Mirantis

Senior DevOps Engineer, OpenStack Team

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3 days ago
Remote, Ukraine or Kyiv, UkraineSenior

Responsibilities

  • Influence the MOSK product roadmap and backlog by evaluating feature feasibility, scalability, maturity, limitations, and operational risks.
  • Design, implement, and document lifecycle management for OpenStack on Kubernetes, including non-disruptive upgrades, patching, scaling, rollback, and compatibility.
  • Define validation scenarios, assess upstream OpenStack behavior, and integrate feature support into MOSK lifecycle management.
  • Review product designs, APIs, and implementations for robustness, security, and developer experience.
  • Lead technical design discussions, planning sessions, retrospectives, and knowledge-sharing activities.
  • Develop and maintain frameworks, libraries, internal tools, deployment automation, and CI/CD pipelines for MOSK.
  • Debug and resolve complex production issues involving Kubernetes, OpenStack, networking, storage, and distributed systems.
  • Investigate OpenStack service issues, identify code-level root causes, and contribute minor upstream fixes.
  • Analyze performance bottlenecks across hardware and software layers and recommend optimizations and tuning.
  • Manage development, staging, and validation environments that mirror customer deployments.
  • Provide authoritative technical input to documentation, field, enablement, engineering, and customer-facing teams.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of practical Linux administration experience using CentOS, Ubuntu, or RHEL as server platforms.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • Experience in software development, systems administration, or an SRE role.
  • Strong operating-system debugging and performance-tuning skills, including software and hardware troubleshooting.
  • Strong networking knowledge covering protocols, firewalls, VPNs, and networking equipment administration.
  • Experience with SaltStack, Puppet, Ansible, or Chef in medium and large environments.
  • Practical Terraform experience.
  • Production expertise with Docker and Kubernetes, including Kubernetes operators and Helm.
  • Strong Jenkins experience and ability to build dependable build and release pipelines.
  • Understanding of cloud environments such as OpenStack, AWS, GCP, or Azure.
  • Strong scripting skills in Bash, Groovy, or Python, with at least one required.
  • Mid-level Go or C experience is valuable.
  • Preferred: deep OpenStack architecture and production-operation experience.
  • Preferred: knowledge of SDN solutions including Open Virtual Network and Open vSwitch.
  • Preferred: experience with OpenSearch, Grafana, and Prometheus stacks.
  • Preferred: open-source contribution experience.
  • Intermediate spoken and written English proficiency, customer-facing communication skills, diplomacy, and problem-solving ability.

Benefits

  • Remote role in a global, collaborative, remote-first culture.
  • Opportunity to shape cloud and AI modernization and work with enterprise customers.
  • Work with open-source technologies and attend conferences and working groups.
  • Customized workstation with macOS or Windows.
  • Professional development and training.
  • Competitive compensation, performance incentives, and advancement opportunities.

Tech Stack

AnsibleAWSAzureBashCChefDockerGoGoogle Cloud PlatformGrafanaGroovyHelmJenkinsKubernetesLinuxOpenStackPrometheusPuppetPythonTerraform

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About Mirantis

501-1,000 employees

Mirantis builds Kubernetes-native infrastructure software and services for enterprises to run cloud, container, and AI workloads across on-premises, public cloud, and edge environments. It sells subscriptions, support, and managed services around products like Mirantis Kubernetes Engine and the Lens Kubernetes platform; the company acquired Docker Enterprise in 2019. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Campbell, California, Mirantis is privately held and an IREN company serving global enterprises.

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