Lead SRE

HOSTKEY is looking for a Lead SRE to develop OpenStack infrastructure. Remote, full-time, salary 250-350k RUB.

HOSTKEY is a cloud infrastructure and dedicated server provider. We are actively developing virtualization based on OpenStack and migrating from the previous platform. OpenStack is a strategic direction with clusters in several locations, and we plan significant growth. We need an engineer to take technical ownership: deploy clusters from scratch, build migration systems, and resolve complex incidents. Responsibilities: deploy new OpenStack clusters from scratch (Kolla/Kolla-Ansible) and support them; migrate virtual machines from the current platform to OpenStack; build a reliable migration system; resolve complex infrastructure incidents (L3/L4) and analyze root causes; optimize performance (CPU, disk, network); automate processes with Ansible, Bash, GitLab CI/CD; work with bare-metal servers and system backups; maintain technical documentation; participate in architectural decisions and capacity planning; collaborate with hardware team and tech lead.

Deep production OpenStack experience: deploying and configuring core components (Nova, Neutron/OVN, Cinder, Glance, Keystone) including via Kolla/Kolla-Ansible. Experience migrating VMs from other platforms (KVM, Proxmox, VMware, oVirt) to OpenStack. Expert level in at least one area: networking (SDN, OVS/OVN, VXLAN), storage (Ceph/SDS), or virtualization (KVM/QEMU/libvirt). Linux administration (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS): namespaces, cgroups. Fluent Ansible (playbooks/roles) and Bash. Understanding TCP/IP, routing, NAT, virtual networks. Experience diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure incidents. Nice to have: Go (Golang) for automation and services; experience in a large cloud provider or hoster; Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes; Prometheus + Grafana, ELK/EFK; RabbitMQ, HAProxy, Nginx, Keepalived; experience designing cluster architecture from scratch.

Remote work, full-time, 5/2. Salary 250-350k RUB (net). Legal employment under Russian Labor Code or as individual entrepreneur. Accredited IT company. Medical insurance after probation. Opportunity to influence architecture and development. Mentor (tech lead of OpenStack) at start; access and materials provided on first day. Partial compensation for English classes.