Seeking a highly motivated OpenStack Platform architect to help evolve our global cloud platforms. You will be part of a global team responsible for architecting and evolving OpenStack HPC cloud platform. The ideal candidate would have a deep technical understanding of OpenStack best practices.
Key Job Responsibilities
- Architect, and enhance existing OpenStack HPC cloud Platforms.
- Develop technology solutions that meet the current and future needs of Company
- Design customized OpenStack architectures tailored to our workload in collaboration with compute, network, and storage vendors. This includes CPU and GPU compute, interconnect, and storage components.
- Assist with certification processes to ensure compliance.
- Work alongside Global network architects to design networks to support Company's OpenStack Platform.
- Ensure optimal deployment of production solutions.
- Function as a high-level expert who can deal with escalated Cloud hardware & software issues.
- Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst our operations teams.
- Design and perform benchmarks to evaluate products, solutions, and vendors.
- Support procurement of system components by evaluating technologies/sources, preparing specifications, and evaluating proposals
- Documenting all OpenStack architecture components, configurations, and changes in the Enterprise Architecture tool.
- Maintaining and updating the Enterprise Architecture tool to reflect changes in the OpenStack infrastructure.
- Working closely with IT leadership to develop and maintain OpenStack architecture standards, documentation, and procedures.
Qualifications
- 3 to 5-years’ experience in architecting and deploying OpenStack Platforms
- A background in High-performance Computing
- Extensive expertise in compute, networking and storage, in both hardware (CPUs, accelerators, interconnects, storage, etc.) and software (Linux components, HPC tools and parallel file systems).
- Extensive experience with Linux.
- Proficient automation skills with multiple configuration management systems such as Terraform, Ansible, or other similar tools.
- Experience with git and git workflows
- Proficient skills in leveraging CI and CD tools to automate testing and deployment.
- Experience with Ceph Object storage
- Experience with Compliance Certifications like ISO or SOC2
- Proven experience in fixing operational issues for large-scale infrastructures.
- Experience using and adapting to new technologies.
- Experience communicating effectively across internal and external organizations.
