Key skills
OpenStackLinuxNetworkingAutomation toolsInfrastructure-as-codeSecurity best practicesPythonGoBashCommunication skillsLeadership skillsSelf-starterTerraformKubernetesLeadershipCommunication
About this role
Kraken is a mission-focused company rooted in crypto values, seeking to accelerate the global adoption of crypto. The role involves leading the design and deployment of Kraken's OpenStack-based compute platform while ensuring reliable and scalable infrastructure for all workloads.
Responsibilities:
- Help design and architect Kraken’s OpenStack-based compute platform
- Lead the deployment, configuration, and scaling of OpenStack across multiple datacenters
- Manage, optimize, and maintain Kraken’s OpenStack environments and lifecycle workflows
- Build and evolve bare-metal and Virtual Machines provisioning using OpenStack components
- Help integrate our Kubernetes platform with OpenStack to provide a unified compute foundation
- Partner with networking, security, engineering, platform and SRE teams to define long-term datacenter strategy
- Mentor engineers and contribute to roadmaps for private-cloud and datacenter evolution
- Participate in an on-call rotation to ensure the reliability of the core infrastructure platform
Requirements:
- 7+ years of hands-on OpenStack experience (deployment, configuration, troubleshooting), at scale
- Expert-level proficiency of OpenStack architecture, reliability, optimization, and operations
- Proficient with Openstack's Nova, Ironic, Neutron for host provisioning, networking and virtual machines management at scale in on-premises datacenters
- Strong background in Linux, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems
- Experience with automation tools (Salt, Terraform) and infrastructure-as-code practices
- Strong security mindset with experience enforcing best practices in complex environments
- Proficiency in two or more languages: Python, Go, Bash
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with ability to influence technical direction
- Comfortable working independently in a highly distributed, remote-first team
- Self-starter able to navigate multiple projects, domains, and problems
- Experience building and maintaining Kubernetes clusters running on top of Openstack
- Experience orchestrating multiple regional datacenters at scale