OpenStack Private Cloud Engineer

About this role

Siemens Digital Industries Software is a leading provider of solutions for the design, simulation, and manufacture of products across many different industries. Formula 1 cars, skyscrapers, ships, space exploration vehicles, and many of the objects we see in our daily lives are being conceived and manufactured using our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.


We are seeking a highly motivated and technically skilled OpenStack Private Cloud Infrastructure / Operations Engineer to maintain, monitor, and optimize our enterprise private cloud infrastructure across data centers. This role blends hands-on infrastructure operations with a forward-thinking approach to automation, observability, and service reliability. You will collaborate closely with IT, Security, and Application teams to ensure system uptime, performance, and scalability while helping drive modernization and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) initiatives.


This is a remote position, but the ability to work US Pacific Time Zone hours is required.
Key Responsibilities
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• Provide daily operational support for hypervisors and virtualized storage devices across on-premises and cloud environments to ensure high availability and performance.
• Perform incident response, root cause analysis, and problem management for infrastructure issues.
• Design and implement scalable architectures supporting both current operations and future growth.
• Maintain, enhance, and tune system monitoring and alerting tools to improve visibility and responsiveness.
• Apply system patches, firmware updates, and configuration management changes in a controlled manner.
• Automate routine tasks using PowerShell, Python, or Ansible to increase efficiency and consistency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deploy infrastructure changes in production and test environments.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for critical system support.
• Contribute to capacity planning, performance optimization, and s...