Openstack Administrator

Pivotdive; Delhi; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Pivotdive is seeking an OpenStack/Linux administrator with extensive experience in OpenStack, cloud computing, virtualization, and configuration management to support private clouds for enterprise projects.

The role covers deploying and upgrading OpenStack components, managing tenants, networks, heat templates and automation with Ansible and Jenkins, plus strong Linux administration.

Experience with Neutron, Nova, Cinder, Glance and Heat is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing multiple private clouds for enterprises.
• Upgrading OpenStack releases to latest stable version.
• Automation and deployment using TripleO, OpenStack DevOps.

Responsibilities

• OpenStack/Linux administration for private clouds in production environments.
• Configure and manage tenants, networks, and heat templates.
• Automate deployments and updates using Ansible, Jenkins, and GitHub workflows.
• Perform sanity checks and troubleshooting of OpenStack components.
• Support production, development and test environments with Linux-based systems.

Skills

OpenStack

Linux Administration

OpenStack Neutron

OpenStack Nova

OpenStack Cinder

Ansible

Jenkins

Python

Shell scripting

VMware

Docker

Tools

Git

Jenkins

Ansible

Docker

Job description

Role & responsibilities

SUMMARY:

• Openstack/Linux administrator with years of experience in Openstack, cloud computing, Virtualization, Linux System Administration and Configuration Management.
• Experience in managing multiple private clouds for enterprises on Bare metal, Virtual Machines and Containers to address different project needs.
• Experience in Openstack components Neutron, qlNova, Cinder, Horizon, Ceilometer, Heat, Glance and Swift.
• Expertise in upgrading Openstack releases from previous to latest stable version.
• Experience in deploying Cloud both automatically using Triple-O, Openstack Ansible and manual deployment.
• Experience in verifying Openstack environment in Docker Containers for Sanity tests before upgrading production environment.
• Experience in DevOps process using Jenkins, Ansible for On Demand Openstack deployment.
• Experience in creating/managing multiple tenants in a cloud, creating quotas, triggering alarms when certain thresholds are reached, creating network and creating/customizing heat templates.
• Expertise in troubleshooting Openstack issues from fault detection, fault isolation and resolving key issues.
• Experience using Tempest and Rally for functionality and performance testing; trigged those test cases from Jenkins.

Knowledge on AWS architecture.

• Solid foundation on Python and shell scripting languages.
• Solid knowledge in object Python and C++ object oriented programming (OOP) concepts.
• Experienced in supporting large - scale multi-tenant infrastructure level services.
• Experience in supporting private cloud environments housing multiple tenants in multiple networks.
• Experience in managing cloud software deployments, with a focus on continuous integration and deployment using GitHub, Jenkins, and Maven.
• Administration of Production, Development and Test environment's carrying Windows, Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux and Centos
• Experience installing, configuring and managing Linux based systems and applications via automation and configuration management tools such as Chef , Salt and Ansible.
• Experience in implementation and maintenance on Apache Tomcat, MySQL and JBoss web service environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Cloud Computing: Openstack, VMWare, AWS, Containers(Docker)
• Operating Systems: UNIX, Redhat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows
• Databases: Oracle, MYSQL, MongoDB and PgSql
• Programming Languages: Shell scripting(BASH), Python, Go
• SCM Tools: GIT, ArgoCD
• CI Tools: Jenkins
• Monitoring & Automation Tools: Zabbix , Prometheus, Grafana, Kibana, Puppet, Terraform, Ansible
• Virtualization: VMWare ESXi, KVM
• Certification: RHEL , OSP , Cloud Admins