Lead SRE

HOSTKEY is looking for an experienced Lead SRE to develop the virtualization direction based on OpenStack. This is a strategic direction that requires an independent specialist capable of deploying clusters from scratch, building a migration system, and eliminating complex emergencies.

Company: HOSTKEY

HOSTKEY is a provider of cloud infrastructure and dedicated servers. Actively developing the virtualization direction based on OpenStack.

• Deployment of new OpenStack clusters from scratch in different locations (Kolla / Kolla-Ansible) and their support
• Migration of virtual machines from the current virtualization platform to OpenStack; building a migration system that will work, not one-off transfers
• Elimination of complex infrastructure emergencies and incidents (L3/L4 level), root cause analysis
• Performance optimization: CPU, disk operations, network
• Automation of processes using Ansible, Bash, GitLab CI/CD; writing wrappers
• Working with bare-metal: server configuration, system backup
• Maintaining technical documentation and instructions for L1/L2 engineers
• Participation in architectural decision-making and capacity planning
• Interaction with the hardware assembly/operations team and the direction lead

• Deep production experience with OpenStack: deployment and configuration of core components (Nova, Neutron/OVN, Cinder, Glance, Keystone), including via Kolla/Kolla-Ansible
• Experience migrating virtual machines from other platforms (KVM, Proxmox, VMware, oVirt) to OpenStack
• Expert level in at least one area: networking (SDN, OVS/OVN, VXLAN), storage (Ceph/SDS), or virtualization (KVM/QEMU/libvirt)
• Linux at the level of a confident administrator (Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS): namespaces, cgroups
• Ansible (playbooks/roles) and Bash — fluent
• Understanding of TCP/IP, routing, NAT, virtual network operation
• Experience in diagnosing and resolving complex infrastructure emergencies

Format: remote

Salary Level: 250-350 net

Employment: full-time

🖥 Format

Remote

🕹 Approximate Salary Level:

250-350 net

🕹 Working Conditions:

• Remote work format, full-time employment, 5/2
• Employment according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation or as an individual entrepreneur
• Voluntary medical insurance (DMS) after probation period
• Opportunity to influence the architecture and development of the direction
• Mentor at the start: OpenStack direction lead; access and materials provided on the first day
• Partial compensation for English language training