Lead Private Cloud Engineer — OpenStack Platform

Arm Limited; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Recruitment accommodations

Job summary

Arm Limited is building a greenfield, multi-tenant private cloud platform based on OpenStack. You will design, develop and operate the platform, driving automation, APIs and end-user experience across compute, networking and storage layers.

The role involves leading incident response, improving scalability and performance, and mentoring engineers in a DevOps/SRE culture within a hybrid working framework.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with OpenStack projects (Ironic, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, OVN/OVS, Glance).
• Expertise in Ansible and Terraform for infrastructure automation.
• Solid Linux internals knowledge and scripting.
• Strong Python and C programming skills.
• Experience designing distributed systems and APIs for multi-tenant platforms.
• Proven ability to operate large secure production multi-tenant systems at scale.
• Experience with GitOps driven CI/CD pipelines and DevOps/SRE environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate OpenStack services across environments.
• Own IaC practices, defining reusable modules for reliable builds.
• Develop platform services and APIs using Python.
• Improve reliability, scalability and performance of the platform.
• Lead incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Collaborate across compute, networking and storage layers.
• Mentor engineers and shape technical direction.

Skills

OpenStack

Ansible/Terraform

Linux internals

Python

C

APIs design

Distributed systems

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps / SRE

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Jenkins

ArgoCD/FluxCD

Job description

Arm Limited is building a greenfield, multi-tenant private cloud platform based on OpenStack. You will design, develop and operate the platform, driving automation, APIs and end-user experience across compute, networking and storage layers.

The role involves leading incident response, improving scalability and performance, and mentoring engineers in a DevOps/SRE culture within a hybrid working framework.