Senior DevOps Engineer, OpenStack Team

<h3>Company Description</h3><p><strong>About Mirantis</strong></p><p>Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. 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.</p><p> </p><h3>Job Description</h3><p>We are looking for a<strong> Senior DevOps Engineer to join the MOSK (Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes) product</strong> team, working at the intersection of OpenStack, Kubernetes, and product engineering. In this role, you will help design, validate, and evolve a cloud-native OpenStack platform that enables customers to build and operate enterprise-grade private clouds at scale.</p><p>As a senior engineer, you will act as a technical authority on OpenStack and MOSK behavior, contribute to architectural decisions, support complex customer scenarios, and help ensure stable, high-quality product releases.</p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p><p><strong>Feature Design &amp; Development</strong></p><ul><li><p>Contribute to Product Roadmap: Actively influence the MOSK roadmap and backlog by providing technical input on feature feasibility, architectural scalability, and long-term maintainability. 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.</p></li><li><p>Lifecycle 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.</p></li><li><p>Feature Validation &amp; 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.</p></li><li><p>Technical Design Reviews: Review and refine product designs, APIs, and implementations to ensure robustness, security, and a high-quality developer experience.</p></li><li><p>Engineering Leadership: Lead design discussions, planning sessions, and retrospectives; help the team to uphold high standards for software quality, architectural rigor, and operational readiness.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Product Engineering &amp; Automation</strong></p><ul><li><p>Frameworks &amp; Tooling Development: Design, implement, and maintain core frameworks, libraries, and internal tools that underpin MOSK development, testing, and lifecycle operations.</p></li><li><p>Advanced Automation: Build and evolve automation for deploying and managing complex OpenStack-on-Kubernetes environments used in development, testing, and validation.</p></li><li><p>CI/CD Architecture: Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and integrations with external systems to streamline build, test, validation, upgrade, and release workflows.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Operational Reliability</strong></p><ul><li><p>Tier-3 Escalation Support: Debug and resolve complex issues in customer production environments involving Kubernetes, OpenStack, networking, storage, and distributed systems.</p></li><li><p>Upstream Troubleshooting &amp; 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.</p></li><li><p>Performance &amp; Scalability Analysis: Identify and analyze performance bottlenecks across hardware and software layers; provide fixes, optimizations, and tuning recommendations.</p></li><li><p>Operational Readiness: Manage and improve development, staging, and validation environments that closely mirror customer deployments to ensure release stability.</p></li><li><p>Product 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. Participate in technical reviews, demos, and knowledge-sharing sessions to support engineering and other customer-facing teams.</p></li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><strong>Expe