Staff Systems Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure

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Position: Staff Systems Engineer Cloud Infrastructure

Grade: IT4

Location: Noida/Bangalore

Job Summary

We are seeking a Staff Systems Engineer Cloud Infrastructure to design implement and manage large-scale public private and hybrid cloud platforms with deep expertise in OpenStack and cloud IaaS technologies. This role will serve as a technical authority and architect for cloud infrastructure platforms that power mission-critical workloads across EDA Systems design AI/ML and high-performance computing environments.

The ideal candidate brings hands-on engineering depth strong systems thinking and a proven track record of leading complex cloud platform initiativesfrom architecture through production operationswhile mentoring senior engineers and influencing platform strategy across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Cloud Platform Architecture & Strategy

• Define and implement reference architectures for private cloud (OpenStack) and hybrid/multi-cloud environments.

• Contribute towards architectural decisions for compute storage networking and control plane services at scale.

• Ensure platform consistency scalability resiliency and operational excellence across regions and data centers.

• Evaluate and guide adoption of emerging cloud and IaaS technologies aligned with business and platform strategy.

Private Cloud & OpenStack Leadership

• Serve as a technical expert for OpenStack (Nova Neutron Cinder Keystone Glance Heat Octavia etc.).

• Monitor maintain and optimize OpenStack deployments for performance availability upgradeability and lifecycle management.

• Lead complex upgrades migrations and capacity expansions with minimal customer impact.

• Define best practices for multi-tenant isolation quota management and SLA-driven design.

Public Cloud & Hybrid Cloud Integration

• Design and integrate workloads across AWS Azure and/or GCP alongside private cloud platforms.

• Establish patterns for hybrid networking identity federation workload portability.

• Provide technical guidance on cloud-native and IaaS-based workload placement decisions.

Infrastructure Engineering & Automation

• Develop infrastructure-as-code and automation using tools such as Terraform Ansible Helm and CI/CD pipelines.

• Promote platform standardization self-service provisioning and repeatable operational workflows.

• Perform SRE and operations activities to improve observability reliability and incident response.

Performance Scale & Reliability

• Perform root cause analysis for complex platform issues across compute network and storage layers.

• Optimize cloud platforms for high-performance workloads including AI/ML batch and HPC-style systems.

• Monitor and improve key reliability performance and capacity metrics.

Technical Leadership & Collaboration

• Act as a senior technical authority across cloud infrastructure teams.

• Mentor senior engineers; raise the technical bar across the organization.

• Influence roadmap priorities through deep technical insight and clear communication with engineering and technical leaders.

• Partner closely with security networking hardware and application teams to deliver integrated solutions.

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 8 years of experience in cloud infrastructure distributed systems or large-scale platform engineering.

• Deep hands-on experience with OpenStack in production environments.

• Proven experience designing and operating large-scale private and hybrid cloud platforms.

• Demonstrated leadership on complex cross-team infrastructure initiatives.

Technical Expertise

• Strong knowledge of:

  • OpenStack services (Nova Neutron Cinder Keystone etc.)

  • Linux systems virtualization (KVM) and container platforms (Kubernetes)

  • Software-defined networking (SDN) L2/L3 networking load balancing

  • Distributed storage systems (Ceph object/block storage)

• Experience with:

  • Public cloud IaaS (AWS Azure GCP)

  • Infrastructure automation and IaC

  • CI/CD pipelines supporting platform engineering

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting HPC/EDA workloads on cloud platforms.

• Exposure to bare-metal provisioning hardware lifecycle management and data center operations.

• Familiarity with SRE practices reliability engineering and large-scale observability platforms.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence at senior and executive levels.

Educational Qualification:

BE/BTech/ME/MTech in CS/Electronics or equivalent

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