Openstack Engineer

PLATFORM ENGINEER | OPENSTACK

I’m recruiting an experienced OpenStack Engineer to join a leading UK hybrid cloud and managed services provider.

This isn’t a traditional infrastructure support role. You’ll work behind the scenes on the engineering that powers a secure, highly available cloud platform, building automation, developing backend tooling and onboarding customers into complex OpenStack environments.

The role will involve:

• Engineering and improving OpenStack cloud platforms

• Onboarding new customers and workloads

• Developing backend tooling and automation using Python

• Automating platform provisioning and configuration

• Working with APIs and systems integrations

• Supporting multi-tenant cloud environments

• Troubleshooting complex platform and deployment issues

• Improving CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code processes

• Supporting platform upgrades, resilience and performance

• Working across Linux, Ubuntu, networking and security

What they’re looking for:

• Strong Python scripting or backend engineering skills

• Hands-on experience with OpenStack environments

• Strong Linux and Ubuntu knowledge

• Experience automating infrastructure and operational processes

• An understanding of APIs, integrations and cloud networking

• Experience onboarding customers or deploying workloads onto cloud platforms

• Familiarity with CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code tooling

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

• Exposure to Kubernetes and container platforms would be beneficial

Why it’s worth exploring:

✅ A genuine backend platform engineering role

✅ Hands-on Python development and automation

✅ OpenStack engineering at scale

✅ Work on secure, sovereign and AI-ready cloud infrastructure

✅ Exposure to Kubernetes and modern cloud-native technologies

✅ Remote UK position with occasional travel

✅ Join a business investing heavily in its cloud platform

If you’re a Platform Engineer, Backend Engineer or OpenStack Engineer who enjoys Python, automation and solving complex cloud infrastructure challenges, I’d be keen to speak with you.

Drop me a message for a confidential conversation.