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Principal OpenStack Architect

Job ID 2025-14207 Date posted 04/12/2025 Location Cambridge, United Kingdom Category IT
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Job Overview:

Arm is scaling a large, multi-region OpenStack private cloud for HPC and engineering workloads across existing HPC environments. This role is an architecture partner for the private cloud platform leadership team, shaping decisions across compute, network, storage, scheduling, security, automation, and operations.

OpenStack experience is crucial. HPC or high-performance infrastructure and broad Linux, data-centre, network, storage, automation, reliability, security, and public-cloud judgement matter. Semiconductor experience is useful, not required.

The role combines technical influence, mentoring, teamwork, trust-building, clear decisions in ambiguity, and strengthening the Engineering IT architecture capability. People-management experience or interest in that path is welcome.

Responsibilities:

  • Shape the OpenStack private cloud architecture across control plane, bare metal, compute, network, storage, scheduling, identity, observability, security, automation, and operability.
  • Partner with platform, security, network, operations, supplier, and workload teams to make clear architecture choices, review tradeoffs, and remove blockers.
  • Translate HPC, engineering, and enterprise workload needs into platform roadmap input, capacity and performance guidance, and integration patterns for schedulers, APIs, Terraform, CI/CD, and developer workflows.
  • Review designs for reliability, resilience, cost, supportability, security, SLOs, and multi-region scale.
  • Mentor engineers and architects, strengthen architecture practice, and support a collaborative technical leadership culture.
  • Evaluate OpenStack, public cloud, platform engineering, SRE, automation, and infrastructure patterns; guide proofs of concept into production-ready standards.

Required Skills and Experience :

  • Significant production OpenStack private cloud architecture experience.
  • HPC/HTC or large technical workload experience, including schedulers, tooling, licensing, data flows, performance, or capacity forecasting.
  • Linux, distributed systems, data centres, public cloud, platform engineering, Terraform, Ansible, Python, APIs, CI/CD, and Git workflows.
  • Architecture influence: judgement, communication, mentoring, facilitation, team alignment, reliability, observability, SRE, and security awareness.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience :

  • OpenStack services such as Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Cinder, Swift, Keystone, Glance, Octavia, Manila, Barbican, CloudKitty, or OVN/OVS; plus Ceph, NetApp, InfiniBand, DPU, high-performance networking, Kubernetes, Backstage, Spacelift, or Terraform Enterprise.
  • EDA, semiconductor engineering, GPU, accelerator, or AI infrastructure experience; OpenStack community work, engaging suppliers, private cloud migrations, or people development experience.

In Return:

We are proud to have a set of behaviours that reflect our culture and guide our decisions, defining how we work together to defy the ordinary and shape the extraordinary.

Our 10x mindset guides how we engineer, collaborate, and grow. Understand what it means and how to reflect 10x in your work:https://careers.arm.com/en/10x-mindset

Please note that a relocation package (including visa sponsorship support) is available for this role, for candidates who require it.

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Hybrid Working at Arm

Arm’s approach to hybrid working is designed to create a working environment that supports both high performance and personal wellbeing. We believe in bringing people together face to face to enable us to work at pace, whilst recognizing the value of flexibility. Within that framework, we empower groups/teams to determine their own hybrid working patterns, depending on the work and the team’s needs. Details of what this means for each role will be shared upon application. In some cases, the flexibility we can offer is limited by local legal, regulatory, tax, or other considerations, and where this is the case, we will collaborate with you to find the best solution. Please talk to us to find out more about what this could look like for you.

Equal Opportunities at Arm

Arm is an equal opportunity employer, committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and colleagues. We are a diverse organization of dedicated and innovative individuals, and don’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

Salary Range:

£168,300 - £227,700 per year

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