Openstack Administrator

Openstack Admin

Exp- 4+ years

Location - Mumbai (Vile Parle / Andheri East)

Interview Process- First Round Virtual

Final Round face to face

Role Summary

• We are looking for an experienced OpenStack Administrators to deploy, manage, and maintain private cloud infrastructure. You will own the OpenStack environment end to end from initial deployment and configuration of core services through day-to-day operations, upgrades, capacity planning, and troubleshooting. The candidate will also own the underlying hypervisor architecture like VMWARE and requires knowledge of VMWARE architecture and Linux systems administration fundamentals.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan and deploy OpenStack environments from the ground up controller, compute, storage, and network nodes across development and production.
• Install and configure core OpenStack services including Keystone (identity), Nova (compute), Neutron (networking), Glance (images), Cinder (block storage), Swift (object storage), and Horizon (dashboard).
• Use deployment tooling such as Kolla-Ansible, TripleO, OpenStack-Ansible, or Juju/MAAS for repeatable, automated builds.
• Design and implement high-availability architectures for control-plane services, message queues (RabbitMQ), and databases (MariaDB/Galera).
• Configure Ceph or equivalent backend storage integration for Cinder, Glance, and Nova ephemeral storage
• Perform day-to-day administration of the OpenStack environment projects, tenants, quotas, flavors, images, and user access.
• Provision and manage instances, virtual networks, routers, floating IPs, security groups, and load balancers on behalf of internal consumers.
• Execute OpenStack version upgrades, patching, and service restarts with minimal disruption to running workloads.
• Monitor platform health, capacity, and performance; forecast growth and plan compute, storage, and network expansion.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues across compute, networking (OVS/OVN), storage, and control-plane services using service logs and CLI/API diagnostics.
• Install and administer Linux operating systems (RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu) that host OpenStack services and compute nodes.
• Manage LVM — physical volumes, volume groups, and logical volumes — including resizing, extending, and snapshot operations.
• Configure file systems, disk partitioning, storage mounts, and kernel/system-level performance tuning.
• Handle patching, user and permission management, SSH access, systemd services, and security hardening across the Linux estate.
• Automate operational and diagnostic tasks with shell scripting (Bash) and scheduled jobs.
• Basic understanding of networking fundamentals.
• Understanding of Kubernetes architecture and managing clusters , control plane , networking and storage of cluster is added advantage.
• Candidate who has knowledge of VMWARE architecture and its administration would be preferred.
• 4–5 years of relevant experience in deploying, managing, and maintaining production OpenStack environments.
• Candidate must be willing to work on any new hypervisor technology and willing to develop deep understanding of hypervisor.
• Familiarity with Helm, GitOps workflows, and CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions).
• Conduct POC for the products and demonstrate the clusters and its working.

Qualifications & Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology.
• Preferred certifications : COA (Certified OpenStack Administrator) or Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenStack.

Soft Skills

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting ability under pressure during production incidents.
• Clear written and verbal communication; able to document and explain complex systems.
• Ownership mindset, comfortable working independently and collaborating across teams.
• Disciplined about change management, security, and operational best practices.
• Ability to take responsibility for tasks and ensure completion of the same.
• Should be willing to work 24X7 rotational shifts
• Should be willing to work anywhere in Mumbai/Navi-Mumbai/Thane
• Excellent English language skills, spoken and written
• Candidate must have service oriented approach while working with customers and internal teams.
• Candidate must be able to log calls with OEM/Support teams and escalate cleanly when required.