Hiring: Principal Private Cloud Architect Company: Lenovo Location: North Carolina, United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-12 07:41:00 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : Ansible, BGP, CI/CD, GitOps, IaaS, Kubernetes, OpenShift, RBAC, S3, Terraform About the job Experience: •15+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure architecture, with 5+ years specifically on OpenStack-based private cloud platforms. Required Skills: •Own the end-to-end architecture of the OpenStack-based private cloud, including: •Core Service Design – scalable deployment of Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Glance, Keystone, and Horizon across HA zones and availability domains. •AI Infrastructure Enablement – GPU passthrough/virtualization, quota isolation, and elastic AI workload scheduling on OpenStack compute nodes. •Multi-Tenant Self-Service Architecture – RBAC, project-based quota control, automated provisioning pipelines, and extensible service catalog. •Security Compliance Controls – integration with identity federation (e.g., LDAP, SSO), key management (Barbican), Neutron firewall policies, and audit trail systems. •Storage Networking Architecture – software-defined storage (Ceph, external backends), and L2/L3 overlay networking, BGP/GRE tunneling. •Hybrid/Edge Integration – support for hybrid Kubernetes stack (e.g., Magnum, OpenShift), S3-compatible storage federation, and cloud bursting scenarios. •Monitoring Operational Visibility – design telemetry, metering (Ceilometer/Gnocchi), centralized logging, alerting, and visual dashboards. Qualifications: •Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field. •Deep expertise in designing and implementing large-scale distributed backend systems, with experience building public cloud or hyperscale cloud platforms preferred. •Comprehensive expertise in virtualization (KVM, SR-IOV), storage backends (e.g., Ceph, iSCSI, NFS), SDN concepts, and overlay networking. •Operational familiarity with GPU virtualization (vGPU, passthrough), AI infrastructure needs, and integration with model serving or data platforms. •Applied hands-on capability in automation tools (Ansible, Terraform), CI/CD for infrastructure delivery, and configuration management. •Knowledge of security and compliance frameworks relevant to private cloud operations (e.g., PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, internal control systems). •Proficient in system troubleshooting, capacity planning, and architecture documentation. •Strongly preferred: experience delivering or operating OpenStack-based platforms in mission-critical enterprise or government scenarios. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!