SRE Engineer- Remote, Only W2
Role: SRE Engineer (OpenStack ) - Remote
Experience: SRE / OpenStack Platform / Private Cloud Operations
Time zone: EST
Location: On-site candidates who can work in EST
- Must-Have (Non-Negotiable)
- Strong Linux, Networking & Storage fundamentals
- Linux internals, kernel tuning (RHCE-adjacent), filesystems, partitions
- Storage: LVM, SCSI multipath, Ceph basics, IO troubleshooting
- Networking: DHCP, DNS, VLANs, bonding, basic routing, tcpdump/traceroute
- OpenStack Services Operations & Troubleshooting
- Hands-on experience managing and triaging OpenStack services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone)
- Production issue troubleshooting, RCA, customer-facing debugging
- Good to Have / Learnable
- Kubernetes - Basic understanding of pods, services, and cluster concepts (deep expertise not mandatory)
- Monitoring & Observability - Fundamentals of metrics, alerts, and logs (Grafana / Prometheus ecosystem preferred)
- Automation - Basic scripting in Python or Go
- Role Expectations
- Troubleshoot complex platform issues in customer OpenStack/Linux environments
- Participate in incident management, RCAs, and on-call rotation
- Proactive system monitoring and performance tuning
- Collaborate with engineering on fixes, PRs, and platform improvements
- Clear communication with customers over calls and written channels
Note: Linux / Openstack Certifications are desirable / not mandatory
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