Senior Bare Metal Platform Engineer — OpenStack Ironic Specialist

Nscale; Greater London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive compensation package

Performance reviews every 12 months

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan participation

Job summary

Nscale is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack Ironic Specialist) to design and operate bare metal provisioning platforms. You will play a key role in the Infrastructure Engineering team, collaborating with various departments to enhance the infrastructure stack for both internal and client-facing services. Strong experience with OpenStack Ironic, automation, and Linux systems is essential. The role offers a competitive salary and a flexible working environment.

Qualifications

• Strong experience operating Linux systems and troubleshooting production infrastructure.
• Strong specialist knowledge of OpenStack Ironic and the surrounding provisioning ecosystem.
• Strong understanding of bare metal provisioning concepts including PXE/iPXE, DHCP, TFTP/HTTP boot.
• Strong experience designing and building automation for physical and virtual infrastructure using tools such as Ansible.
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash.

Responsibilities

• Design scalable and resilient bare metal provisioning platforms with a strong focus on OpenStack Ironic.
• Own the full lifecycle of physical infrastructure including discovery, enrolment, provisioning.
• Manage and improve integrations between Ironic and related OpenStack services.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across provisioning pipelines and hardware compatibility.

Skills

Operating Linux systems

OpenStack Ironic knowledge

Bare metal provisioning concepts

Out‑of‑band management technologies

Automation with Ansible

Scripting skills in Python

Troubleshooting provisioning issues

Infrastructure reliability

Cross-team collaboration

Upstream open-source community contribution

Job description

Nscale is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack Ironic Specialist) to design and operate bare metal provisioning platforms. You will play a key role in the Infrastructure Engineering team, collaborating with various departments to enhance the infrastructure stack for both internal and client-facing services. Strong experience with OpenStack Ironic, automation, and Linux systems is essential. The role offers a competitive salary and a flexible working environment.