OpenStack Infrastructure Engineer

Network Recruitment; Wes-Kaap; Vor Ort; ZAR 700.000 - 1.100.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Network Recruitment is seeking an OpenStack Infrastructure Engineer in South Africa to design, build, and manage OpenStack-based infrastructure. You will work on large-scale compute and storage environments, ensuring performance, stability, and security while coordinating with a distributed team.

The ideal candidate has strong Linux administration, hands-on experience with OpenStack, Ceph, and IaC tools, and is comfortable with automation and on-call rotations.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in IT, CS, or related field.
• Experience with open-source infra and cloud environments.
• Experience with OpenStack deployment, administration or troubleshooting.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.

Aufgaben

• Design, build, and manage OpenStack-based infrastructure at scale.
• Scale compute and storage while ensuring performance and security.
• Collaborate with distributed teams and participate in on-call rotations.
• Automate deployment and operations with IaC tooling.

Kenntnisse

OpenStack

Ceph

Linux Administration

Terraform

Ansible

Networking fundamentals

Ausbildung

Bachelor's Degree in IT/CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

OVN/OVS

Prometheus/Grafana

Jobbeschreibung

Our client is looking for an OpenStack Infrastructure Engineer to join their team. This is an exciting opportunity for an infrastructure-focused engineer with a passion for cloud platforms, Linux, automation, networking, and large-scale compute and storage environments.

The successful candidate will be responsible for designing, building, managing, and scaling OpenStack-based infrastructure while ensuring high levels of performance, stability, security, and reliability across mission-critical hosting platforms.

Requirements:

• Relevant Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field.
• Experience operating open-source infrastructure platforms and cloud environments.
• Experience with OpenStack implementation, administration, operations, or troubleshooting.
• Experience with Ceph or similar distributed storage systems.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with virtualization and cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Understanding of enterprise-grade server hardware, storage systems, networking equipment, and data centre environments.
• Strong networking fundamentals, including IPv4, IPv6, switching, routing, and cloud networking concepts.
• Exposure to OVN, Open vSwitch (OVS), BGP, LACP, Juniper networking technologies, or similar technologies would be advantageous.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, and automation practices.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation tools.
• Experience troubleshooting across compute, storage, networking, hypervisors, databases, containers, and operating systems.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure security, access control, and operational best practices.
• Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and operational resilience.
• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent documentation and technical communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively within a distributed team environment.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation and support occasional after-hours maintenance and incident response activities.
• Strong sense of ownership and commitment to delivering reliable solutions.

Technologies & Tools:

Experience with several of the following technologies will be highly advantageous:

• OpenStack
• Ceph
• Ubuntu Linux
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Docker
• LXC
• Nspawn
• OVN
• Open vSwitch (OVS)
• BGP
• JunOS
• LACP
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Git
• Jira
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Cloud Infrastructure & Virtualization

Key Competencies:

• Infrastructure Design & Architecture
• Cloud Engineering
• Linux Administration
• Distributed Storage
• Network Engineering
• Automation & Scripting
• Platform Reliability
• Capacity Planning
• Performance Optimization
• Incident Management
• Technical Documentation
• Continuous Improvement
• Team Collaboration

Application Note:

If you have not received feedback within two weeks after the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful. Your profile will remain in our database for consideration for future opportunities.

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