Lead Red Hat Linux Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, and configuration of RHOSP 17.1-based cloud environments, including compute, storage, and networking.
• Deliver fully configured and validated OpenStack environments aligned with organizational and client objectives.
• Define and enforce Linux and OpenStack architectural standards, ensuring scalability, automation, and security.
• Collaborate with Cloud, DevOps, and Application teams to integrate workloads across private and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
• Manage day-to-day OpenStack operations to ensure system uptime, stability, and performance.
• Oversee monitoring integration, patch management, node scaling, and performance tuning.
• Implement automation for backups, configuration management, and disaster recovery.

Technical Focus Areas

• Review Ceilometer and STF configurations to verify metric collection accuracy.
• Integrate RHOSP telemetry (Ceilometer/Prometheus) and alert pipelines.
• Perform log reviews across OpenStack services and identify recurring fault patterns.
• Plan and test RHOSP upgrades in lab/staging environments before production rollout.
• Automate backup and recovery processes for OpenStack databases, configurations, and metadata.
• Validate restore procedures and document disaster recovery verification steps.
• Review STIG compliance guidance and validate current configurations against RHOSP 17.x standards.
• Verify firewall, SELinux, and authentication policies on controller and compute nodes.
• Conduct vulnerability scans using Red Hat Insights or OpenSCAP, tracking remediation and compliance.
• Add and validate compute nodes using Director (TripleO).
• Support GPU node onboarding and verify Nova GPU scheduling.
• Perform performance tuning for Nova, Neutron, and Cinder services.
• Develop Ansible playbooks for provisioning, patching, and backups.
• Maintain Git-based automation repositories for version control and change management.
• Identify knowledge or tooling gaps across RHOSP environments.
• Propose and lead training or shadowing sessions for OpenStack and Ansible operations.
• Provide monthly improvement reports on performance, automation, and reliability metrics.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of Linux system architecture and administration experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and RHOSP (preferably 17.1).
• Proven experience architecting and operating private or hybrid OpenStack clouds.
• Strong expertise in Ansible, Terraform, Git, and automation workflows.
• Solid knowledge of Prometheus, Alert manager, Grafana, and STF.
• Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with cross-functional collaboration.
• Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) or equivalent certification preferred.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with iSCSI/NFS storage, and GPU integration within OpenStack.
• Familiarity with multi-cloud operations (AWS, Azure).
• Knowledge of Red Hat security frameworks.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Opportunity to lead enterprise-scale RHOSP and STF modernization initiatives.
• A collaborative, high-performance engineering culture.