SC cleared Red Hat OpenStack Engineer

This role focuses on designing, deploying, troubleshooting a secure grade private environment using Red Hat's supported distribution of the OpenStack open-source cloud operating system: Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP). It will be deployed between two sites, in a resilient design. The RHOSP engineer will support an existing engineering team with the higher-level components of the overall design. Contributing to meetings, discussion and High Level design. Key Responsibilities Architecture & Design: Leading the design and planning of highly available, scalable OpenStack cloud solutions Deployment & Configuration: Installing and configuring the core OpenStack services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, etc.) often using Red Hat OpenStack Director (the installer/manager). Automation: Automating cloud provisioning, configuration, and orchestration using tools like Ansible, Python, or Bash scripting. Integration: Integrating OpenStack with other critical services, especially Red Hat Ceph Storage for persistent storage and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) as the underlying operating system. Delivery: Performing advanced troubleshooting, patching, upgrades, capacity planning, and performance tuning of the OpenStack environment. Container Integration: Increasingly, this role involves enabling container platforms like Red Hat OpenShift to run on top of the OpenStack virtual machines (VMs). Essential commercial experience Expert-level Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) administration, including networking, security, storage, and performance tuning. Deep knowledge of core services (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, Glance, Swift Experience of Ansible for configuration management and orchestration, and scripting with Python or Go. Expertise in KVM (the hypervisor used by OpenStack) and related concepts. Hands-on experience with Red Hat Ceph Storage for OpenStack integration. Advanced networking skills (TCP/IP, VLANs, VXLANs, routing) and OpenStack Neutron configuration. Experience of RED HAT and WINDOWs integration. Including active directory *Rates depend on experience and client requirements