Job Description

Remote or Vancouver, Canada or Cape Town, South Africa.
 
Job description
Help build, manage and scale Openstack compute and storage infrastructure.
Experience in building Openstack infrastructure from the ground up will be a distinct advantage, but is not an absolute requirement.
 
Requirements
IPv4 & 6
Hypervisors
Scaling compute and storage
IaC and open source in general
Deliver customer value through world class compute and storage hosting platforms

The strengths and experience we’re looking for in potential team mates:
Experience (extensive for the senior role) in open source based infrastructure systems management.
Openstack implementation and management experience is a distinct advantage.
Strong networking skills, with Juniper being an advantage.
Able to communicate clearly and concisely, particularly should things not go quite according to the system availability plan.
Skilled at proactively and hugely reducing the likelihood of the aforementioned plan situation
Think SRE and avoiding data loss no matter what.
Adept at systems thinking, modern IT infrastructure approaches (eg. Infrastructure as code) and applying devops practices to infrastructure management.
Experience in virtualization and other cloud technologies at scale will be an advantage.
 
Current tech stack and tooling includes
Ubuntu Linux,
Ansible,
Openstack,
Ceph,
Terraform,
Rundeck,
LXC,
Nspawn,
Keycloak,
Prometheus,
Grafana,
Elastic,
Gitlab,
Jira and more.
Experience with a reasonable number of these or similar will be important.
Ability to use these and similar tools to innovate, solve complex IT infrastructure problems and to do this as a strong team player is very important

Skills Required