Senior SRE focused on Openstack Networking (City of London)

Within your #OneTeam

As a Public Cloud SRE focusing on SDN (Neutron), you will play a key role in driving the evolution and reliability of our OpenStack-based networking solutions.

• Ensure the performance and scalability of network infrastructure for our Clients.

• Deliver core projects while collaborating with the technical teams.

• Innovate and contribute to the technical roadmap, ensuring alignment with security and scalability goals.

Your main responsibilities :

• Improve and refine both architecture and source code of existing Neutron architecture within our OpenStack infrastructure, ensuring high availability, security and optimization.

• Collaborate with product owners, security and infrastructure teams to deliver aligned and robust solutions.

• Promote DevOps best practices, and maintain high code quality standards. Identify automation and optimization opportunities to enhance stability and performance.

• Continuously monitor emerging technologies and share advancements across the organization.

Your future impact

In 6 months

• Gain a clear understanding of the existing OpenStack environment and internal processes.

• Get familiar with the team\’s workflows, coding standards and deployment pipelines.

• Establish solid working relationships with team members and stakeholders.

• Begin contributing to smaller improvements or optimizations

And in 1 year:

• Contribute to core product roadmap features for existing components

• Maintain high standards of security and compliance across the entire network perimeter.

• Collaborate with the OpenStack community.

• Advanced networking – knowledge about SDN technologies. and underlying protocols (TCP/IP, VLAN, VXLAN, BGP, etc).

• OpenStack knowledge : understanding of architecture with a strong focus on SDN (if possible Neutron – L2/L3, DHCP, LBaaS, ML2 plugins, etc).

• Open vSwitch (OVS) knowledge.

• DevOps experience with CI/CD automation pipelines.

• Hands-on experience managing complex IT infrastructures.

• Collaborative and results-driven mindset.

• English: fluent