Staff Systems Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure

Define and implement reference architectures for private cloud (OpenStack) and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

Contribute towards architectural decisions for compute, storage, networking, and control plane services at scale.

Ensure platform consistency, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence across regions and data centers.

Evaluate and guide adoption of emerging cloud and IaaS technologies aligned with business and platform strategy.

Serve as a technical expert for OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, Heat, Octavia, etc.).

Monitor, maintain, and optimize OpenStack deployments for performance, availability, upgradeability, and lifecycle management .

Lead complex upgrades, migrations, and capacity expansions with minimal customer impact.

Define best practices for multi-tenant isolation, quota management, and SLA-driven design .

Design and integrate workloads across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP alongside private cloud platforms.

Establish patterns for hybrid networking, identity federation, workload portability .

Provide technical guidance on cloud-native and IaaS-based workload placement decisions.

Develop infrastructure-as-code and automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.

Promote platform standardization, self-service provisioning, and repeatable operational workflows.

Perform SRE and operations activities to improve observability, reliability, and incident response .

Perform root cause analysis for complex platform issues across compute, network, and storage layers.

Optimize cloud platforms for high-performance workloads , including AI/ML, batch, and HPC-style systems.

Monitor and improve key reliability, performance, and capacity metrics.

Act as a senior technical authority across cloud, infrastructure teams.

Mentor senior engineers; raise the technical bar across the organization.

Influence roadmap priorities through deep technical insight and clear communication with engineering and technical leaders.

Partner closely with security, networking, hardware, and application teams to deliver integrated solutions.

8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or large-scale platform engineering.

Deep, hands-on experience with OpenStack in production environments.

Proven experience designing and operating large-scale private and hybrid cloud platforms .

Demonstrated leadership on complex, cross-team infrastructure initiatives.

Strong knowledge of: OpenStack services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, etc.) Linux systems, virtualization (KVM), and container platforms (Kubernetes) Software-defined networking (SDN), L2/L3 networking, load balancing Distributed storage systems (Ceph, object/block storage)

OpenStack services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, etc.)

Linux systems, virtualization (KVM), and container platforms (Kubernetes)

Software-defined networking (SDN), L2/L3 networking, load balancing

Distributed storage systems (Ceph, object/block storage)

Experience with: Public cloud IaaS (AWS, Azure, GCP) Infrastructure automation and IaC CI/CD pipelines supporting platform engineering

Public cloud IaaS (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Infrastructure automation and IaC

CI/CD pipelines supporting platform engineering