Senior Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack Ironic Specialist)

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI, providing cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers.

About the Role

We're hiring an Infrastructure Engineer (OpenStack Ironic Specialist) to design, operate, and continuously improve the bare metal provisioning platforms that underpin Nscale's infrastructure, sitting within the Infrastructure Engineering team and serving as a specialist escalation point for advanced provisioning and hardware issues.

What You'll Be Doing

Bare Metal Provisioning & Lifecycle Management

• Design scalable and resilient bare metal provisioning platforms with a strong focus on OpenStack Ironic.
• Own the full lifecycle of physical infrastructure, including discovery, enrolment, provisioning, cleaning, and deprovisioning.
• Build and maintain provisioning workflows for a wide range of hardware profiles, including GPU-enabled server platforms.

Automation & Platform Integration

• Manage integrations between Ironic and related OpenStack services such as Nova, Neutron, Glance, Keystone, and Placement.
• Drive automation for hardware onboarding, firmware and BIOS configuration, deployment workflows, and recovery.
• Implement infrastructure automation using infrastructure-as-code and configuration management approaches.

Troubleshooting & Operational Support

Troubleshoot complex issues across provisioning pipelines, PXE/iPXE, BMC interfaces, out-of-band management, and hardware compatibility.