Senior OpenStack Engineer - US

About Us Onemind Services, LLC, is a distinguished MSP, CSP, and ISP, creating its own proprietary products. Our flagship, Cloudmylab, is the world's leading hosted lab solution, built entirely within our data centers. Serving the DoD and Fortune 100 companies, we're expanding our Public Cloud worldwide, powered by robust, self-owned infrastructure and unparalleled engineering expertise. Dedicated to innovation and security, our team is committed to excellence, providing scalable, efficient, and reliable solutions for digital transformation. Job Description This is a remote position. About the Role We are seeking a deeply technical Senior OpenStack Engineer to design, build, automate, scale, and operate large-scale production OpenStack environments powering enterprise private clouds, MSP platforms, and high-performance digital twin lab infrastructures. This is not a UI-driven admin role. We are looking for engineers who understand OpenStack at the service, database, messaging, hypervisor, and packet-flow layers — individuals who can troubleshoot RabbitMQ queues, debug Neutron agents, tune Ceph latency, and automate full cloud deployments from bare metal upward. You will work on multi-region architectures, high-availability designs, NVMe storage fabrics, SDN integrations, and hybrid cloud platforms supporting global customers. Primary Responsibilities 1. OpenStack Architecture & Platform Engineering - Design production-grade OpenStack environments across controller, compute, and storage nodes. - Architect HA control planes using HAProxy , Keepalived , Galera, and RabbitMQ clustering. - Build scalable cell-based Nova architectures. - Implement multi-region replication strategies. - Perform platform capacity modeling and growth forecasting. 2. Compute Virtualization (Nova) - Nova scheduler tuning and filters. - CPU pinning and isolation. - NUMA topology alignment. - HugePages configuration. - Live migrations and evacuations. - GPU passthrough and SR-IOV provisioning. Hypervisor stack includes KVM, QEMU, Libvirt , and VirtIO . 3. Networking & SDN (Neutron) - ML2 plugin architecture. - OVS, OVN, Linux Bridge deployments. - VXLAN, Geneve, VLAN overlays. - DVR and L3 routing. - Floating IP NAT design. - SR-IOV and DPDK acceleration. - Integration with BGP EVPN, MPLS, VRFs, and SD-WAN. 4. Storage Engineering Ceph (Primary Requirement) - RBD block storage. - CephFS and RGW object storage. - CRUSH map tuning. - Placement group optimization. - BlueStore performance tuning. - NVMe and SSD tiering. Additional exposure to Linstor , DRBD, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF preferred. 5. Image & Lifecycle Services - Glance image pipelines. - QCOW2 optimization. - Cloud- init automation. - Golden image lifecycle management. 6. Identity & Access (Keystone) - RBAC modeling . - LDAP/AD integration. - SAML/SSO federation. - Token lifecycle management. 7. Orchestration & Automation - Heat orchestration templates. - Terraform automation. - Ansible playbooks.