Infrastructure Engineer – Core Platform

About the role

Join the Core Infrastructure – Platforms team at Kraken to help evolve and scale the OpenStack platform that underpins our next‑generation infrastructure. You will work closely with SRE, networking and security engineers to ensure a stable, scalable and secure foundation for all workloads.

Key responsibilities

• Own and resolve infrastructure support requests on the Nomad platform, removing blockers for engineering teams.
• Operate and improve existing infrastructure while migrating to the next‑generation platform.
• Gain hands‑on experience with OpenStack components (Nova, Neutron, Ironic) and Ceph storage.
• Handle feature requests and support tickets for OpenStack and storage systems.
• Build automation and tooling to reduce toil across both platforms.
• Participate in on‑call rotation to maintain platform reliability.

Required profile

• 3+ years of experience as an Infrastructure, Platform or DevOps Engineer.
• Strong communication skills and a customer‑focused approach to unblock engineering teams.
• Hands‑on experience with OpenStack private cloud or Ceph storage platforms.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems and Linux fundamentals.

Required skills

• OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Ironic)
• Ceph storage (Cinder, CSI)
• Linux command line, processes, networking basics, file systems
• Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, TLS, PKI)
• Scripting/programming: Python, Bash, Go
• Infrastructure‑as‑code: Terraform
• Configuration management: Salt, Ansible
• Containerization/orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes
• Nomad (production workload operation)