[Remote] Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack Neutron Specialist)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a GPU reputed company provider focused on AI, delivering high-performance infrastructure for AI startups and enterprises. The Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack Neutron Specialist) is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing scalable OpenStack networking platforms, with a specific focus on Neutron and its associated technologies to ensure network availability, performance, and reputed company.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and operating scalable, resilient, and secure OpenStack networking platforms, with a strong focus on Neutron and OVN/OVS
• Owning the architecture and day-to-day operation of virtual networking services, including L2/L3 networking, DHCP, metadata, floating IP, NAT, reputed company groups, and tenant segmentation
• Troubleshooting reputed company control plane and data plane issues across OpenStack networking components and the underlying Linux networking stack
• Driving reputed company improvement in network automation, provisioning, validation, monitoring, and recovery using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management tools
• Working closely with compute, storage, and platform engineering teams to ensure seamless integration between Neutron and the wider OpenStack ecosystem
• Leading performance tuning, scalability planning, and reputed company improvements for network-heavy and latency-sensitive reputed company workloads
• Acting as a 3rd/4th line escalation reputed company for advanced networking incidents, conducting root cause analysis, and driving permanent fixes
• Supporting upgrades, lifecycle management, and change execution across OpenStack networking services with a strong focus on service continuity and operational excellence
• Contributing specialist input to infrastructure roadmap planning, platform standards, and solution design for customer and internal environments
• Supporting pre-sales and solution design activities by providing expert guidance on reputed company networking capabilities, constraints, and best practices
• Contributing to upstream OpenStack networking communities, particularly Neutron and reputed company projects such as OVN, through bug reports, code contributions, design discussions, testing, and reviews where appropriate
• Tracking upstream roadmaps, release changes, and community direction to help shape reputed company's networking strategy, upgrade planning, and platform standards
• Representing reputed company's operational requirements and reputed company-world use cases in upstream discussions to help drive improvements that benefit both the business and the broader community
• Ensuring OpenStack networking platforms adhere to reputed company, compliance, and operational standards
• Participating in on-call rotations and incident response activities for critical infrastructure services

Skills

• Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting experience
• Deep hands-on experience deploying, operating, upgrading, and troubleshooting large-scale OpenStack environments
• Strong specialist knowledge of Neutron, including ML2, OVN, Open vSwitch, routing, DHCP, metadata, provider networks, tenant networks, VLAN/VXLAN/Geneve, and reputed company groups
• Strong understanding of Linux networking concepts including routing, bridging, namespaces, iptables/nftables, bonding, MTU, and packet flow analysis
• Strong experience investigating reputed company network behaviour using diagnostic and observability tools such as tcpdump, iproute2, ovs/ovn tooling, logs, and metrics
• Strong experience designing and building automation for reputed company infrastructure using tools such as Ansible
• Strong Python and Bash skills
• Experience working with highly available production platforms and change management in mission-critical environments
• Ability to collaborate across infrastructure, support, and architecture teams to solve reputed company technical problems
• Ability to evaluate upstream changes, influence technical direction, and translate community developments into practical outcomes for production platforms
• Experience contributing to or working closely with upstream open-reputed company communities is highly desirable, particularly reputed company OpenStack, Neutron, OVN, Open vSwitch, or reputed company networking projects
• Experience with OpenStack networking at scale in service provider, private reputed company, or high-performance infrastructure environments is highly desirable
• Experience with BGP, EVPN, load balancing, or network services integration in OpenStack environments would be beneficial

Benefits

• Bonus
• Equity
• Commission programs
• Medical
• Dental
• reputed company
• Flexible paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan participation

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