Senior OpenStack Infrastructure Engineer (IaC & Storage)

Xneelo; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

xneelo, a hosting provider in South Africa, seeks an Openstack Infrastructure Engineer to build, manage and scale OpenStack compute and storage infrastructure. The role emphasizes reliability, automation and collaboration across a distributed team.

You will work with Ubuntu Linux, Ansible, Ceph, Terraform and related tooling, contributing to incident response, capacity planning and platform improvements while delivering value to customers through robust hosting platforms.

Qualifications

• Experience operating open-source infrastructure systems at senior level.
• OpenStack implementation, operations or troubleshooting experience.
• Experience with Ceph or similar distributed storage systems.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Practical knowledge of data-centre hardware, including servers, storage media and networking gear.
• Understanding of hardware, power, cooling and rack layouts on reliability.
• Strong networking fundamentals, IPv4/IPv6, BGP, OVS/OVN would be advantageous.
• Ability to troubleshoot across compute, storage, networking, databases, containers and guest workloads.
• Experience with infrastructure as code and automation practices.
• Willingness to participate in on-call rotation.

Skills

OpenStack

Ceph storage

Linux admin

Networking basics

IaC tooling

Terraform

Ansible

SRE mindset

Automation

Tools

OpenStack

Ceph

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

xneelo, a hosting provider in South Africa, seeks an Openstack Infrastructure Engineer to build, manage and scale OpenStack compute and storage infrastructure. The role emphasizes reliability, automation and collaboration across a distributed team.

You will work with Ubuntu Linux, Ansible, Ceph, Terraform and related tooling, contributing to incident response, capacity planning and platform improvements while delivering value to customers through robust hosting platforms.