Staff Platform Engineer — OpenStack & Storage Infrastructure

Zscaler · Bengaluru · 5+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: Ansible, Go, Python, Swift, Terraform

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Responsibilities:
- We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer — OpenStack & Storage Infrastructure to join our team.
- This is a Hybrid role based in Bangalore (3 days in office), reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering in the Zero Trust Exchange department.
- As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll lead the architecture and build-out of our OpenStack-based private cloud and storage infrastructure for data center environments.
- You’ll define the foundation our products and teams run on — owning reliability, scalability, and security at every layer from compute to block and object storage.
- Own OpenStack architecture and lifecycle across data center environments — design, deploy, and operate Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, and Glance at scale with a focus on high availability and operational resilience
- Lead storage infrastructure design — architect and deliver enterprise-grade block, object, and file storage solutions using Ceph, and integrate them seamlessly within OpenStack and bare-metal environments
- Build and automate DC platform capabilities using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps workflows while defining standards for networking (SDN/OVN), RBAC, multi-tenancy, quotas, and resource isolation
- Drive observability and capacity planning — instrument the full stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging to manage SLOs, track storage utilization, and optimize cost at data center scale
- Champion platform security and operational excellence by enforcing hardening across tiers, managing access controls, troubleshooting complex production issues, and mentoring engineers to continuously evolve the platform
- You are customer-obsessed.
- You build deep empathy for the customer — both internal and external — and anchor your decisions in solving their real-world problems.
- You champion their needs from start to finish, knowing their success is our success.
- You operate with urgency.
- You understand that in a high-growth environment, speed and quality are not mutually exclusive.
- You have a relentless focus on execution and a bias for action, delivering high-impact results quickly to win for the customer and the team.
- Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
- 5+ years in platform/infrastructure engineering with 5+ years operating OpenStack in production at multi-rack, multi-DC scale
- Deep hands-on expertise in OpenStack core services — Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Glance, Keystone — including upgrade strategies, HA configurations, and operational troubleshooting
- Strong storage engineering background — production experience with Ceph (RBD, RGW, CephFS), performance tuning, failure recovery, and capacity management
- Proficiency in Python and Bash/Go for automation, tooling, and OpenStack operator customizations
- Expertise in DC networking (OVN/OVS, SDN, BGP, and VLAN/VXLAN fabric design) and proven leadership of complex infrastructure initiatives with rigorous IaC/GitOps practices
- Experience designing and operating sovereign or regulated DC environments with strict compliance and isolation requirements, or hybrid cloud architectures bridging private and public cloud environments
- Familiarity with bare-metal provisioning (Ironic) and converged infrastructure management
- Contributions to OpenStack or Ceph open source projects, or published technical talks and papers
Qualifications:
- , or hybrid cloud architectures bridging private and public cloud environments
- Familiarity with bare-metal provisioning (Ironic) and converged infrastructure management
- Contributions to OpenStack or Ceph open source projects, or published technical talks and papers

Qualifications

- or hybrid cloud architectures bridging private and public cloud environments
- Familiarity with bare-metal provisioning (Ironic) and converged infrastructure management
- Contributions to OpenStack or Ceph open source projects, or published technical talks and papers

Responsibilities

- We are looking for a Staff Platform Engineer
- OpenStack & Storage Infrastructure to join our team.
- This is a Hybrid role based in Bangalore (3 days in office), reporting to the Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering in the Zero Trust Exchange department.
- As a Staff Platform Engineer, you’ll lead the architecture and build-out of our OpenStack-based private cloud and storage infrastructure for data center environments.
- You’ll define the foundation our products and teams run on — owning reliability, scalability, and security at every layer from compute to block and object storage.
- Own OpenStack architecture and lifecycle across data center environments — design, deploy, and operate Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, and Glance at scale with a focus on high availability and operational resilience
- Lead storage infrastructure design — architect and deliver enterprise-grade block, object, and file storage solutions using Ceph, and integrate them seamlessly within OpenStack and bare-metal environments
- Build and automate DC platform capabilities using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps workflows while defining standards for networking (SDN/OVN), RBAC, multi-tenancy, quotas, and resource isolation
- Drive observability and capacity planning — instrument the full stack with Prometheus, Grafana, and centralized logging to manage SLOs, track storage utilization, and optimize cost at data center scale
- Champion platform security and operational excellence by enforcing hardening across tiers, managing access controls, troubleshooting complex production issues, and mentoring engineers to continuously evolve the platform
- You are customer-obsessed.
- You build deep empathy for the customer — both internal and external — and anchor your decisions in solving their real-world problems.
- You champion their needs from start to finish, knowing their success is our success.
- You operate with urgency.
- You understand that in a high-growth environment, speed and quality are not mutually exclusive.
- You have a relentless focus on execution and a bias for action, delivering high-impact results quickly to win for the customer and the team.
- Demonstrated curiosity and active exploration of AI tools, with a proven history of integrating new technologies to enhance daily workflows and augment problem-solving
- 5+ years in platform/infrastructure engineering with 5+ years operating OpenStack in production at multi-rack, multi-DC scale
- Deep hands-on expertise in OpenStack core services
- Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, Glance, Keystone — including upgrade strategies, HA configurations, and operational troubleshooting
- Strong storage engineering background — production experience with Ceph (RBD, RGW, CephFS), performance tuning, failure recovery, and capacity management
- Proficiency in Python and Bash/Go for automation, tooling, and OpenStack operator customizations
- Expertise in DC networking (OVN/OVS, SDN, BGP, and VLAN/VXLAN fabric design) and proven leadership of complex infrastructure initiatives with rigorous IaC/GitOps practices
- Experience designing and operating sovereign or regulated DC environments with strict compliance and isolation requirements, or hybrid cloud architectures bridging private and public cloud environments
- Familiarity with bare-metal provisioning (Ironic) and converged infrastructure management
- Contributions to OpenStack or Ceph open source projects, or published technical talks and papers

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