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Senior Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack Ironic Specialist)
nSCALE · San Francisco, CA, United States
San Francisco, CA, United StatesOnsite
Remuneration
Bonus, equity, medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation
Location
San Francisco, CA, United States
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
The Infrastructure Engineer designs, operates, and improves large-scale bare metal provisioning platforms, specializing in OpenStack Ironic and automated hardware lifecycle management. The role integrates Ironic with services such as Nova, Neutron, Glance, Keystone, and Placement; automates hardware onboarding and deployment; and resolves complex provisioning and hardware issues. It also supports critical infrastructure through incident response and contributes to upstream OpenStack development.
Benefits
BonusEquityMedical insuranceDental insuranceVision insuranceFlexible paid time offParental leaveRetirement plan participation
Qualifications
- Experience operating Linux systems and troubleshooting production infrastructure.
- Specialist knowledge of OpenStack Ironic and its provisioning ecosystem.
- Understanding of PXE/iPXE, DHCP, TFTP/HTTP boot, BMC technologies, RAID, firmware management, disk imaging, and node lifecycle states.
- Experience with out-of-band management technologies such as Redfish, IPMI, or vendor management interfaces.
- Experience automating physical and virtual infrastructure with tools such as Ansible.
- Scripting skills in Python and Bash.
- Experience troubleshooting hardware integration issues across server, network, and management layers.
- Experience operating infrastructure at scale with attention to reliability, repeatability, and operational safety.
- Ability to collaborate across infrastructure, support, and architecture teams.
- Experience with upstream OpenStack, Ironic, Metal3, or related infrastructure communities is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Design and operate scalable bare metal provisioning platforms centered on OpenStack Ironic.
- Manage physical infrastructure discovery, enrollment, provisioning, cleaning, deprovisioning, and hardware state.
- Integrate Ironic with Nova, Neutron, Glance, Keystone, and Placement.
- Automate hardware onboarding, firmware and BIOS configuration, deployment, validation, and recovery.
- Troubleshoot provisioning pipelines, network boot, BMC interfaces, image deployment, and hardware compatibility.
- Serve as an advanced escalation point for bare metal and provisioning incidents.
- Participate in on-call rotations and critical infrastructure incident response.
- Contribute bug reports, testing, reviews, design discussions, and code to upstream OpenStack bare metal projects.
- Support platform upgrades, capacity planning, hardware qualification, and infrastructure roadmap development.
Skills
AnsibleBashLinuxOpenStackPython
Work schedule
On-call rotation
Industry
AI infrastructureGPU cloud
Relocation
No