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We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.\nWe thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.\nAbout the Role\nWe’re hiring an Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack Ironic Specialist) to design, operate, and continuously improve the bare metal provisioning platforms that underpin Nscale’s infrastructure.\nThis role sits within the Infrastructure Engineering team, which is responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and ongoing improvement of the infrastructure stack supporting both internal and customer-facing services. You’ll work closely with network, compute, data centre, support, and pre-sales teams, while also serving as a specialist escalation point for advanced provisioning and hardware issues.\nThis is a high-impact role focused on OpenStack Ironic, automated hardware lifecycle management, and the reliable operation of large-scale physical infrastructure. You’ll also help connect Nscale to the broader upstream OpenStack community, ensuring our bare metal platforms evolve in line with real operational needs and industry direction.\nWhat you'll be doing\nBare Metal Provisioning & Lifecycle Management\nDesign scalable and resilient bare metal provisioning platforms with a strong focus on OpenStack Ironic.\nOwn the full lifecycle of physical infrastructure, including discovery, enrolment, provisioning, cleaning, deprovisioning, and hardware state management.\nBuild and maintain provisioning workflows for a wide range of hardware profiles, including GPU-enabled and high-performance server platforms.\nSupport platform upgrades, lifecycle management, and operational improvements across Ironic and its dependencies.\nAutomation & Platform Integration\nManage and improve integrations between Ironic and related OpenStack services such as Nova, Neutron, Glance, Keystone, and Placement.\nDrive automation for hardware onboarding, firmware and BIOS configuration, deployment workflows, validation, and recovery.\nImplement infrastructure automation using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management approaches.\nEnsure provisioning platforms and operational processes align with security, compliance, and operational standards.\nTroubleshooting, Reliability & Operational Support\nTroubleshoot complex issues across provisioning pipelines, PXE/iPXE, BMC interfaces, out-of-band management, image deployment, network boot, and hardware compatibility.\nAct as a 3rd/4th line escalation point for advanced bare metal and provisioning incidents.\nPerform root cause analysis and implement long-term fixes to improve platform reliability and repeatability.\nParticipate in on-call rotations and incident response activities for critical infrastructure services.\nCross-Functional Collaboration & Community Engagement\nCollaborate with network, compute, data centre, and support teams to deliver reliable physical infrastructure services.\nContribute specialist input to infrastructure roadmap planning, capacity expansion, standard builds, and hardware platform qualification.\nSupport pre-sales and solution design efforts with expert guidance on bare metal capabilities, operational models, and deployment constraints.\nContribute to upstream OpenStack bare metal communities through bug reports, testing, reviews, design discussions, and code contributions where appropriate.\nTrack upstream roadmaps and release changes to help shape Nscale’s bare metal strategy, upgrade planning, and platform standards.\nKPIs\nAutomated provisioning and hardware onboarding reliability\nBare metal incident resolution and root cause closure\nPlatform upgrade and lifecycle delivery across Ironic dependencies\nUpstream OpenStack Ironic community contribution and adoption alignment\nAbout You\nStrong experience operating Linux systems and troubleshooting production infrastructure\nStrong specialist knowledge of OpenStack Ironic and the surrounding provisioning ecosystem\nStrong 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\nStrong experience with out-of-band management technologies such as Redfish, IPMI, or vendor management interfaces\nStrong experience designing and building automation for physical and virtual infrastructure using tools such as Ansible\nStrong scripting skills in Python and Bash\nExperience troubleshooting complex provisioning and hardware integration issues across server, network, and management layers\nExperience operating infrastructure at scale with a focus on reliability, repeatability, and operational safety\nAbility to collaborate across infrastructure, support, and architecture teams to solve complex technical problems\nExperience contributing to or working closely with upstream open-source communities, particularly OpenStack, Ironic, Metal3, or related infrastructure projects, is highly desirable\nWhat we can offer you\nAt Nscale, you'll find a collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions spark real impact. We're building something extraordinary, and we want you at the core.\nHighly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity), with performance reviews every 12 months.\nJoin one of the fastest-growing AI infrastructure companies - your chance to directly shape how global AI capacity is planned and deployed.\nExpect a dynamic progression plan tailored to your ambitions. Grow by leading critical cross-functional initiatives and shaping capital strategy - always with our full support.\nHuman-First Flexibility: We treat you as humans first. Our flexible workplace trusts Nscalers to deliver, giving you the autonomy to shape your day around life's moments.\nEqual Opportunities Statement\nWe strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.\nIf there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.\nThe responsibilities outlined in this job description are not exhaustive and are intended to provide a general overview of the position. The employee may be required to perform additional duties, tasks, and responsibilities as assigned by management, consistent with the skills and qualifications required for the role.\nFor information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.\nFor information on how Nscale handles candidate personal data, please see our Employee & Candidate Privacy Notice: Here.\nSalary Range\nThe range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job-related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. 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