Senior Private Cloud Engineer: OpenStack & IaC

Arm; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 73,500 - 99,500; Full time

Job summary

Arm is building a greenfield private cloud platform based on OpenStack to provide scalable infrastructure for its engineering teams in Cambridge and globally. You will design, build, and operate the platform with a strong emphasis on automation, APIs, and developer experience, contributing new features to the upstream community while collaborating across compute, storage, and networking domains.

The role emphasizes modern platform engineering practices, 24/7 reliability, and close collaboration

Qualifications

• Experience with Linux systems.
• Hands-on IaC with Terraform, Ansible or similar.
• Experience in a DevOps or SRE environment.
• Programming experience in Python or similar.
• Ability to debug compute, networking, storage in large production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate a secure OpenStack environment.
• Implement systems using Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop automation and tooling to build and extend the platform.
• Support and enhance infrastructure CI/CD pipelines.
• Monitor, identify and fix issues across compute, storage and networking.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams to support frictionless workflows.
• Contribute to 24/7 platform reliability, scalability and performance tuning.

Skills

Linux

Python

DevOps/SRE

Networking concepts

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, ArgoCD, FluxCD)

Job description

Arm is building a greenfield private cloud platform based on OpenStack to provide scalable infrastructure for its engineering teams in Cambridge and globally. You will design, build, and operate the platform with a strong emphasis on automation, APIs, and developer experience, contributing new features to the upstream community while collaborating across compute, storage, and networking domains.

The role emphasizes modern platform engineering practices, 24/7 reliability, and close collaboration