Mirantis

Technology

TechnicalSupportEngineer(Kubernetes,Openstack)

$115–155k ~AI est. United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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optimal for mid candidates.

The Brief

“Technical Support Engineer (Kubernetes, Openstack) at Mirantis. Skills: Kubernetes, OpenStack, Linux administration, Troubleshooting. Troubleshoot customer environments. Detect issues”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Troubleshooting; Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

Weekend on call rotation, Holiday coverage

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

High School diploma or equivalent, 3+ years technical customer support, Expert Linux system administration, Expert Linux troubleshooting skills, Knowledge of OpenStack, Knowledge of Neutron, Knowledge of Kubernetes, Knowledge of object storage principles, English speaking and writing ability, DCOPs experience, Firmware upgrades experience, Iso experience, OS experience, Dell experience, Lenovo experience, ST Micro experience, Networking troubleshooting experience, Vlans experience, Ports experience, Spine/leaf config experience, Change management experience, Fortinet experience, Cisco experience, Juniper experience, Python scripting experience, Automation concepts experience, Understanding of networking concepts, Understanding of networking protocols, Alert management experience, Standard Operating Procedure generation, Good knowledge of virtualization solutions, Good knowledge of network storage solutions, Good knowledge of distributed storage solutions

Nice to Have

Four year college degree preferred, Kubernetes experience, Openstack frameworks experience, TOR switching experience, Databases experience, Message brokers experience, Configuring monitoring tools, Customizing monitoring tools, Extending monitoring tools, Working configuration management tools

What You'll Do.

Troubleshoot customer environments

Reproduce customer issues

Provide information to development

Discuss customer issues

Route issues to teams

Participate in on call rotation

Provide holiday coverage

Communicate with customers

Provide status updates

Guide customers through troubleshooting

Guide customers through resolution

Troubleshoot server issues

Troubleshoot DCOPs issues

Perform Firmware upgrading

Troubleshoot ST Micro

Troubleshoot DC networking asks

Troubleshoot DC networking upgrades

Triage networking asks/upgrades

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Work closely with development team

Communication Scope

Customer communication; Status updates

Full Job Description

Mirantis is the Kubernetes-native AI infrastructure company, enabling organizations to build and operate scalable, secure, and sovereign infrastructure for modern AI, machine learning, and data-intensive applications. By combining open source innovation with deep expertise in Kubernetes orchestration, Mirantis empowers platform engineering teams to deliver composable, production-ready developer platforms across any environment—on-premises, in the cloud, at the edge, or in sovereign data centers. As enterprises navigate the growing complexity of AI-driven workloads, Mirantis delivers the automation, GPU orchestration, and policy-driven control needed to manage infrastructure with confidence and agility. Committed to open standards and freedom from lock-in, Mirantis ensures that customers retain full control of their infrastructure strategy. The Technical Support Engineer is a mid-level role responsible for maintaining the reliability and performance of customer environments remotely and supporting any Mirantis Opensack/k0s layers they run along with it. The ideal candidate brings hands-on Linux administration experience, with the ability to diagnose and resolve system-level issues efficiently. A solid working knowledge of Kubernetes and Openstack is desired — including cluster operations, components workload management, and troubleshooting containerized environments. Main Responsibilities: * Proactively/Reactively troubleshoot customer environments based on Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes, networking and other cloud technologies, detect, report and resolve issues. Alert Management. * Learn and troubleshoot MOSK (Mirantis Openstack on Kubernetes) * Resolve and Handle/Triage IaaS related needs in customer datacenters. * Reproduce customer issues in labs where needed, confirm bug reports, provide detailed information to the development team. * Work closely with the development team: discuss customer issues, suggest improvements, fix product bugs, etc. * Own escalations end

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