Infrastructure Ops Engineer - OpenStack & Kubernetes (GPU)

NexGen Cloud Ltd.; Portugal; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Annual discretionary bonus

25 days of holiday

Flexible remote or hybrid work

Ownership and autonomy

Career progression opportunities

Collaborative, international culture

Job summary

NexGen Cloud seeks an Infrastructure Operations Engineer to own OpenStack and Kubernetes environments, deploying and operating platform infrastructure for GPU workloads. You will push for reliability, security, and performance improvements across globally distributed environments.

The role emphasizes not just maintenance but end-to-end ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and a willingness to travel to ensure optimal infrastructure and customer experience.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on Linux systems administration skills.
• Experience building servers, racks, and commissioning hardware on-site.
• Hands-on data centre experience, including hardware installation and maintenance.
• Willingness and ability to travel to Quebec sites as required.
• Solid understanding of networking and storage systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, deployment, and operation of OpenStack and Kubernetes environments for GPU workloads.
• Build and improve infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code and GitOps practices.
• Optimize GPU workload scheduling and implement monitoring, logging, and alerting for platform stability.
• Lead incident response and drive reliability improvements across the platform.
• Maintain security controls across infrastructure and container layers (RBAC, network policies, tenant isolation).
• Collaborate with Platform, DevOps, AI, Product, and Support teams to align infrastructure with customer and platform requirements.

Skills

Linux systems administration

Hardware installation & maintenance

Data center operations

Networking basics

Willingness to travel (Quebec sites)

Tools

OpenStack

Kubernetes

Job description

NexGen Cloud seeks an Infrastructure Operations Engineer to own OpenStack and Kubernetes environments, deploying and operating platform infrastructure for GPU workloads. You will push for reliability, security, and performance improvements across globally distributed environments.

The role emphasizes not just maintenance but end-to-end ownership, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and a willingness to travel to ensure optimal infrastructure and customer experience.