/ TEAMS · OpenStack Engineering
Scope the exact OpenStack services and releases: Nova compute, Neutron networking, Cinder volumes, Keystone identity and their integration with Ceph or physical infrastructure.
2,000+ engineers in our active talent network · Regional recruiting channels
/ Private-cloud architecture
COMPUTE
01Nova · Placement · KVM
NETWORK
02Neutron · OVS/OVN · VLAN/VXLAN
STORAGE
03Cinder · Glance · Ceph RBD
BARE METAL
04Ironic · BMC · PXE
OPERATIONS
05Keystone · Heat · Monitoring
A technical map for specifying the engineering experience your environment needs.
/ AVAILABLE TO HIRE
Profiles show the experience we can source. Individual candidate availability is confirmed after enquiry.
Mid+ OpenStack Engineer
Inquire availability5+ years of experience · Serbia
OpenStack Engineer with 5 years in production systems, focused on OpenStack Nova and Neutron and KVM and Linux.
Languages: Serbian, English C1
Senior OpenStack Engineer
Available7+ years of experience · Romania
OpenStack Engineer with 7 years in production systems, focused on KVM and Linux and Network automation.
Languages: Romanian, English B2+
Senior OpenStack Engineer
Inquire availability10+ years of experience · Romania
OpenStack Engineer with 10 years in production systems, focused on Network automation and OpenStack Nova and Neutron.
Languages: Romanian, English B2+
Mid-level OpenStack Engineer
Inquire availability3+ years of experience · Czechia
OpenStack Engineer with 3 years in production systems, focused on OpenStack Nova and Neutron and KVM and Linux.
Languages: Czech, English B2+
/ Specialist sourcing
Scope the exact OpenStack services and releases: Nova compute, Neutron networking, Cinder volumes, Keystone identity and their integration with Ceph or physical infrastructure.
Ask for production evidence around an upgrade, failed instance scheduling or Neutron connectivity incident, including rollback and tenant isolation.
Role-specific sourcing, not a promise of current candidate availability.
/ Engineering requirements
A useful OpenStack role description covers service ownership, integration and day-2 operations—not only installation or dashboard familiarity.
Nova services, Placement capacity, KVM/libvirt, image lifecycle, host aggregates and instance performance.
Neutron architecture, OVN/OVS, provider networks, overlays, routing, security groups and network diagnostics.
Cinder backends, Ceph RBD, Glance integration, volumes, snapshots, multipath considerations and storage availability.
Ironic conductor workflows, introspection, PXE/iPXE, out-of-band management, firmware and hardware lifecycle.
Keystone roles, API integration, messaging/database services, deployment automation and control-plane health.
Version compatibility, migrations, HA, telemetry, incidents, capacity and safe rollouts in running clouds.
/ Infrastructure projects
Plan cloud architecture, deployment tooling, availability zones, compute capacity, network design and operational ownership.
Reduce operational risk through monitoring, upgrades, service recovery, runbooks and infrastructure-as-code.
Align Cinder, Ceph RBD, Glance, KVM and VM lifecycle expectations across infrastructure teams.
Support Ironic provisioning, Neutron overlays, OVN/OVS and reproducible diagnostics for complex connectivity.
/ Connected specialist expertise
OpenStack teams often need engineers who understand the boundary between Nova and virtualization, Cinder volume services, and Ceph RBD storage. A useful search brief describes which side of that interface the engineer will own, how failures are observed and what operational changes they can safely make.
Compute placement, libvirt interactions and lifecycle of virtual machines.
Block storage provisioning, volume attachment, performance and availability.
Image delivery, backend integration and storage policies.
Network connectivity, overlay routes, provider networks and tenant isolation.
/ Candidate qualification
We shape technical conversations around the candidate's hands-on ownership, incident experience and ability to work across the infrastructure stack.
Which cloud sizes, deployment patterns, OpenStack releases, hypervisors and workload requirements has the engineer handled?
Can they trace an instance boot failure across API services, scheduling, networking, image delivery and storage attachment?
How do they reason about Neutron overlays, OVN/OVS, Cinder drivers, Ceph RBD and the underlying Linux network?
What tools and practices have they used for deployment, configuration, rolling upgrades, HA, rollback and observability?
How have they worked with SRE, Linux, hardware, security and customer platform teams?
/ Onectus approach
We activate our active engineer network and regional recruiters around your architecture, team structure and requirements. Candidates are evaluated against the role before client interviews. Availability and engagement terms are confirmed for each request.
OpenStack version, components, deployment automation, network architecture, storage backends and responsibilities.
We identify experience within the active talent pool and extend through regional engineering recruiters where needed.
Review production operations, platform incidents, upgrade approaches and OpenStack/Ceph integration.
Confirm availability, remote or on-site requirements, onboarding, security access and working practices.
/ Questions
Yes. Tell us how Cinder, Glance, RBD and your storage network are configured so the search prioritizes engineers who understand those integration points.
Yes. Describe whether the primary ownership is virtualization and placement, tenant networking, or bare-metal provisioning; each requires different operational experience.
Yes. We source for individual augmentation or coordinated infrastructure teams and align practical responsibilities, code review and change procedures with your organization.
That depends on the stack, required seniority, location, interview process and availability. We confirm realistic options for the specific request rather than promising a fixed start date.
Yes. OpenStack roles can be complemented by Linux kernel, Ceph storage, BGP/EVPN networking, virtualization and platform operations specialists.
/ Onectus · TEAMS
Describe your OpenStack services, deployment model, integrations and the responsibilities you need covered. We'll organize a focused technical search.
