Staff Systems Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure

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Staff Systems Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure (OpenStack & OpenShift)

Position: Staff Systems Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure

Grade: IT4

Location: Noida / Bangalore

Employment Type: Full-Time

Job Summary

We are seeking a Staff Systems Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure to design, implement, and manage large-scale public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms, with deep expertise in OpenStack, OpenShift, and cloud IaaS/container technologies. This role serves as a technical authority and architect for cloud infrastructure platforms that power mission-critical workloads across EDA, Systems design, AI/ML, and high-performance computing environments.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on engineering depth, strong systems thinking, and a proven track record of leading complex cloud platform initiatives—from architecture through production operations—while mentoring senior engineers and influencing platform strategy across the organization. Experience with container platforms (OpenShift/Kubernetes) and the emerging Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift (RHOSO) model is a strong advantage.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Platform Architecture & Strategy

• Define and implement reference architectures for private cloud (OpenStack), container platforms (OpenShift), and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
• Contribute towards architectural decisions for compute, storage, networking, and control plane services at scale.
• Ensure platform consistency, scalability, resiliency, and operational excellence across regions and data centers.
• Evaluate and guide adoption of emerging cloud, container, and IaaS technologies aligned with business and platform strategy.

Private Cloud & OpenStack Leadership:

• Serve as a technical expert for OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, Heat, Octavia, etc.).
• Monitor, maintain, and optimize OpenStack deployments for performance, availability, upgradeability, and lifecycle management.
• Lead complex upgrades, migrations, and capacity expansions with minimal customer impact.
• Define best practices for multi-tenant isolation, quota management, and SLA-driven design.

Container Platform & OpenShift Engineering:

• Design, deploy, and operate OpenShift/Kubernetes clusters supporting containerized and cloud-native workloads.
• Manage cluster lifecycle including provisioning, scaling, upgrades, and patching.
• Implement best practices for container networking, storage integration, RBAC, and workload isolation.
• Integrate OpenShift platforms with underlying OpenStack and bare-metal infrastructure.
• Contribute to adoption and operations of RHOSO (Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift), where the OpenStack control plane runs on OpenShift.

Public Cloud & Hybrid Cloud Integration:

• Design and integrate workloads across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP alongside private cloud platforms.
• Establish patterns for hybrid networking, identity federation, and workload portability.
• Provide technical guidance on cloud-native and IaaS-based workload placement decisions.

Infrastructure Engineering & Automation

• Develop infrastructure-as-code and automation using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Helm, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Promote platform standardization, self-service provisioning, and repeatable operational workflows.
• Perform SRE and operations activities to improve observability, reliability, and incident response.

Performance, Scale & Reliability

• Perform root cause analysis for complex platform issues across compute, network, storage, and container layers.
• Optimize cloud and container platforms for high-performance workloads, including AI/ML, batch, and HPC-style systems.
• Monitor and improve key reliability, performance, and capacity metrics.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a senior technical authority across cloud and infrastructure teams.
• Mentor senior engineers and raise the technical bar across the organization.
• Influence roadmap priorities through deep technical insight and clear communication with engineering and technical leaders.
• Partner closely with security, networking, hardware, and application teams to deliver integrated solutions.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 8+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or large-scale platform engineering.
• Deep, hands-on experience with OpenStack in production environments.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating OpenShift / Kubernetes clusters in production.
• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale private and hybrid cloud platforms.
• Demonstrated leadership on complex, cross-team infrastructure initiatives.

Technical Expertise

• Strong knowledge of: OpenStack services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, etc.)
• OpenShift/Kubernetes container orchestration and cluster operations
• Linux systems and virtualization (KVM)
• Software-defined networking (SDN), L2/L3 networking, load balancing
• Distributed storage systems (Ceph, object/block storage)
• Experience with: Public cloud IaaS (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Infrastructure automation and IaC
• CI/CD pipelines supporting platform engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with RHOSO (Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift) or the OpenStack-on-OpenShift control plane model.
• Red Hat certifications (RHCE, Red Hat Certified OpenStack Administrator, or Red Hat Certified OpenShift Administrator).
• Experience supporting HPC/EDA workloads on cloud platforms.
• Exposure to bare-metal provisioning, hardware lifecycle management, and data center operations.
• Familiarity with SRE practices, reliability engineering, and large-scale observability platforms.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence at senior and executive levels.

Educational Qualification

• BE/BTech/ME/MTech in CS/Electronics or equivalent.

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