OpenStack Cloud Engineer | Remote + Growth Path

Software Mind; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible employment

Remote work

International projects

Private healthcare

Language classes

Training

Job summary

Software Mind invites you to join an internal OpenStack team that builds and operates private cloud platforms for enterprise clients in Western Europe. You’ll work hands-on on production platforms, mentored by senior engineers, with a clear path to senior level.

You’ll install OpenStack components, configure networks and storage, deploy monitoring, and help automate with Ansible and CI pipelines. This role suits experienced Linux administrators with OpenStack exposure and strong teamwork.

Qualifications

• At least 3 years administering Linux in production, including OpenStack.
• Day to day operation of core OpenStack services: Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Glance, Cinder, Placement and Horizon.
• Ability to diagnose failed instance, volume and network operations using the OpenStack CLI and service logs.
• Understanding of API, scheduler and agent components, message queue and the state database.
• Experience with an OpenStack deployment framework, preferably Kolla-Ansible, and with containers.
• KVM and libvirt for compute troubleshooting; practical Ansible and Git skills.
• Networking fundamentals: VLANs, routing, NAT, overlays; tenant vs provider networks.
• English at B2 level for technical documentation and client communication.

Responsibilities

• Install and configure OpenStack components with Kolla-Ansible per design.
• Prepare infrastructure nodes: OS, KVM virtualization, container runtime, networks, storage.
• Configure networking and storage: OVN, VLAN, Cinder, boot from volume.
• Deploy monitoring: Prometheus, Alertmanager, Grafana, Fluentd, OpenSearch.
• Handle second-line incidents and service requests per SLAs.
• Execute planned changes: patching, node replacement, VM evacuation, upgrades.
• Maintain configuration repos with merge requests and promote changes.
• Automate repeatable work with Ansible and CI pipelines; participate in on-call.

Skills

Linux admin

OpenStack knowledge

Networking basics

OpenStack CLI

English B2

Education

Certified OpenStack Administrator

Linux certification

Tools

Kolla-Ansible

OpenStack-Ansible

TripleO

OVN/Open vSwitch

Proxmox VE

VMware vSphere

Terraform

Kubernetes

Python

Ansible

Git

Job description

Software Mind invites you to join an internal OpenStack team that builds and operates private cloud platforms for enterprise clients in Western Europe. You’ll work hands-on on production platforms, mentored by senior engineers, with a clear path to senior level.

You’ll install OpenStack components, configure networks and storage, deploy monitoring, and help automate with Ansible and CI pipelines. This role suits experienced Linux administrators with OpenStack exposure and strong teamwork.