Senior Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack Ironic Specialist)

Role description

Role Overview

We're hiring an Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack Ironic Specialist) to design, operate, and continuously improve the bare metal provisioning platforms that underpin Nscale's infrastructure. This role sits within the Infrastructure Engineering team, which is responsible for the design, implementation, operation, and ongoing improvement of the infrastructure stack supporting both internal and customer-facing services.

What You Will Do

Design scalable and resilient bare metal provisioning platforms with a strong focus on OpenStack Ironic. Own the full lifecycle of physical infrastructure, including discovery, enrolment, provisioning, cleaning, deprovisioning, and hardware state management.

Why It Might Be a Fit

Strong experience operating Linux systems and troubleshooting production infrastructure. Strong specialist knowledge of OpenStack Ironic and the surrounding provisioning ecosystem.

Requirements

• Strong experience operating Linux systems and troubleshooting production infrastructure
• Strong specialist knowledge of OpenStack Ironic and the surrounding provisioning ecosystem
• Strong understanding of bare metal provisioning concepts including PXE/iPXE, DHCP, TFTP/HTTP boot, BMC technologies, RAID configuration, firmware management, disk imaging, and node lifecycle states
• Strong experience with out-of-band management technologies such as Redfish, IPMI, or vendor management interfaces
• Strong experience designing and building automation for physical and virtual infrastructure using tools such as Ansible
• Strong scripting skills in Python and Bash
• Experience troubleshooting complex provisioning and hardware integration issues across server, network, and management layers
• Experience operating infrastructure at scale with a focus on reliability, repeatability, and operational safety
• Ability to collaborate across infrastructure, support, and architecture teams to solve complex technical problems
• Experience contributing to or working closely with upstream open-source communities, particularly OpenStack, Ironic, Metal3, or related infrastructure projects, is highly desirable

Benefits

• Highly competitive US compensation package (base + bonus + equity)
• Flexible paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan participation
• Medical, dental, vision