Sr. Infrastructure Engineer- OpenStack IRONIC

Location: Santa Clara, CA

Employment: W2 Contract

Pay: $60–$70/hr + full benefits

Sustainable Talent is partnering with NVIDIA, a global leader in accelerated computing, AI, and graphics technology, to hire a Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer supporting the Infrastructure, Planning & Process (IPP) Team. This team operates large-scale infrastructure platforms that support hundreds of thousands of automated engineering jobs daily across thousands of servers worldwide. The role focuses on OpenStack operations, bare-metal provisioning, and infrastructure automation.

Responsibilities

• Support OpenStack infrastructure operations across large distributed environments.
• Work with OpenStack Ironic to provision and manage bare-metal servers.
• Troubleshoot PXE boot provisioning workflows (DHCP, TFTP, HTTP, iSCSI).
• Write and maintain automation tools (Python) for infrastructure operations.
• Support and troubleshoot OpenStack services including Nova, Neutron, Glance, Cinder, Placement, and Ironic.
• Manage infrastructure services including MySQL, RabbitMQ, CEPH, HAProxy, and Keepalived.
• Collaborate with SRE, infrastructure, and data center teams to support deployments and system reliability.
• Assist with incident response, bug triage, and system performance investigations.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure Engineering, or Cloud Operations
• Strong experience with OpenStack environments
• Hands-on experience with OpenStack Ironic and bare-metal provisioning (critical)
• Strong understanding of PXE boot processes
• Experience troubleshooting DHCP, DNSMASQ, TFTP, HTTP, and network provisioning
• Proficiency in Python
• Strong Linux (RHEL) systems experience
• Experience with Ansible, Jenkins, and automation tools

Nice to Have

• Experience with large-scale infrastructure or QA environments
• Strong network troubleshooting skills
• Experience supporting data center infrastructure and hardware provisioning
• Familiarity with REST APIs, Bash scripting, and CI/CD pipelines

Sustainable Talent is a M/F+, disabled, and veteran equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer.