Principal Private Cloud Engineer

Job summary

Define and lead the technical strategy for a private cloud platform based on OpenStack, delivering scalable and reliable infrastructure services for engineering teams. The platform underpins large-scale engineering workloads and is central to the organization’s infrastructure strategy. The platform is to be built using modern platform engineering principles, with strong emphasis on automation, APIs, and developer experience. Operate across teams and functions to drive architectural direction and platform evolution, developing the capabilities of the platform as an active participant within the OpenStack community.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise of the OpenStack ecosystem, Linux, and distributed systems.
• Strong software engineering background (Python, APIs, systems design).
• Extensive experience with Ansible, Terraform, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience with large-scale or multi-region systems and operating at significant scale.
• Deep understanding of networking, storage, and Linux systems, both physical and software defined.
• Proven track record in influencing technical direction across teams.
• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms (nice to have).
• Low level debugging, performance, and tuning engineering (nice to have).
• Full stack expertise (nice to have).
• Exposure to IDPs such as Backstage, Roadie (nice to have).

Responsibilities

• Define and design the long-term architecture and strategy for multi-tenant Private Cloud.
• Lead the integration of OpenStack across compute, networking, and storage systems.
• Develop standards for Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), APIs, and automation.
• Drive reliability, scalability, and performance improvements across all platform components.
• Provide technical leadership in collaboration with multiple teams and domains.
• Guide platform engineering practices including CI/CD, telemetry, and observability.
• Solve complex cross-system challenges in distributed environments and HPC.
• Champion and enable seamless adoption of the new platform.
• Partner with Internal Developer Platform teams to ensure a first-class self-service experience.
• Identify and improve workflow friction across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Collaborate with the OSS community to drive upstream feature adoption.

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