SC cleared Red Hat OpenStack Engineer

This role focuses on designing, deploying, troubleshooting a secure grade private environment using Red Hat’s supported distribution of the OpenStack open-source cloud operating system: Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP). It will be deployed between two sites, in a resilient design. The RHOSP engineer will support an existing engineering team with the higher-level components of the overall design. Contributing to meetings, discussion and High Level design.

Key Responsibilities

• Architecture & Design: Leading the design and planning of highly available, scalable OpenStack cloud solutions
• Deployment & Configuration: Installing and configuring the core OpenStack services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, etc.) often using Red Hat OpenStack Director (the installer/manager).
• Automation: Automating cloud provisioning, configuration, and orchestration using tools like Ansible, Python, or Bash scripting.
• Integration: Integrating OpenStack with other critical services, especially Red Hat Ceph Storage for persistent storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the underlying operating system.
• Delivery: Performing advanced troubleshooting, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and performance tuning of the OpenStack environment.
• Container Integration: Increasingly, this role involves enabling container platforms like Red Hat OpenShift to run on top of the OpenStack virtual machines (VMs).

Essential commercial experience

• Expert-level Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration, including networking, security, storage, and performance tuning.
• Deep knowledge of core services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, Swift
• Experience of Ansible for configuration management and orchestration, and scripting with Python or Go.
• Expertise in KVM (the hypervisor used by OpenStack) and related concepts.
• Hands-on experience with Red Hat Ceph Storage for OpenStack integration.
• Advanced networking skills (TCP/IP, VLANs, VXLANs, routing) and OpenStack Neutron configuration.
• Experience of RED HAT and WINDOWs integration. Including active directory

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements