Senior Private Cloud Engineer - Austin, Texas, United States
$161,500 - $218,500 USD yearly
Originally posted 9 July 2026 by the employer.
About the role
This role is responsible for building and operating a greenfield private cloud platform based on OpenStack to deliver scalable and reliable infrastructure services for engineering teams. The platform underpins large-scale engineering workloads across the organization using modern platform engineering principles, automation, and APIs.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and operate a secure OpenStack environment. - Implement systems using Infrastructure as Code (IaC). - Develop automation and tooling to build and extend the platform. - Support and enhance infrastructure CI/CD pipelines. - Monitor, identify, and fix issues across compute, storage, and networking. - Contribute to 24/7 platform reliability, scalability, and performance tuning.
What you'll need
- Experience with Linux systems. - Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible, or other IaC tools. - Experience working in a DevOps / SRE environment. - Programming experience in Python or similar languages. - Understanding and ability to debug compute, networking, and storage in large production environments.
Nice to have
- Exposure to modern cloud native principles. - Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana). - Exposure to large-scale or multi-tenant environments. - Exposure to GitOps driven and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, ArgoCD, FluxCD). - Contribution to open source projects.
Skills: OpenStack, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps / SRE, CI/CD pipelines, Linux systems
This role has been open 120 days — well above the 50-day median for Infrastructure/Platform Software roles.
Infrastructure/Platform Software · Infrastructure Platform
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Open roles in category
1020
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Median days open
50 d
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Median salary
$230k
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See the full market breakdown ▾Category comparison, skills in demand, and who else is hiring
| Metric | Arm Holdings | All employers we track in this specialty (1020 roles · 89 employers) |
|---|---|---|
| Open roles in this specialty | 16 | 1020 |
| Open roles in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family | 83 | 6298 · 145 employers |
| Median days open | 98 d | 50 d (+48 d vs this employer) |
| Median salary (USD postings) | — | $230k |
Skills observed across this category: OpenStack, Infrastructure as Code, DevOps / SRE, CI/CD pipelines, Linux systems
Who's hiring in this category
- NVIDIA · 293 open roles · median 48 d
- Qualcomm · 65 open roles · median 49 d
- AMD · 58 open roles · median 23 d
- Graphcore · 50 open roles · median 97 d
- Intel Corporation · 48 open roles · median 13 d
- Cerebras · 36 open roles · median 87 d
How we counted: 1020 open Infrastructure/Platform Software (Infrastructure Platform) roles from 89 employers tracked in the SemiconductorJobs index, counted 22 Oct 2026. Specialty figures count only roles carrying this exact specialty label, so an employer's related work in neighbouring specialties is not included there — it is counted in the wider Software, Firmware & Systems family row. Figures refresh nightly.