Staff Private Cloud Engineer
Arm · Posted Oct 28
Semiconductor IP, energy-efficient CPU architecture, and high-performance compute platforms
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About the role
Arm is building a modern private cloud environment to replace application-siloed compute access, with the new platform acting as a core part of the organisation's infrastructure strategy. The greenfield multi-tenant private cloud is based on OpenStack and built with platform engineering principles emphasising automation, APIs and end user experience, supporting large-scale engineering workloads across compute, networking and storage. This role leads the design, build and operation of the platform, owning platform services end-to-end, driving IaC and automation practices, and mentoring engineers.
What you will do
- Design, build and operate OpenStack services across multiple environments.
- Own and drive IaC (Terraform, Ansible) practices by defining reusable IaC modules and patterns for reliable and repeatable builds.
- Develop platform services, APIs (FastAPI) and automation using Python.
- Drive improvements in reliability, scalability and performance.
- Lead incident response, fixing and root cause analysis.
- Work across compute, networking and storage layers.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to improve platform usability.
- Mentor engineers and contribute to technical direction and standards.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Minimum of 8 years relevant experience.
- Strong hands-on experience of key OpenStack Projects (Ironic, Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Swift, OVN/OVS and Glance).
- Strong Ansible/Terraform (or equivalent) and infrastructure lifecycle automation experience.
- Strong experience with Linux internals.
- Strong programming skills in Python and C.
- Experience designing distributed systems and APIs.
- Experience operating large secure production multi-tenant systems at scale.
- Strong fullstack domain expertise across one of the following network, storage or compute.
- Hands-on GitOps driven and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD. FluxCD, etc).
- Experience of working in a DevOps / SRE environment.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience managing hybrid platforms across multiple data centres and clouds.
- Hands-On experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native systems!
- Experience with DPU acceleration!
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Arm
Arm architects, develops, and licenses high-performance, energy-efficient CPU products and related semiconductor intellectual property. Its technology powers over 99% of the world's smartphones as well as a vast array of devices ranging from tiny sensors and wearables to cloud-scale AI supercomputers.
- Industry
- Semiconductors
- Company size
- 8000+ employees
- Founded
- 1990
- Location
- Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
- 2023-09-14IPO$5.23B
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer, Board Member
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Head of Corporate Development
Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Architect
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