Principal Private Cloud Engineer

Principal Private Cloud Engineer Overview

As a Principal Private Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for defining and leading the technical strategy for a private cloud platform built on OpenStack. This platform is essential for delivering scalable and reliable infrastructure services to engineering teams, supporting large-scale workloads and aligning with the organization’s infrastructure strategy. Your work will focus on modern platform engineering principles, emphasizing automation, APIs, and enhancing the developer experience.

Responsibilities

• Define and design the long-term architecture and strategy for a multi-tenant Private Cloud.
• Lead the integration of OpenStack across compute, networking, and storage systems.
• Develop standards for Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, APIs, and automation.
• Drive improvements in reliability, scalability, and performance across all platform components.
• Provide technical leadership in collaboration with various teams and domains.
• Guide platform engineering practices, including CI/CD, telemetry, and observability.
• Address complex challenges in distributed environments and high-performance computing.
• Promote and facilitate the seamless adoption of the new platform.
• Collaborate with Internal Developer Platform teams to ensure an excellent self-service experience.
• Identify and mitigate workflow friction across multi-disciplinary teams.
• Engage with the Open Source Software community to promote upstream feature adoption.

Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of the OpenStack ecosystem, Linux, and distributed systems.
• Strong background in software engineering, particularly with Python, APIs, and systems design.
• Significant experience with Ansible, Terraform, and infrastructure automation.
• Experience managing large-scale or multi-region systems and operating at significant scale.
• In-depth understanding of networking, storage, and Linux systems, both physical and software-defined.
• Proven ability to influence technical direction across teams.

Benefits

• Competitive salary ranging from £126,200 to £170,800 per year.
• A collaborative environment focused on impact, innovation, and teamwork.
• Support for accommodations during the recruitment process.
• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion within the workplace.

This position operates under a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility in where work is conducted. The specifics of this arrangement will be discussed during the application process.

Degree Requirement: Not Specified

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