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By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment-on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy.\nWe are looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the MOSK (Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes) product team, working at the intersection of OpenStack, Kubernetes, and product engineering. 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Evaluate incoming customer requests for specific features by analyzing upstream OpenStack code, specifications, blueprints, and community documentation to assess feature maturity, stability, limitations, and operational caveats.\nLifecycle Management Engineering: Design, implement, and document lifecycle management for OpenStack on Kubernetes - a core MOSK capability - with emphasis on non-disruptive upgrades, patching, scaling, rollback strategies, and feature compatibility across upgrades.\nFeature Validation & Integration: Drive validation of enabled features by defining test scenarios, validating upstream code behavior in simulated or production-like deployments, and then integrating feature support into MOSK’s lifecycle management.\nTechnical Design Reviews: Review and refine product designs, APIs, and implementations to ensure robustness, security, and a high-quality developer experience.\nEngineering Leadership: Lead design discussions, planning sessions, and retrospectives; help the team to uphold high standards for software quality, architectural rigor, and operational readiness.\nProduct Engineering & Automation\nFrameworks & Tooling Development: Design, implement, and maintain core frameworks, libraries, and internal tools that underpin MOSK development, testing, and lifecycle operations.\nAdvanced Automation: Build and evolve automation for deploying and managing complex OpenStack-on-Kubernetes environments used in development, testing, and validation.\nCI/CD Architecture: Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and integrations with external systems to streamline build, test, validation, upgrade, and release workflows.\nOperational Reliability\nTier-3 Escalation Support: Debug and resolve complex issues in customer production environments involving Kubernetes, OpenStack, networking, storage, and distributed systems.\nUpstream Troubleshooting & Contributions: Investigate issues in OpenStack services, analyze root causes at the code level, and propose or contribute minor fixes upstream to improve product stability and supportability.\nPerformance & Scalability Analysis: Identify and analyze performance bottlenecks across hardware and software layers; provide fixes, optimizations, and tuning recommendations.\nOperational Readiness: Manage and improve development, staging, and validation environments that closely mirror customer deployments to ensure release stability.\nProduct Knowledge Authority: Act as an authoritative technical source for MOSK and OpenStack behavior, providing accurate, engineering-level input to documentation, field, and enablement teams to ensure correctness and consistency of product documentation and guidance. 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Experience with managing and configuring networking equipment. \nAutomation Tools: Practical experience with SaltStack, Puppet, Ansible, or Chef for medium and large environments.\nInfrastructure as Code: Practical experience with Terraform.\nContainerization: Be an expert in Docker and Kubernetes in production environments. Thorough understanding and practical experience with Kubernetes operators and Helm.\nCI/CD: Strong experience with Jenkins and building dependable build/release pipelines.\nFamiliarity with code-review systems \nCloud Platforms: Understanding of principles of working in cloud environments such as OpenStack, AWS, GCP, or Azure.\nScripting & Programming: Strong scripting skills in Bash, Groovy, and Python (at least one is required). Mid-level experience with Go or C is valuable.\nPreferred Qualifications (Will be a plus)\n Deep understanding of OpenStack architecture and experience with running it in production.\nKnowledge and experience with SDN (Software Defined Networking) solutions - Open Virtual Network, Open vSwitch. \nExperience in managing and using Open Search, Grafana, and Prometheus stacks.\nContribution to open-source projects.\nSoft Skills\nEnglish language proficiency at least at an intermediate level (spoken and written).\nGood customer-facing communication skills and a sense of diplomacy.\nAbility to work with geographically distributed international teams in a dynamic environment.\nAnalytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.\n What does Mirantis offer you?\nWork in a global, collaborative, remote-first culture that rewards initiative and execution.\n\nPlay a pivotal role in shaping the next era of cloud and AI modernisation.\n\nManage high-impact enterprise accounts with immediate opportunity for growth.\n\nWork with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers implement next-generation cloud technologies.\n\nBe a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation.\n\nThrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued.\n\nAttend conferences and working groups.\n\nCustomized workstation (macOS, Windows).\n\nProfessional development and training.\n\nCompetitive compensation, performance incentives, and opportunities for advancement.\n\nIt is understood that Mirantis, Inc. may use automated decision-making technology (ADMT) for specific employment-related decisions. 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