OpenStack Virtualization Engineer (Senior)

HOSTKEY, a cloud infrastructure provider, seeks a Senior OpenStack engineer to lead virtualization development, deploy clusters, and build migration systems. Remote, full-time, salary 250-350k RUB.

HOSTKEY is a cloud infrastructure and dedicated server provider actively developing OpenStack-based virtualization. As part of this strategic direction, you will take technical ownership, deploying clusters from scratch, building migration systems, and resolving complex outages. Responsibilities: - Deploy and support new OpenStack clusters from scratch in various locations (Kolla/Kolla-Ansible). - Migrate VMs from the current virtualization platform to OpenStack; build a reliable migration system. - Resolve complex infrastructure outages and incidents (L3/L4 level), perform root cause analysis. - Optimize performance: CPU, disk operations, network. - Automate processes with Ansible, Bash, GitLab CI/CD. - Work with bare-metal: server configuration, system-level backup. - Maintain technical documentation and instructions for L1/L2 engineers. - Participate in architectural decisions and capacity planning. - Collaborate with the hardware assembly/operation team and the tech lead of the direction.

Required: - Deep production experience with OpenStack: deployment and configuration of 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. - Ansible (playbooks/roles) and Bash - proficient. - Understanding of TCP/IP, routing, NAT, virtual networks. - Experience diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure outages. 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 architecting clusters from scratch as an author of the solution.

Remote work, full-time, 5/2 schedule. Salary: 250-350 thousand RUB (net). Employment under Russian Labor Code or as self-employed (IP). Accredited IT company. Medical insurance (DMS) after probation period. Opportunity to influence architecture and direction development. Mentor at start - tech lead of OpenStack direction; access and materials provided on the first day. Partial compensation for English language training.