Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Our client is a fast-growing London technology business serving the financial services sector, and is building its own data centre on Apache CloudStack. They need an experienced CloudStack engineer to help design, build and own the private cloud platform at its core. You'll shape the architecture from day one, make key technical decisions and set the standards the platform runs on. What you'll be doing

• Designing and deploying Apache CloudStack architecture across zones, pods, clusters and hosts, including management server HA.
• Building and running KVM host infrastructure and primary and secondary storage, with Ceph or similar.
• Designing CloudStack networking: advanced zones, VLAN or VXLAN isolation, virtual routers and VPCs.
• Owning platform reliability, upgrades, capacity planning and performance.
• Leading incident investigation across CloudStack, Linux, storage, networking and hardware.
• Automating builds and operations using the CloudStack API, Ansible, Terraform or CloudMonkey.
• Mentoring other engineers and contributing to infrastructure decisions with technical leadership. Essential
• Has deployed and run Apache CloudStack in production, including upgrades, system VMs and troubleshooting. Applications without production CloudStack experience won't be considered.
• Deep Linux and KVM expertise, including troubleshooting at host and hypervisor level.
• Strong networking knowledge covering VLANs, routing and network isolation.
• Experience with storage for virtualised environments, such as Ceph or NFS. Desirable
• VXLAN or BGP experience.
• Infrastructure automation and monitoring, such as Ansible, Terraform and Prometheus/Grafana.
• Experience building a data centre or private cloud from scratch.
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