Sr. Cloud Operations Engineer

Job Description

Senior Cloud Operations Engineer – OpenStack Remote (U.S. Only)

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Job Description:

We’re hiring a Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to join our client’s team, an innovative cloud communications platform empowering Managed Service Providers (MSPs). In this role, you’ll take ownership of our hybrid cloud infrastructure, helping us scale and optimize our multi-data-center OpenStack environment. This is a remote position (U.S. only), with occasional on-site travel to support deployments and hardware integration.

Key Responsibilities:

Scale and optimize OpenStack clusters across nine private data centers

Own the full lifecycle of hardware procurement, rack install, and integration

Work directly with colocation providers on power/cooling and capacity planning

Build infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and MaaS

Develop observability pipelines using Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry

Collaborate with infrastructure and reliability teams to build next-gen architecture

What You’ll Bring:

Strong experience with OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone) and Ceph

Proficiency with Terraform, Pulumi, OpenTofu, or similar IaC tools

Deep Linux experience, including bare-metal performance tuning

Familiarity with networking (VLANs, routing, SD-WAN, Direct Connect)

Experience managing hardware procurement and colocation SLAs

Bonus: Kubernetes, OpenShift, APM, or DCIM tools

Must be a U.S. Citizen.Company Description

Talent Groups-Progilisys Solutions specializes in assessing systems, architectures and application management requirements for highly diversified computing environments, both designing and deploying solutions to meet our customer’s strategic business requirements. As an independent solution provider, we address the relationships between technology, people and process, and in turn recommend the optimum combination of each to help meet our customer’s business and technology objectives.

Fully remote