Job Description

Sr. Cloud Operations Engineer

McKinney, TX 75070

100% Onsite – 5 Days | Permanent Role

Note: No Sponsorship Available

Job Summary:

Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of enterprise-scale OpenStack infrastructure, ensuring reliability, security, and cost-efficiency across hybrid cloud and colocation environments. Your expertise will bridge physical hardware procurement, OpenStack deployment, and data center operations to support our virtualization ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Design and Deployment
• Deliver resilient OpenStack environments with 99.999% uptime, optimized for hybrid cloud workloads.
• Architect and manage OpenStack clusters across multiple geo-distributed data center environments
• Identify, qualify, procure, and manage physical hardware (compute, storage, networking) aligned with OpenStack and Ceph storage requirements.
• Data Center Operations and Capacity Planning
• Collaborate with colocation vendors to ensure power/cooling capacity meets workload demands, using DCIM tools for rack-level planning (power, BTU/hr, U space)
• Conduct quarterly capacity audits to identify resource gaps, depletion risks, and upgrade timelines
• Networking and Security Governance
• Configure routing, SD-WAN integrations, and AWS Direct Connect/VPC peering/mesh networking for hybrid cloud connectivity
• Implement security standards via OpenStack and Linux capabilities (Keystone, Neutron, encrypted Ceph storage, etc).
• Perform regular security audits and remediate security findings
• Automation and Observability
• Develop Ansible playbooks/Terraform modules/MaaS configurations for OpenStack component provisioning
• Build predictive analytics pipelines using metrics, logs, and traces
• Design self-healing workflows for compute and storage failures

Competencies:

• Proficiency in KVM/QEMU, Ceph, and OpenStack services (Nova, Neutron, Keystone)
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code and configuration management tools (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Ansible, Salt).
• Proficiency in Linux Performance Analysis (eBPF).
• Advanced, at-scale automation of bare-metal provisioning
• Hands-on experience with DCIM tools
• Hands-on experience with modern observability stacks (APM, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki).
• Experience in evaluating, qualifying, and managing networking hardware and capacity planning.
• Expertise designing and managing network infrastructure across multiple data centers and public cloud environments.
• Familiarity with configuring and troubleshooting network hardware and software, as well as analyzing packet captures.
• In-depth understanding of networking layers, protocols, services, and security practices.
• Proven track record negotiating hardware procurement and colocation SLAs
• Expertise with container management (Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, Helm)
• Experience with VCS systems and providers (Git, Mercurial, GitHub, Sourcehut)
• Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Circle CI, Argo)
• Experience with ticket management systems (Jira, Shortcut, Azure DevOps)

If you possess these qualifications and are excited about the prospect of contributing to dynamic team, we encourage you to apply.

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