Senior Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack Ironic Specialist)

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential cloud infrastructure organization seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer specializing in bare metal provisioning platforms. In this role, you will:

• Design scalable and resilient bare metal provisioning platforms with a strong focus on OpenStack Ironic
• Own the full lifecycle of physical infrastructure, including discovery, enrollment, provisioning, cleaning, deprovisioning, and hardware state management
• Build and maintain provisioning workflows for diverse hardware profiles, including GPU-enabled and high-performance server platforms
• Manage and improve integrations between Ironic and related OpenStack services such as Nova, Neutron, Glance, Keystone, and Placement
• Drive automation for hardware onboarding, firmware and BIOS configuration, deployment workflows, validation, and recovery using infrastructure-as-code approaches
• Troubleshoot complex issues across provisioning pipelines, PXE/iPXE, BMC interfaces, out-of-band management, image deployment, network boot, and hardware compatibility
• Act as a 3rd/4th line escalation point for advanced bare metal and provisioning incidents
• Perform root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes to improve platform reliability
• Participate in on-call rotations and incident response activities for critical infrastructure services
• Collaborate with network, compute, data center, and support teams to deliver reliable physical infrastructure services
• Contribute to upstream OpenStack bare metal communities through bug reports, testing, reviews, and design discussions
• Track upstream roadmaps and release changes to help shape bare metal strategy and platform standards

What We're Looking For

• Strong experience operating Linux systems and troubleshooting production infrastructure
• Strong specialist knowledge of OpenStack Ironic and the surrounding provisioning ecosystem
• Strong understanding of bare metal provisioning concepts including PXE/iPXE, DHCP, TFTP/HTTP boot, BMC technologies, RAID configuration, firmware management, disk imaging, and node lifecycle states
• Strong experience with out-of-band management technologies such as Redfish, IPMI, or vendor management interfaces
• Strong experience designing and building automation for physical and virtual infrastructure using tools such as Ansible
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash
• Experience troubleshooting complex provisioning and hardware integration issues across server, network, and management layers
• Experience operating infrastructure at scale with a focus on reliability, repeatability, and operational safety
• Ability to collaborate across infrastructure, support, and architecture teams to solve complex technical problems
• Experience contributing to or working closely with upstream open-source communities, particularly OpenStack, Ironic, Metal3, or related infrastructure projects, is highly desirable

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your background and conduct an initial screening to ensure alignment with the role requirements. If we determine you're a strong match, we will submit your profile to our client for consideration. We ask that you do not contact the client directly, as all communication and coordination will be managed through our recruitment process to ensure the best experience for all parties.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience and qualifications.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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