Sr. Cloud Operations Engineer

ZipRecruiter; McKinney (TX); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to take charge of their hybrid cloud infrastructure. This remote position focuses on scaling and optimizing OpenStack clusters within a multi-data-center environment. Candidates should be well-versed in OpenStack, Terraform, and possess deep Linux expertise to enhance the overall reliability and efficiency of cloud operations.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone) and Ceph.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Pulumi, or similar IaC tools.
• Deep Linux experience including performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Scale and optimize OpenStack clusters across nine private data centers.
• Own the lifecycle of hardware procurement, installation, and integration.
• Collaborate on infrastructure automation and next-gen architecture.

Skills

OpenStack

Terraform

Linux

Networking

Tools

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Kubernetes

Job description

Job Description

Senior Cloud Operations Engineer – OpenStack | Remote (U.S. Only)

Contract to Hire | No C2C.

Job Description:

We’re hiring a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to join our client’s team, an innovative cloud communications platform empowering Managed Service Providers (MSPs). In this role, you’ll take ownership of our hybrid cloud infrastructure, helping us scale and optimize our multi-data-center OpenStack environment. This is a remote position (U.S. only), with occasional on-site travel to support deployments and hardware integration.

Key Responsibilities:

• Scale and optimize OpenStack clusters across nine private data centers
• Own the full lifecycle of hardware procurement, rack installation, and integration
• Work directly with colocation providers on power, cooling, and capacity planning
• Build infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and MaaS
• Develop observability pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry
• Collaborate with infrastructure and reliability teams to build next-generation architecture

What You’ll Bring:

• Strong experience with OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone) and Ceph
• Proficiency with Terraform, Pulumi, OpenTofu, or similar IaC tools
• Deep Linux experience, including bare-metal performance tuning
• Familiarity with networking (VLANs, routing, SD-WAN, Direct Connect)
• Experience managing hardware procurement and colocation SLAs
• Bonus: Kubernetes, OpenShift, APM, or DCIM tools

Must be U.S.

Company Description: Talent Groups - Progilisys Solutions specializes in assessing systems, architectures, and application management requirements for highly diversified computing environments. We design and deploy solutions to meet our customer’s strategic business requirements. As an independent solution provider, we address the relationships between technology, people, and process, recommending the optimum combination to meet business and technology objectives.