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This is a remote position. About the RoleWe are seeking a deeply technical Senior OpenStack Engineer to design, build, automate, scale, and operate large-scale production OpenStack environments powering enterprise private clouds, MSP platforms, and high-performance digital twin lab infrastructures.This is not a UI-driven admin role. We are looking for engineers who understand OpenStack at the service, database, messaging, hypervisor, and packet-flow layers individuals who can troubleshoot RabbitMQ queues, debug Neutron agents, tune Ceph latency, and automate full cloud deployments from bare metal upward.You will work on multi-region architectures, high-availability designs,NVMestorage fabrics, SDN integrations, and hybrid cloud platforms supporting global customers.Primary Responsibilities1. OpenStack Architecture & Platform Engineering- Design production-grade OpenStack environments across controller, compute, and storage nodes.- Architect HA control planes usingHAProxy,Keepalived, Galera, and RabbitMQ clustering.- Build scalable cell-based Nova architectures.- Implement multi-region replication strategies.- Perform platform capacitymodelingand growth forecasting.2. Compute Virtualization (Nova)- Nova scheduler tuning and filters.- CPU pinning and isolation.- NUMA topology alignment.-HugePagesconfiguration.- Live migrations and evacuations.- GPU passthrough and SR-IOV provisioning.Hypervisor stack includes KVM, QEMU,Libvirt, andVirtIO.3. Networking & SDN (Neutron)- ML2 plugin architecture.- OVS, OVN, Linux Bridge deployments.- VXLAN, Geneve, VLAN overlays.- DVR and L3 routing.- Floating IP NAT design.- SR-IOV and DPDK acceleration.- Integration with BGP EVPN, MPLS, VRFs, and SD-WAN.4. Storage EngineeringCeph (Primary Requirement)- RBD block storage.-CephFSand RGW object storage.- CRUSH map tuning.- Placement group optimization.-BlueStoreperformance tuning.-NVMeand SSD tiering.Additional exposure toLinstor, DRBD, iSCSI, andNVMe-oFpreferred.5. Image & Lifecycle Services- Glance image pipelines.- QCOW2 optimization.- Cloud-initautomation.- Golden image lifecycle management.6. Identity & Access (Keystone)- RBACmodeling.- LDAP/AD integration.- SAML/SSO federation.- Token lifecycle management.7. Orchestration & Automation- Heat orchestration templates.- Terraform automation.- Ansible playbooks.Originally posted on Himalayas Apply To this Job .
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