Senior Cloud Engineer (OpenStack Platform)
DC Thomson · TELECOMMUTE · Posted Jul 7, 2026
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Role Title: Senior Cloud Engineer (OpenStack Platform)
Location: Remote, UK
About Brightsolid
Brightsolid is a leading provider of hybrid cloud and managed services, delivering secure, sovereign, AI-ready infrastructure platforms across the UK. Our next-generation cloud platform is built on an open, extensible architecture using Canonical’s OpenStack, enabling scalable, resilient, and multi-tenant cloud services for modern workloads including virtual machines, containers, bare metal and AI platforms.
Role Overview
The Senior Cloud Engineer is a senior technical role within the Cloud Engineering function, responsible for the design, implementation, and ongoing operation of Brightsolid’s large-scale OpenStack-based cloud platforms and associated storage systems. You will act as a technical leader within the team, ensuring that platforms are architected correctly for multi-tenant environments while supporting the ongoing evolution of the Brightsolid Cloud platform. This role represents a shift from traditional public cloud and VMware-based platforms towards open-source technologies, with a strong focus on OpenStack, Canonical tooling, and large-scale infrastructure engineering.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Leadership
Provide hands-on technical leadership across OpenStack-based cloud platforms, acting as a subject matter expert in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems.
Support the development of engineering standards, patterns, and reusable designs, while mentoring other engineers within the team.
Ensure solutions are designed to meet both customer and business requirements in multi-tenant environments.
Platform Engineering
Design, implement, and manage Brightsolid’s OpenStack cloud platform, including compute, storage, and networking components.
Work across the full lifecycle of the platform, including build, deployment, optimisation, and scaling of services.
Ensure the platform remains highly available, resilient, and capable of supporting diverse workloads.
Storage and Data Platforms
Design and support large-scale storage platforms underpinning the cloud environment, including high-performance and enterprise storage solutions.
Contribute to the architecture and operation of block, object, and distributed storage services, ensuring performance, durability, and scalability requirements are met.
Automation and Infrastructure as Code
Drive the adoption of infrastructure-as-code and automation practices across the cloud platform.
Develop and maintain deployment tooling, orchestration templates, and automation pipelines to ensure consistent and repeatable platform delivery.
Support a continuous delivery approach for infrastructure services.
Operations and Service Reliability
Support the ongoing operation of the Brightsolid cloud platform, including monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolution of complex issues.
Ensure platform compliance, patching, and lifecycle management activities are performed in line with operational standards.
Contribute to a high-availability, 24x7 service environment.
Technology Strategy and Innovation
Contribute to the evolution of Brightsolid’s cloud platform, working closely with Cloud Engineering leadership and Product Management to enhance capabilities and introduce new technologies.
Support the ongoing transition to open-source platforms and ensure alignment with long-term strategic goals.
Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement
Work closely with Network Engineering, Security Operations, Product Management, and Customer Success teams to deliver integrated cloud services.
Engage with external partners including Canonical to support platform development, deployment, and optimisation.