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We’re business enablers offering a hosting service for our customers to create and transact online. We spend each day working hard to retain the trust of our customers. Inspired by our brand promise ‘trusted in hosting’, we deliver a web hosting service that is reliable and consistent, focusing on infrastructure stability, good value and consistent service delivery.\nWe’re looking for a talented Openstack Infrastructure Engineer to help us build, manage and scale our Openstack compute and storage infrastructure. Experience in building Openstack infrastructure from the ground up will be a distinct advantage, but is not an absolute requirement.\nIf you love all things Internet, IPv4 & 6, hypervisors, scaling compute and storage, IaC and open source in general, you could find a meaningful opportunity at xneelo. If you are after autonomy, mastery and purpose, come and chat with us. If you find a powerful sense of achievement in putting your skill and personal strengths into action to deliver customer value through world class compute and storage hosting platforms, then we really want to chat to you.\nLocation: South Africa\nRequirements\nThe strengths and experience we’re looking for in potential teammates:\nExperience operating open-source infrastructure systems. Extensive experience will be expected at senior level.\n\nOpenStack implementation, operations or troubleshooting experience.\n\nExperience with Ceph or similar distributed storage systems, including capacity, replication, failure domains, recovery, latency and performance.\n\nStrong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.\n\nPractical knowledge of data-centre-grade hardware, including enterprise servers, CPUs, memory, storage media, NICs, firmware and out-of-band management.\n\nAn understanding of how hardware design, power, cooling, rack layout and component failure affect platform reliability and performance.\n\nStrong networking fundamentals, with experience in OVN, OVS, BGP underlays, LACP, Juniper, IPv4, IPv6 and physical or virtual cloud networks being advantageous.\n\nThe ability to troubleshoot across compute, storage, physical and virtual networking, databases, message queues, containers, hypervisors and guest workloads.\n\nExperience with virtualisation and cloud infrastructure at scale.\n\nA security-minded approach to architecture, automation, access control and operational workflows.\n\nAn SRE mindset focused on reducing failure probability, recovery time, operational risk and data-loss exposure.\n\nExperience with Infrastructure as Code, configuration management and automation practices.\n\nA preference for repeatable, version-controlled automation over undocumented manual work.\n\nDiscipline when planning and executing upgrades, migrations and high-impact infrastructure changes.\n\nStrong end-to-end ownership, from physical infrastructure and network fabric through OpenStack services to customer workloads.\n\nThe ability to reason about capacity and performance across CPU, memory, storage, IOPS, latency, throughput, packet rates and control-plane scale.\n\nThe ability to use AI-assisted tools productively while understanding their limitations. AI may accelerate research, troubleshooting, documentation and automation, but does not replace engineering judgement, experience, peer review or testing.\n\nClear technical documentation skills, including architecture decisions, runbooks, change plans, incident findings and recovery procedures.\n\nThe ability to contribute constructively to technical reviews, challenge unsafe assumptions and respond well to detailed feedback.\n\nThe ability to work effectively in a distributed, largely asynchronous team.\n\nA willingness to participate in an on-call rotation managed through Rootly and respond to occasional out-of-hours incidents, maintenance or operational requests when required.\n\nGets the difference between “done” and “97% done” and the potentially significant costs of the latter.\n\nOur current tech stack and tooling includes Ubuntu Linux, Ansible, Openstack, Ceph, Terraform, Rundeck, LXC, Nspawn, OVN, OVS, BGP, JunOS, LACP, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, Git, Jira and more. Experience with a reasonable number of these or similar will be important. Even more important is your ability to use these and similar tools to innovate, solve complex IT infrastructure problems and to do this as a strong team player.\nWe are looking for talented engineers for these roles and salary will be negotiable, commensurate with your skills and track record.\nAt xneelo, our sincere desire is that our team members are inspired by their success and able to operate with a high level of discretion and autonomy guided by our principles and values. 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