OpenStack Cloud Engineer — Automation & Scale

JVR Software

Centurion

On-site

ZAR 800,000 - 1,200,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

JVR Software is seeking a skilled Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to design, implement, and operate OpenStack-based platforms in Centurion. You will optimize Ceph storage, automate deployments with IaC, and ensure high availability and security across compute, storage, and networking layers.

The ideal candidate has strong Linux system administration skills, hands-on OpenStack and Ceph experience, and a pragmatic, ownership-driven approach to reliability and scalability.

Qualifications

Proven experience operating OpenStack environments.
Hands-on OpenStack administration, implementation, troubleshooting, or operations.
Experience with Ceph or similar distributed storage.
Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting expertise.
Understanding of virtualization and cloud infra technologies at scale.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, maintain, and scale OpenStack-based cloud infrastructure.
Manage and optimize Ceph and storage platforms.
Automate deployment and operations using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
Monitor and improve platform availability, performance, security, and scalability.
Troubleshoot across compute, storage, virtualization, networking, and cloud services.

Skills

OpenStack admin

Ceph

Linux admin

Networking (OVN/OVS/BGP)

Terraform

Ansible

Rundeck

Docker

LXC/Nspawn

SRE mindset

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Rundeck

Docker

LXC

Nspawn

JunOS

Grafana

Git

Jira

Job description

The ideal candidate has strong Linux system administration skills, hands-on OpenStack and Ceph experience, and a pragmatic, ownership-driven approach to reliability and scalability.

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