reliability issues