OpenStack Solution Architect

Salary: £43,500 - 74,500 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience designing and delivering enterprise OpenStack environments.
• Strong infrastructure engineering background.
• Experience building OpenStack platforms from greenfield.
• Linux systems engineering experience.
• High Availability (HA) and resilient infrastructure design experience.
• Networking, storage and virtualisation expertise.
• Infrastructure as Code experience using Ansible and/or Terraform.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Desirable: Ceph.
• Desirable: Kubernetes.
• Desirable: KVM.
• Desirable: Open vSwitch (OVS) / OVN.
• Desirable: Neutron, Nova, Keystone, Glance, Cinder and Heat.
• Desirable: Secure by Design experience.
• Desirable: Automation and CI/CD experience.

Responsibilities:

• Design and architect a production-ready OpenStack environment from scratch.
• Define the target architecture and technical roadmap.
• Challenge existing technical approaches and introduce industry best practice.
• Work alongside engineering teams through design, build, deployment and support.
• Deliver a highly available, resilient and scalable private cloud platform.
• Embed Secure by Design principles throughout the solution.
• Drive automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Produce architecture documentation, standards and technical designs.
• Provide technical leadership throughout the project lifecycle.

Technologies:

• Ansible
• Architect
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• Ceph
• Support
• KVM
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• OpenStack
• Terraform

More:

We are offering a 6-month initial contract for a Solution Architect with deep OpenStack expertise to lead the design and delivery of a greenfield private cloud platform. This is an inside IR35 hybrid role with 1-2 days per week on site, with flexibility depending on your location. You will join a high-profile programme with the autonomy to shape the architecture, influence technical direction, and help deliver a modern enterprise-scale OpenStack environment from the ground up.

last updated 30 week of 2026