Job Description
Role Title: Senior Cloud Engineer (OpenStack Platform)
Location: Remote, UK
About Brightsolid
Brightsolid is a leading provider of hybrid cloud and managed services, delivering secure, sovereign, AI-ready infrastructure platforms across the UK. Our next-generation cloud platform is built on an open, extensible architecture using Canonical’s OpenStack, enabling scalable, resilient, and multi-tenant cloud services for modern workloads including virtual machines, containers, bare metal and AI platforms.
Role Overview
The Senior Cloud Engineer is a senior technical role within the Cloud Engineering function, responsible for the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of Brightsolid’s large-scale OpenStack-based cloud platforms and associated storage systems. You will act as a technical leader within the team, ensuring that platforms are architected correctly for multi-tenant environments while supporting the ongoing evolution of the Brightsolid Cloud platform. This role represents a shift from traditional public cloud and VMware-based platforms towards open-source technologies, with a strong focus on OpenStack, Canonical tooling, and large-scale infrastructure engineering.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
- Provide hands-on technical leadership across OpenStack-based cloud platforms, acting as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
- Support the development of engineering standards, patterns, and reusable designs, while mentoring other engineers within the team.
- Ensure solutions are designed to meet both customer and business requirements in multi-tenant environments.
Platform Engineering
- Design, implement, and manage Brightsolid’s OpenStack cloud platform, including compute, storage, and networking components.
- Work across the full lifecycle of the platform, including build, deployment, optimisation, and scaling of services.
- Ensure the platform remains highly available, resilient, and capable of supporting diverse workloads.
Storage and Data Platforms
- Design and support large-scale storage platforms underpinning the cloud environment, including high-performance and enterprise storage solutions.
- Contribute to the architecture and operation of block, object, and distributed storage services, ensuring performance, durability, and scalability requirements are met.
Automation and Infrastructure as Code
- Drive the adoption of infrastructure-as-code and automation practices across the cloud platform.
- Develop and maintain deployment tooling, orchestration templates, and automation pipelines to ensure consistent and repeatable platform delivery.
- Support a continuous delivery approach for infrastructure services.
Operations and Service Reliability
- Support the ongoing operation of the Brightsolid cloud platform, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex issues.
- Ensure platform compliance, patching, and lifecycle management activities are performed in line with operational standards.
- Contribute to a high-availability, 24x7 service environment.
Technology Strategy and Innovation
- Contribute to the evolution of Brightsolid’s cloud platform, working closely with Cloud Engineering leadership and Product Management to enhance capabilities and introduce new technologies.
- Support the ongoing transition to open-source platforms and ensure alignment with long-term strategic goals.
Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement
- Work closely with Network Engineering, Security Operations, Product Management, and Customer Success teams to deliver integrated cloud services.
- Engage with external partners including Canonical to support platform development, deployment, and optimisation.
Key Skills and Experience
Essential
- Strong experience in a senior cloud engineering or infrastructure engineering role.
- Demonstrated experience designing and operating large-scale cloud platforms or distributed systems.
- Proven expertise in Linux-based systems and infrastructure. Strong understanding of infrastructure-as-code and automation principles.
- Experience working in a managed service or service provider environment delivering high availability solutions.
Desirable
- Experience with OpenStack and associated technologies including compute, networking, and orchestration services.
- Experience with distributed storage platforms and data services.
- Familiarity with Canonical tooling and cloud deployment models.
- Experience with automation frameworks such as Ansible, Terraform, or equivalent tooling. Experience supporting multi-tenant environments and large-scale infrastructure platforms.
Behaviours and Attributes
- Strong technical leadership with the ability to influence design and engineering decisions.
- Collaborative approach with the ability to work across multiple technical domains.
- Customer-focused mindset with a strong emphasis on service quality and reliability.
- Ability to operate both strategically and at a detailed technical level.
- Continuous improvement mindset aligned to modern engineering practices.
This role is central to delivering Brightsolid’s next-generation cloud platform, focused on open-source technologies, platform sovereignty, and enabling customers to run modern, scalable workloads on a secure and high-performance infrastructure foundation.
To apply for this role, please follow our online application process and submit a CV and cover letter.
Closing date for applications: 29th July at 12:00noon
