[Hiring] Openstack Infrastructure Engineer @xneelo

Role Description

We’re looking for a talented Openstack Infrastructure Engineer to help us build, manage and scale our 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.

If you love all things Internet, IPv4 & 6, hypervisors, scaling compute and storage, IaC and open source in general, you could find a meaningful opportunity at xneelo. If you are after autonomy, mastery and purpose, come and chat with us. If you find a powerful sense of achievement in putting your skill and personal strengths into action to deliver customer value through world class compute and storage hosting platforms, then we really want to chat to you.

Location: South Africa

Qualifications

• Experience operating open-source infrastructure systems.
• OpenStack implementation, operations or troubleshooting experience.
• Experience with Ceph or similar distributed storage systems.
• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Practical knowledge of data-centre-grade hardware.
• Understanding of how hardware design affects platform reliability and performance.
• Strong networking fundamentals.
• Ability to troubleshoot across compute, storage, and networking.
• Experience with virtualisation and cloud infrastructure at scale.
• Security-minded approach to architecture and operational workflows.
• SRE mindset focused on reducing failure probability and operational risk.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and automation practices.
• Preference for repeatable, version-controlled automation.
• Discipline when planning and executing upgrades and migrations.
• Strong end-to-end ownership of infrastructure.
• Ability to reason about capacity and performance.
• Ability to use AI-assisted tools productively.
• Clear technical documentation skills.
• Ability to contribute constructively to technical reviews.
• Ability to work effectively in a distributed team.
• Willingness to participate in an on-call rotation.
• Understanding the difference between “done” and “97% done”.

Requirements

• Experience with Ubuntu Linux, Ansible, Openstack, Ceph, Terraform, Rundeck, LXC, Nspawn, OVN, OVS, BGP, JunOS, LACP, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Git, Jira and more.
• Ability to innovate and solve complex IT infrastructure problems.
• Strong team player.

Benefits

• Salary will be negotiable, commensurate with your skills and track record.
• High level of discretion and autonomy guided by our principles and values.