Lead Openstack Engineer

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The Lead Openstack Engineer position is an individual contributor role. He/she will work as an interface between Developers, Engineers, and Support staff. He/she will be passionate about architecting, designing and building Customer experiences with Openstack technology.

Duties and Responsibilities

Below you will find a list of some of the key duties and responsibilities:

Design and manage Openstack cloud maintenance lifecycle

Expand ansible playbooks around Openstack to allow for a seamless, zero-downtime upgrade of Openstack to newer versions

Develop and test the upgrade playbooks in a virtual environment, write functional test and develop a rollout plan

Use DevOps/Agile as the core philosophy for software development/delivery versus doing development with DevOps/Agile as an add-on/afterthought

Agile software delivery process using JIRA (including breaking down work into modular tasks, updating/tracking task status/work log entries for sprint management), Git (source code management including branching strategy, code review), Jenkins (automated builds, automated unit test cases) and Ansible (auto deployment using zero downtime application deployment techniques).

Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs

Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal customers to analyze information needs and functional requirements and deliver the following artifacts as needed: Functional/Business Requirements, High Level Architecture, System Requirements, Design Documents, Wireframe, etc

Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously

Serves as the conduit between the business/customer community and the software development team through which requirements flow

Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates

Skills and Experience

Below is a list of the experience, skills and qualifications that will be required for you to be successful in this role.

Essential:

Technology

BS or MS in Computer Science or related degree

8+ years leading, designing, architecting, deploying, and/or on-boarding private/hybrid/public cloud solutions leveraging Openstack

Proven Enterprise experience maintaining and upgrading Openstack

Experience with Ceph and Swift Storage

Excellent network configuration skills, knowledge of Cumulus Linux and iBGP, VXLAN and EVPN

Real-life experience with Docker and industry standard automation toolkits

Experience writing requirements/specifications, configuring, deploying and testing OpenStack

Experience developing or operating enterprise applications at scale

Broad set of technical skills and knowledge across hardware, software, systems and solutions development and a across more than one technical domain

Industry experience creating (on your own or with a team) a product or IT solution in the area of middleware technologies (application server, web server, distributed cache, message queuing, BI, API management, service registry)

Demonstrated ability to quickly perform proof-of-concepts for validating new technology or approach

Strong experience with the ITIL framework, particularly Incident, Change, and Problem Management

Familiarity with Enterprise cloud Quality Assurance processes and toolsets

Interpersonal

Prior experience working in an offshore delivery model with either and Australian technology provider or Australian Enterprise technology business unit

Ability to mentor and guide junior engineers in delivery of required outcomes

Exceptional oral and written communication skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the proven ability to manage multi-stakeholder engagement across a diverse group (executives, managers, architects, operations and subject matter experts)

OpenStack Linux Swift ITIL Project Management

Project ID: #29437815

About the project

11 proposals Remote project Active 2 years ago

11 freelancers are bidding on average $55/hour for this job

vasilatos80

Hi, there I am a Senior cloud engineer with OpenStack, Openshift and Kubernetes experiences. For more than 5 years, I have been working on Cloud project and their services of the private cloud datacenter using Opensta More

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errandssolution

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vijaycsqapmp

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Vishal560

I, Vishal Hanumante, am a self-motivated Project/Program Manager, with 20+ years of total IT experience, including 10+ years in leadership role. I come with 20+ years of IT industry experience. I have been in leadershi More

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trandung410

I am currently running openstack with ceph at the company. My company currently also implements infrastructure with cumulus (BGP) + openstack + ceph. I am currently a lead in the team and can manage project deadlines w More

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linustribe

Senior Cloud professional with proven ability to create and deliver solution tied to business growth, organization development. Technically sophisticated professional with 12+ years of experience in IT Infrastructure, More

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superzero410

I'm 1 cloud system engineer with 7 years of experience. I did it through environments like linux, cloud, hosting, services I have done many projects on openstack and ceph. Hope I can help you in this project Thanks

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