Senior Infrastructure Architect – Private Cloud & Kubernetes

Ziply Fiber; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Ziply Fiber is seeking a Principal Architect for Infrastructure to set standards across our compute, virtualization, and data center stack. You will lead the VMware-to-OpenStack migration, define containerization and orchestration strategy, and design cross-site, scalable environments built for reliability.

You will guide engineering teams in architecture, automation, and operations to deliver scalable, automated infrastructure with operational independence and robust DR capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, CS, IT, or related field or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years of infrastructure engineering with virtualization and data center operations.
• Senior independent contributor with standards setting and cross-functional influence.
• Expert OpenStack knowledge: Nova/Neutron/Cinder/Glance/Keystone in production.
• Strong PostgreSQL HA, replication, performance tuning in production environments.
• Proven VMware to OpenStack migration experience with zero-impact cutover.

Responsibilities

• Own the hypervisor and private cloud strategy including VMware migration.
• Define Proxmox deployment architecture for lightweight virtualization.
• Architect bare metal infrastructure and lifecycle management.
• Lead VMware to OpenStack migration program with planning and execution.

Skills

Virtualization

OpenStack

VMware migration

Kubernetes

Proxmox

CI/CD

Terraform

Ansible

PostgreSQL HA

Ironic

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Tools

Ceph

MAAS

Proxmox VE

Job description

Ziply Fiber is seeking a Principal Architect for Infrastructure to set standards across our compute, virtualization, and data center stack. You will lead the VMware-to-OpenStack migration, define containerization and orchestration strategy, and design cross-site, scalable environments built for reliability.

You will guide engineering teams in architecture, automation, and operations to deliver scalable, automated infrastructure with operational independence and robust DR capabilities.