OpenStack Cloud Engineer - Remote, London, St Albans

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OpenStack Cloud Engineer

Remote working or London or St Albans

£50k

We are seeking motivated and agile software/OpenStack engineers to develop and maintain our exciting new OpenStack based cloud solutions. My client delivers enterprise grade private Cloud Computing solution based on OpenStack and to contribute to the community.

Core responsibilities:

* Design, develop and maintain projects related to their platform

* Assist in Proof of Concepts, work with our Pre-Sales team on use-cases

* Collaborate, evaluate and implement features from technology partners

* Maintain Cloud related packages during their lifecycle

* Represent client in conferences and meetings and contribute code to Open Source projects such as OpenStack and others

* Become one the internal subject matter expert on projects/technologies such as kolla, horizon, neutron, ironic, nova, heat, keystone, cinder, monasca and others

Required skills:

* Excellent experience in software development, specifically on Linux systems

* Good programming skills in Python

* Fundamental understanding of the Linux OS and shell scripting

* Basic understanding of OpenStack, its components and architecture

* Experience with source code management systems (ideally Github) and packaging

* Strong communication, interpersonal, verbal, and written skills (emails, IRC) in English

Desired skills:

* Experience of Open Source communities/projects

* Experience of Agile continuous development projects

* Experience working with distributed teams

* Experience working with Pre-Sales or customers on proof of concepts, understanding use-cases and resolving roadblocks

* Experience working with technology partners on joint solutions

* Experience in working with High Performance Computing System (HPC)

* Strong technical knowledge of Linux-based cloud infrastructure technologies, such as; virtualisation, containerisation or software-defined networking (SDN)

* Understanding of the design of OpenStack services

* Experience with SQL database administration

* Development of applications that use or implement RESTful services

* Programming in Python to an advanced level