Senior Cloud Engineer (OpenStack Platform)

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, Produc…