Senior Cloud Engineer, OpenStack

Role Overview

• Provide hands-on technical leadership across OpenStack-based cloud platforms, acting as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Support the development of engineering standards, patterns, and reusable designs, while mentoring other engineers within the team.
• Ensure solutions are designed to meet both customer and business requirements in multi-tenant environments.
• Design, implement, and manage Brightsolid’s OpenStack cloud platform, including compute, storage, and networking components.
• Work across the full lifecycle of the platform, including build, deployment, optimisation, and scaling of services.
• Ensure the platform remains highly available, resilient, and capable of supporting diverse workloads.
• Design and support large-scale storage platforms underpinning the cloud environment, including high-performance and enterprise storage solutions.
• Contribute to the architecture and operation of block, object, and distributed storage services, ensuring performance, durability, and scalability requirements are met.
• Drive the adoption of infrastructure-as-code and automation practices across the cloud platform.
• Develop and maintain deployment tooling, orchestration templates, and automation pipelines to ensure consistent and repeatable platform delivery.
• Support a continuous delivery approach for infrastructure services.
• Support the ongoing operation of the Brightsolid cloud platform, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex issues.
• Ensure platform compliance, patching, and lifecycle management activities are performed in line with operational standards.
• Contribute to a high-availability, 24x7 service environment.
• Contribute to the evolution of Brightsolid’s cloud platform, working closely with Cloud Engineering leadership and Product Management to enhance capabilities and introduce new technologies.
• Support the ongoing transition to open-source platforms and ensure alignment with long-term strategic goals.
• Work closely with Network Engineering, Security Operations, Product Management, and Customer Success teams to deliver integrated cloud services.
• Engage with external partners including Canonical to support platform development, deployment, and optimisation.

Requirements

• Strong experience in a senior cloud engineering or infrastructure engineering role.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms or distributed systems.
• Proven expertise in Linux-based systems and infrastructure. Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code and automation principles.
• Experience working in a managed service or service provider environment delivering high availability solutions.
• Experience with OpenStack and associated technologies including compute, networking, and orchestration services.
• Experience with distributed storage platforms and data services.
• Familiarity with Canonical tooling and cloud deployment models.
• Experience with automation frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent tooling. Experience supporting multi-tenant environments and large-scale infrastructure platforms.
• Strong technical leadership with the ability to influence design and engineering decisions.
• Collaborative approach with the ability to work across multiple technical domains.
• Customer-focused mindset with a strong emphasis on service quality and reliability.
• Ability to operate both strategically and at a detailed technical level.
• Continuous improvement mindset aligned to modern engineering practices.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• Linux
• OpenStack
• Terraform