The role involves defining the technical strategy for a private cloud platform, integrating OpenStack, automating infrastructure, and providing technical leadership for scalability and performance improvements.
Job Description:
You will define and lead the technical strategy for a private cloud platform based on OpenStack, delivering scalable and reliable infrastructure services for engineering teams.
The platform underpins large-scale engineering workloads and is central to the organisation's infrastructure strategy. The platform is to be built using modern platform engineering principles, with strong emphasis on automation, APIs, and developer experience.
You will operate across teams and functions to drive architectural direction and platform evolution - the remit of the team is to develop the capabilities of the platform as an active participant within the OpenStack community rather than simply consuming and running upstream projects.
Responsibilities:
Required Skills and Experience :
"Nice To Have" Skills and Experience :
In Return:
You will shape the direction of a critical engineering platform.
You will influence organisation-wide technical decisions.
We provide an environment focused on impact, innovation and teamwork.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm, we want our people to Do Great Things. If you need support or an accommodation to Be Your Brilliant Self during the recruitment process, please email [email protected]. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm's hybrid approach to working is centered around flexibility, where we split our time between the office and other locations to get our work done. Within that framework, we empower groups and teams to determine their own particular hybrid working pattern, depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Salary Range:
$249,900-$338,100 per year
We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email [email protected] . To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
You will define and lead the technical strategy for a private cloud platform based on OpenStack, delivering scalable and reliable infrastructure services for engineering teams.
The platform underpins large-scale engineering workloads and is central to the organisation's infrastructure strategy. The platform is to be built using modern platform engineering principles, with strong emphasis on automation, APIs, and developer experience.
You will operate across teams and functions to drive architectural direction and platform evolution - the remit of the team is to develop the capabilities of the platform as an active participant within the OpenStack community rather than simply consuming and running upstream projects.
Responsibilities:
- Define and design the long-term architecture and strategy for multi-tenant Private Cloud.
- Lead the integration of OpenStack across compute, networking and storage systems.
- Develop standards for Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), APIs and automation.
- Drive reliability, scalability and performance improvements across all platform components.
- Provide technical leadership in collaboration with multiple teams and domains.
- Guide platform engineering practices including CI/CD, telemetry and observability.
- Solve complex cross-system challenges in distributed environments and HPC.
- Champion and enable seamless adoption of the new platform.
- Partner with the Internal Developer Platform teams to ensure a 1st class self-service experience.
- Identify and improve workflow friction across multi-disciplinary teams.
- Collaborate with the OSS community to drive upstream feature adoption.
Required Skills and Experience :
- Deep expertise of the OpenStack ecosystem, Linux and distributed systems.
- Strong software engineering background (Python, APIs, systems design).
- Extensive experience with Ansible, Terraform and infrastructure automation.
- Experience with large-scale or multi-region systems and operating at significant scale.
- Deep understanding of networking, storage and Linux systems both physical and software defined.
- Proven track record in influencing technical direction across teams.
"Nice To Have" Skills and Experience :
- Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms.
- Low level debugging, performance and tuning engineering.
- Full stack expertise
- Exposure to IDPs such as backstage, Roadie, etc
In Return:
You will shape the direction of a critical engineering platform.
You will influence organisation-wide technical decisions.
We provide an environment focused on impact, innovation and teamwork.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm, we want our people to Do Great Things. If you need support or an accommodation to Be Your Brilliant Self during the recruitment process, please email [email protected]. To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm's hybrid approach to working is centered around flexibility, where we split our time between the office and other locations to get our work done. Within that framework, we empower groups and teams to determine their own particular hybrid working pattern, depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Salary Range:
$249,900-$338,100 per year
We value people as individuals and our dedication is to reward people competitively and equitably for the work they do and the skills and experience they bring to Arm. Salary is only one component of Arm's offering. The total reward package will be shared with candidates during the recruitment and selection process.
Accommodations at Arm
At Arm, we want to build extraordinary teams. If you need an adjustment or an accommodation during the recruitment process, please email [email protected] . To note, by sending us the requested information, you consent to its use by Arm to arrange for appropriate accommodations. All accommodation or adjustment requests will be treated with confidentiality, and information concerning these requests will only be disclosed as necessary to provide the accommodation. Although this is not an exhaustive list, examples of support include breaks between interviews, having documents read aloud, or office accessibility. Please email us about anything we can do to accommodate you during the recruitment process.
Hybrid Working at Arm
Arm's approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team's needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.
Equal Opportunities at Arm
Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don't discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
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