Senior Private Cloud Platform Engineer (OpenStack)

United States Digital Space LLC; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 97,300 - 131,700; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is building a greenfield, multi-tenant private cloud platform based on OpenStack to deliver scalable infrastructure services for engineering teams.

You will own the platform end-to-end, driving platform services, APIs, and automation with a strong emphasis on reliability and end-user experience. This is a hybrid role requiring collaboration across compute, network, and storage domains.

Qualifications

• Experience with OpenStack projects and components.
• Proficient in Ansible/Terraform and automation.
• Strong Linux internals knowledge.
• Python and C programming experience.
• Experience designing distributed systems and APIs.
• Experience operating large multi-tenant systems at scale.
• Full-stack domain expertise across network/storage/compute.
• Hands-on GitOps‑driven CI/CD practices.
• Experience in a DevOps/SRE environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate OpenStack services across multiple environments.
• Own and drive IaC (Terraform, Ansible) practices by defining reusable IaC modules and patterns for reliable and repeatable builds.
• Develop platform services, APIs (FastAPI) and automation using Python.
• Drive improvements in reliability, scalability and performance.
• Lead incident response, fixing and root cause analysis.
• Work across compute, networking and storage layers.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform usability.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to technical direction and standards.

Skills

OpenStack

IaC automation

Linux internals

Python & C

API design

DevOps / SRE

Multi-tenant infra

GitOps CI/CD

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Git

Jenkins

ArgoCD

FluxCD

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is building a greenfield, multi-tenant private cloud platform based on OpenStack to deliver scalable infrastructure services for engineering teams.

You will own the platform end-to-end, driving platform services, APIs, and automation with a strong emphasis on reliability and end-user experience. This is a hybrid role requiring collaboration across compute, network, and storage domains.